Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the Department of Defence’s delayed migration from Global Switch’s Sydney data center. The Prime Minister said the department's 'most sensitive’ data has already been moved out of the Switch-owned facility in Ultimo, Sydney, and relocated to a dedicated facility, and that work is ongoing to move sensitive and unclassified data.
The Defence department made plans to make migrate from the Switch facility into its own data center in 2017 after Chinese steel giant Shagang made its first investment in Global Switch, becoming a potential security risk. The original plan – estimated to cost AU$200m (US$151m) – was to leave by the time the contract expired in 2020. However, the department extended its tenure in the facility in an AU$53.5 million (US$41.2 million) deal in October last year after the migration plans were delayed due to the scale of the undertaking, with the new contract running until September 2025....MORE
