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The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. HP is building a second data center on New Zealand's North Island, in a small farming town in Waikato.
The multi-million-dollar 'next-generation' data center will provide active/active configuration with HP's Mt Wellington data center, under an hour away in Auckland.
HP hopes to offer new high-tech infrastructure services to the region through its new data center, which is expected to be operational early next year (2012).
The investment is part of a much larger US$1bn transformation of the company's legacy assets that is seeing a range of new facilities built around the world. HP recently announced a new Sydney build as part of this (see our related links below).
HP is especially keen to target growth opportunities offered through cloud computing services.
Similar to its other builds, HP converged Infrastructure is being used in the New Zealand data center, integrating server, storage, networking and management resources into a modular and scalable design. It will also use scalable power and cooling solutions.
The facility is also being pitched as energy efficient using HP's Carbon Emissions Management Service which reports on energy consumption and carbon use.
Automation will also feature heavily as well redundancy, according to HP New Zealand country manager for enterprise services Gavin Greaves.
"Having a sustainable infrastructure that combines a modern platform with the services capability of enterprise services means customers can concentrate more on their business and less on managing their IT,"Greaves said.