NZ awards IaaS contracts

The National Business Review reports.

Four companies were on the shortlist for the tender. IBM and Telecom's IT and telco services division, Gen-I were the other two.

IaaS involves cloud computing and data centre services, allowing an organisation to have computer power on-tap, via the Internet, rather than relying on in-house servers.

Datacom and Revera will supply government agencies with computer servers and storage systems hosted in the companies' data centres, Telecom Paper reveals.

Datacom will build a $30 million data centre in Hamilton after it was selected alongside fellow New Zealand-owned company, Revera to supply computer infrastructure to government agencies over the next 10 years, Stuff.co.nz says.

COO Steve Matheson says Datacom had considered building in Wellington, but had decided against that because of the earthquake risk. The Hamilton centre will open early in 2013, and will operate alongside Datacom's Orbit data centre in Albany, Auckland, which opened in 2009, and in which it has now invested $40 million.