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Battle for the $2b government cloud market heats up

Tom Burton

The battle over the lucrative, $2 billion government cloud market is stepping up, with Canberra Data Centres’ dominant grip on the federal government’s data centre spend set to be challenged by the launch of Macquarie Telecom’s $17 million “bunker” data centre.

CDC operates six data centres at Hume and Fyshwick in Canberra, as well as three large data centres at Eastern Creek in western Sydney.

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Tom Burton has held senior editorial and publishing roles with The Mandarin, The Sydney Morning Herald and as Canberra bureau chief for The Australian Financial Review. He has won three Walkley awards. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.burton@afr.com

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