US company Equinix is planning to establish a third data centre in Perth, which it said was becoming Australia's second digital gateway to international markets.
Osborne Park-based IT services company DC Two is planning to expand its operations by reopening a tier three data centre that has already had a $10 million investment by its previous tenant.
Global IT company Atos expects to triple the size of its Western Australian workforce after being awarded one of the state government's largest ICT contracts.
With 1100 staff across Australia, annual revenue nudging $200 million and more growth on the way, Perth-based Kinetic IT is a good case study for privately-owned companies.
Perth-based company Kinetic IT has broken into the federal government market for the first time after signing two contracts with the Department of Defence worth a combined $91 million.
US company Equinix has announced plans to expand its Shenton Park data centre while seeking to differentiate itself from the likes of NEXTDC and Fujitsu, which are also upgrading their Perth data centre operations.
Fujitsu has committed to spend up to $17 million upgrading its Malaga data centre, where it is aiming to gain a competitive edge by securing the highest level of industry certification.
SPECIAL REPORT: Three data centre operators, including new player Pier DC, are set to be big winners from the state government's GovNext plan, though a fourth operator is seeking to spoil the party.
The state government has shortlisted six companies in the latest phase of its GovNext project to outsource its information and communications technology.
SPECIAL REPORT: The ubiquitous influence of the internet in modern business has brought an uptick in investment in Perth's data storage capacity, and into new high-speed subsea cables.
Almost 80 contract variations worth more than $81 million tripled the cost of a Department of Health central computing services contract, with issues including more than 60 per cent of data racks going unused, the auditor general revealed today.
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has chosen its Malaga data centre to be the first in Australia to be upgraded to tier IV certification, as part of a drive to improve its Oceania operations unveiled today.
A defining milestone in competing efforts to build a subsea telecommunications cable from Perth to Singapore may be imminent, with one of the players close to snookering the opposition.
Amcom Telecommunications has snapped up data centre operator aCure Technology for $14.3 million as demand for new information technology services grows.
THE founders of Kinetic IT had little time to learn the ropes when they entered the information technology market almost 15 years ago, immediately facing off against industry heavyweights CSC, IBM
WA's electricity generator Verve Energy has signed a multi-million dollar information technology contract with Fujitsu to manage the company's customer service.
State electricity generator Verve Energy and Fujitsu has struck a long-term partnership agreement over the creation of an 'energy trading management system'.