Brennan to open data centre in lucrative QLD market

Brennan’s managing director, Dave Stevens, told CRN the facility, which officially opens 27 August, is already 50 percent leased with prospective tenants including Terry White Chemists, Australian Water Systems and Bidvest. NSW and Victorian clients have also expressed an interest in leveraging the facility as part of their disaster recovery plans.

“We have made a significant investment in building out our operations in Queensland through our acquisition of iExec and TSA Communications, as well as establishing new corporate headquarters for our Queensland operations,” said Stevens.

According to Stevens, Brennan sees the future of its business in the delivery of solutions to the mid market. “At the heart of this is applications - and the delivery of applications as a Service-as-a-Software or as part of a hosted model is a key strategic direction for Brennan,” he said.

He claimed that all businesses needed a data centre to run their IT infrastructure, but there is no real commercial reason why they should do it themselves. Building or expanding an existing data centre is an incredibly expensive exercise, when requirements such as reduncency, security, fire prevention and rental of space, he said.

“It is also very difficult to get the power required to run it and to scale with the increasing demands. Plus from a service and network perspective, it often makes more sense to look externally. You will often get a better level of service and support and it is a more efficient use of bandwidth to put capacity requirement in the network, not the offices,” said Stevens.

He claimed the Brisbane data centre can be leveraged by clients in other states, with Brennan having a number of clients in Sydney and Melbourne. “We already have an existing data centre in Sydney and possibly will be looking to build a facility in Melbourne,” said Stevens.