HP completed Aurora, its latest outsourcing and cloud-services data center in Sydney to serve businesses and government agencies in the region, the company announced Wednesday.

HP is one of the world’s largest IT-services outsourcers with data centers serving clients around the globe. In addition to traditional data center outsourcing, the company has been ramping up its cloud-services play, and new capacity in Sydney will help it further its cloud strategy.

One of HP’s first enterprise-cloud customers to have signed up for services hosted at Aurora is Elders Australia. The company is reportedly going through a transformation program, and its CIO Shaun Hughes said outsourcing to HP was a core part of that program.

“HP’s cloud services will provide us with a robust infrastructure and service delivery model that enables us to scale up for each of our program releases when we are ready to,” Hughes said. “As a result, we can de-risk the legacy development components of our build.”

HP has also already secured more traditional enterprise-services customers for the new site. One of them is Downer EDI Limited, an Australian engineering and infrastructure-management-services company.

HP will build, manage and host Downer’s IT infrastructure at the Aurora data center.

Another customer is Origin, an Australian energy company, will use HP’s services to modernize its IT infrastructure and support expansion of the business.

The multi-million-dollar data center was built with energy efficiency in mind, featuring variable power densities and free cooling.

Earlier this month, at its annual Discover conference in Las Vegas, HP announced an expansion of its cloud play, including the ability of on-premise private clouds it sets up for clients to burst into other companies’ cloud infrastructure, as well as into its own recently launched public cloud.

HP has so far announced publicly only three third-party providers customers can chose to burst into – Amazon Web Services, Latisys and Savvis – but a source at HP told DatacenterDynamics there are more.