GlobalSwitch
GlobalSwitch bills itself as “the leading provider of highly resilient carrier and cloud neutral data centre space throughput Europe and Asia Pacific”.
The company has announced that it has commenced construction of the last two stages of its Sydney East facility, “following a pre-commitment from a leading cloud provider”. The new facility is located right next to its existing Sydney West facility, on the edge of the Sydney CBD.
“Our facilities are highly connected with our Sydney campus’ location on the edge of the CBD giving it a carrier network density and low-latency environment difficult to replicate in data centres further from the CBD,” says Damon Reid, GlobalSwitch managing director, Sydney.
GlobalSwitch is focused on providing power and space in a secured and well--networked facility. “We do not dilute that focus by attempting to provide solutions best left to subject matter experts such as managed services, cloud or telecommunications services,” says Reid.

GlobalSwitch is also focused on providing customers with economies of scale by consolidating their data centre requirements within a single facility. “The scale of our facilities – and in particular our Sydney campus – provides a diverse ecosystem that greatly assists our customers to operate their data centres and data requirements more cost effectively than if they were diluted across numerous smaller data centres,” Reid says.
Reid says that while GlobalSwitch doesn’t have a formal channel program, the company does work closely with customers “where appropriate to assist them on opportunities they may be working on”. He said that several reasonably large commitments were secured last year as a result of this kind of cooperation.
Reid’s advice for what to focus on when choosing a provider is to look at matching supplier expertise with your specific needs. “This is critical to ensuring you contract into a relationship that can support you through the many years that you will be them.”
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