The City of Sydney is looking for a new datacentre provider as part of the cities move to a complete infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model.

Sydney council has placed a tender notice for two new datacentre facilities as part of a five year contract with options for future extensions.

The tender notice specifies that the new facilities must provide increased security, 24 hour access, future expansion capacity and green credentials through reduced power consumption.

Sydney city currently operates two data centre facilities, with a new provider needing to establish compatibility with these existing facilities with high speed links between all facilities.

The tendering process is expected to be completed by the end of March.

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