Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new “cloud” computing data centers in the country.<\/p>\n
The world’s biggest software company said on Tuesday it was expanding its Windows Azure business to include a major new region in Australia.<\/p>\n
Data centers, renting out technology resources such as computing power and storage, will be established in the states of New South Wales and Victoria.<\/p>\n
“These two locations will be geo-redundant, offering our customers the ability to back up their data across two separate locations, both within Australia,” Toby Bowers, Microsoft Australia’s Server & Tools Group Lead said on company’s blog site. “We know that providing disaster recovery, while ensuring data sovereignty goals are met, is critical to many of our customers.”<\/p>\n
Such cloud computing, pioneered by Amazon.com Inc, is a fast-growing business for Microsoft and has attracted other big tech names including Google Inc.<\/p>\n
Microsoft claims more than 200,000 Windows Azure customers, but the company does not break out the revenue from it.<\/p>\n
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