In a multi-million dollar agreement, Ipswich City Council, in Queensland, is moving its entire data centre infrastructure to service provider Data#3’s cloud.
The council has signed a flexible pricing model with Data#3 that will enable it to scale its infrastructure as its needs grow. The primary home for ICC’s data will be the facility owned by Data#3 in Ipswich itself, along with a Sydney-based data centre.
The genesis of the deal was the Council’s signing of Data#3 two years ago to outsource its desktop and infrastructure services. The cloud agreement is the culmination of the outsourcing effort.
““This is a very significant agreement for ICC and for Data#3. There are few organisations of ICC’s size in Australia that have embarked on such an innovative datacentre transformation and we’re very respectful of the confidence ICC has shown in our Cloud and in the ability of our team to migrate their datacentre technology to it,” said Data#3 chief John Grant, in a statement.
Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale said the agreement gives the Council greater flexibility and made good financial sense.
The exact dollar figure of the deal was not disclosed.
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