Connectivity is the future for business Bricks and mortar no longer make up the infrastructure of business; it’s all about IT, Scott Hicks, former managing director of Adam Internet and now CEO of YourDC, Australia’s biggest data centre, told an audience of business people at Mawson Lakes. YourDC business owners and IT superstars, Scott Hicks and Greg Siegele, former director of Ratbag Games, explained how they have invested $30 million in an innovative data centre in Edinburgh Parks which has the highest levels of security, disaster recover and connectivity in SA. Scott told the capacity audience that information technology now drives business development and competitiveness and it is expanding at a huge rate. "With the NBN rollout and the mass move to cloud computing, SA will soon face a shortage of data storage space and associated infrastructure, so our company has bought a 6000sq/m site at Edinburgh Parks to house the data centre," he said.
Executive director of the company, Greg Siegele, illustrated Bruce Jacobssen from EziCleen talking how the business with Scott Hicks CEO of YourDC. facility has multiple power sources to ensure services do not go down if there is a power disruption. "Organisations can lose millions of dollars because of outages caused by anything from an earthquake (as in Christchurch), to sabotage, a flood, or even a terrorist attack. This can be catastrophic for business. In Adelaide, outages in recent times have caused disruptions that are not acceptable in a digitally based economy." Scott said that YourDC is one of the top-rated data centres in SA and is designed to be an energy efficient operation at every level which brings a cost advantage to customers. Ed
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