We’re proud to announce that we’re sponsoring and attending the DevOps Down Under 2011 event that’s being held in Melbourne on Friday the 22nd – Saturday 23rd of July.

Check out the event details here – http://www.devopsdownunder.org/

We’ll be attending the event, so please come and say hello if you’re there!

CloudCentral is proud to announce that we are expanding our cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to the new Equinix SY3 International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data centre in Sydney. CloudCentral will commence offering services from the Equinix SY3 data centre on the 1st of August 2011. It will continue to provide services from its existing Canberra availability zone located in the TransACT data centre.

CloudCentral’s multiple availability zones enable customers to deploy highly available solutions across locations. Having a presence in Canberra and Sydney will also provide CloudCentral customers flexibility to locate latency-sensitive websites as close to their target customers as possible.

The new alliance and cloud computing location differentiates CloudCentral from its competitors, especially those without an Australian data centre presence. CloudCentral’s dual site offering is in stark contrast to existing competitive offerings. It is important to us that our availability zones are located in secure, reliable and network-rich data centres and operating two data centres is an integral part of our business continuity strategy.

From August 1, CloudCentral will be the only provider of true pay-as-you-grow, on-demand cloud infrastructure services from multiple Australian eastern seaboard data centres that are on the whole-of-government Data Centre Facilities Panel with a guarantee that all data will be retained within Australia.

CloudCentral will offer customers connectivity into the Sydney availability zone at speeds of up to 10 gigabits/second via agreements with several leading Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

CloudCentral has been announced as the ACT state winner of the start-up company category in the AIIA 2011 iAwards, jointly hosted by the Australian Computing Society (ACS) and Australian Internet Industry Association (AIIA).

CloudCentral received its award at the iAwards luncheon held in Canberra yesterday. Selection was based on the inspiring nature of the nomination and fulfilling various criteria.

“The 2011 iAwards field has been very strong in ACT,” said AIIA CEO Ian Birks. “There has been a trend of continual improvement in the field of iAwards contenders over the past few years, and we are now seeing world class technology innovators such as CloudCentral consistently emerging at the local level.”

Unlike other cloud computing players, CloudCentral is 100% focused on providing superior cloud solutions to customers. As a pure play “Infrastructure as a Service” provider, CloudCentral’s business has been built from the ground up with the sole intention of delivering the best cloud computing in Australia.

Over 17 years, the iAwards has become the premier technology awards platform in Australia delivering the most comprehensive awards program in the technology industry today. The iAwards are judged by industry, for industry and provide achievements with public recognition that extends across the ICT sector to government, community and beyond.

Please visit www.iawards.com.au for more information.