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IaaS specialist starts fifth datacentre ahead of schedule.

IT infrastructure provider Revera says that a government contract win has pushed forward the construction of its fifth datacentre by about six months.

Both companies who won government infrastructure-as-a-service supplier contracts will build multi million dollar data centres.

Revera has started work on a $40 million structure in Wellington and Datacom, majority owned by NBR Rich Lister John Holdsworth, will begin work on a $30 million centre in Hamilton early next year.

New Wellington facility for government IT supplier.

Revera says work has started on its new $40 million datacentre, in Wellington.

The company has been named as a computer infrastructure supplier to the government agencies over the next 10 years.

Computer company Revera will give the Wellington economy a boost by spending $40 million building a data centre in Trentham, Upper Hutt, which is likely to become home to many government computer systems.

Revera and Datacom have won cloud computing tenders from the government in its plans to build data center in various places in New Zealand. The companies are all set to construct multi- million dollar data centers.

As with fellow tender winners Datacom, infrastructure providers Revera are to open a new data centre, as they prepare to take up a 10-year contract to supply Infrastructure as a Service to government agencies.

Companies to build tier-three facilities in Wellington and Hamilton, New Zealand

New Zealand data centre providers Revera and Datacom are set to build new tier-three facilities after being awarded infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) contracts by the NZ government as part of a bid to reduce IT costs.

Work has commenced on the new Wellington facility

Revera has announced that it has commenced work on a new $40 million datacentre in Wellington.

The datacentre, named ART (Alexander Road, Trentham), is currently being built on a 4,000 square metre site in Upper Hut’s Alexander Industrial Park and will be a Tier-3 facility built to the TIA 942 global standard, satisfying the IL3 Structural rating for withstanding earthquake shock.

Negotiations over infrastructure as a service between the Department of Internal Affairs and IBM are continuing as DIA announces it has signed supplier contracts with Datacom and Revera.

At least eight agencies to benefit initially from infrastructure on-demand.

The New Zealand Government has appointed Datacom and Revera to underpin an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product available to at least eight agencies.