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Reporting to the Data Centre manager you will be responsible for designing IT infrastructure and software solutions to meet business needs for mission critical services.

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Cisco has appointed of Rajesh Rege as Senior Vice President, Data Center, for India and Saarc. In this role, Rege will be responsible for driving and overseeing the company’s overall growth and expansion efforts in the data centre space.

Rege, an IT industry veteran with over 22 years of experience, worked with Alcatel Lucent as Vice President for Global Alliances managing a portfolio of India based partners on a global basis.

Source: CRN

National Australia Bank is considering outsourcing some of its IT infrastructure to technology giant IBM.

NAB spokesman George Wright told ZDNet Australia that the bank had been on the market for IT outsourcers; however a final announcement regarding selection had not yet been made. Wright didn't provide any details on the potential outsourcing arrangement, however, the AustralianIT said that NAB's recent IT catastrophe delayed announcement of the deal.

Source: ZDNet

Tata Consultancy Services has announced that it had won a contract for establishing and managing the State Data Centre for the state of Uttar Pradesh. The SDC will enhance the infrastructure required to consolidate the state level applications and will be interoperable with the existing infrastructure.

With a total investment of about 1.6 billion yuan (S$314 million), the Chengdu Wanguo Data Centre, the largest disaster recovery data centre in Asia, has been formally launched in the west zone of Chengdu High-tech Zone in Sichuan province..

China's disaster recovery system is deployed mainly in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and along the Bohai Economic Belt, while it is in short supply in the western region.

Source: Asia One

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Tokyo Institute of Technology's newest supercomputer, Tsubame 2.0, proves that high-power computing can go hand-in-hand with energy efficiency. The new computer is the second most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world and that's thanks to an administrator who was more concerned with the monthly electricity bill than the cost of the hardware. The latest machine has a performance of 2.4PFlops, which is 15 times that of its predecessor.

National Australia Bank has brought in KPMG to conduct a forensic examination of the processing meltdown that affected millions of customers. The NAB processing system started going belly-up two weeks ago in the early hours of November 25 due to software coding errors. It is understood someone with access to NAB's mainframe systems, either an internal staff member or one of the bank's IT outsourcing partners in India, inadvertently bypassed a piece of code that checks BSBs against addresses.

This video provides a walkthrough of IBM's new data centre, opening 3rd March 2011. This will be a 1500 sq m column-free raised floor data centre, one of the largest (if not the largest) commercially available data centre in New Zealand.

A NZ$80 million investment, the IBM Highbrook data centre is the latest addition to IBM's network of green data centres around the world.

Source: Geekzone

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HCL Infosystems has acquired the formal possession of 2 acres of land for setting up a state-of-the-art facility in Thiruvananthapuram. This land will be used to set up HCL Development Centre and will also be instrumental in setting up specially designed software services and system integration product labs.

-City, a subsidiary of listed I-Bhd, plans to build a second data centre with two towers worth RM300 million. The company would form a strategic alliance with HDC Data Centre to develop the centre and the first tower was expected to be completed in three years, i-City Chief Executive Officer Eu Hong Chew said Thursday.

The first 50,000 square feet data centre was completed a year ago and HDC occupies half the space. It was envisaged that i-City would focus on building aspect of the development while HDC would be responsible for the equipment and facilities, Eu said.

IBM and IG3 announced that they have entered into an agreement, in which IBM will design a green data centre for IG3. IG3 said that it is constructing one of the largest data centres in the Asia Pacific region. The proposed size of the data centre will be approximately 8.5 lakh square feet.

IBM and IG3 also signed a marketing alliance agreement that will focus on the development of managed services offerings as well as joint go-to-market strategies to acquire customers for services such as IT hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Source: CIOL

Leading local data services provider IP-Converge Data Center Inc. debuted on the Philippine Stock Exchange Thursday after raising P190.9 million in fresh funds to put up new data centres in Bonifacio Global City and Cebu.

Wipro said its India, Middle East and Africa IT business arm Wipro Infotech won a 5-year Outsourcing contract from Vasan Eye Care, a unit of Vasan Healthcare Group.

As part of this contract, Vasan Eye Care will outsource its entire IT infrastructure to Wipro, for monitoring and management for during of five years. The scope of service includes entire IT infrastructure management encompassing the complete gamut of data centre management and end user support services.

Source: RTT News

NextDC, the data hosting company founded and run by former Pipe Networks chief Bevan Slattery, has listed on the ASX this morning with the company's shares rising well above the A$1 offer price to hit A$1.47 in early trade.

The float comes just after the company announced it had signed a deal with IT service provider Harbour MSP as its first anchor client in the Melbourne facility, located at Docklands. This facility is scheduled to go online in November 2011, with the Brisbane site set for operation in March 2011. Another Sydney site is expected to go online by March 2011.

National Australia Bank is likely to sell its main data centre in Melbourne to International Business Machines as part of a five-year contract to be signed between the two companies, the Australian Financial Review reported, without saying where it got the information.

As part of the contract, worth several hundred million dollars, IBM will take over management of the bank’s computing infrastructure, according to the report. The deal will also renew IBM’s A$100 million contract to provide desktop services to NAB, signed in 2007, the newspaper said.

Source: Bloomberg

The Japanese unit of US software giant Microsoft, will consider setting up a data centre in Japan for cloud computing services, the president and chief executive officer of Microsoft Co. said. The Tokyo-based subsidiary is trying to provide cloud computing services in Japan through a tie-up with Fujitsu Ltd. to use the latter's data centre, but will study setting up its own ''if necessary,'' Yasuyuki Higuchi said in a recent interview with Kyodo News. It may expand an existing data centre in the Tokyo area for the Hotmail web-based e-mail service, he added.

The Board of Directors of Sinobiomed has announced the acquisition of all data centre assets from Keychain, Ltd, a Hong Kong limited company, specializing in international telecommunications consulting, management and hosting services on behalf of clients with strategic connectivity and network infrastructure requirements in major world cities.

The latest results of the Market Pulse survey of data centre and infrastructure management professionals in Asia shows clear signs of business optimism for 2011. The key findings of the survey, conducted biannually by Emerson Network Power, a leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity, includes the increase of the overall ICT infrastructure project pipeline for the first time since 2008.

Wholesale telecommunications provider, Vocus has launched its new data centre in Alexandria, Sydney. The high-density colocation facility was inherited through the telco’s A$5.9 million acquisition of E3 Networks’ data centre business. Founder of E3 Networks, Jon Eaves, has become the Vocus data centres general manager.

Supporting up to 30kW/128 Amps per rack, the new Sydney facility has a floor space of 400sqm. Data centre managed service provider, Harbour MSP, is one of the first clients of the data centre after signing a A$2 million contract with Vocus.

Source: ARN

Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading cellular service providers has signed a contract with Wipro, a global IT services company. According to this deal, Wipro will support Vodafone Essar with its fixed line telecom services for enterprise business customers.

The data centre services, say experts, will form the backbone of information systems and IT and a group from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay's Gigabit Networking Laboratory have developed an indigenous technology for the first time, which is being adopted by the industry.