QUEENSLAND, Australia – 9 December 2024 – NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, has announced that its strategic partnership with Australian data centre and cloud services group, iseek has grown exponentially, with NetApp now managing 5X the volume of data compared to when they first partnered together eight years ago, as enterprises, governments and industry seek to capitalise on and protect their most valuable asset – their growing stock-pile of business-critical data. Over the past eight years, the partnership between the two infrastructure leaders has blossomed.

iseek focuses on building and operating highly resilient data centres that protect its customers from disruptive events, from power outages through to cyclones, while NetApp provides industry-leading data infrastructure products and services that underpin the company’s go-to-market offerings.

The organisations share a bond in servicing customers that depend on continuous availability for high performance applications. Both have a mission to maximise their customers’ operational efficiency, especially in a world of constrained budgets.

“Now, more than ever, business is growing rapidly due to organisations implementing Artificial Intelligence technologies and complex workloads into their networks, which is driving demand from customers,” Mark Fioretto, Managing Director of NetApp Australia & New Zealand, said.

“Organisations are also looking into new approaches to manage their data, but importantly to optimise spend. iseek is unique in that it provides both cloud services and physical infrastructure and provides its customers with flexibility to manage costs and avoid pricing lock-ins.”

With huge data breaches occurring across the globe, both organisations recognise the need for highly secure and highly robust data centre services for all sizes and types of businesses, but iseek CEO Scott Hicks said that the alliance between NetApp and iseek had brought unique benefits to regional and remote Australia.

“This is especially true in areas like regional Queensland where data efficiency, data protection and security are at risk from extreme weather events and where the sheer isolation was once a barrier to business,” Mr Hicks said.

“iseek specifically built its fourth data centre in Townsville in 2019 due to the increasing demand to support governments, mining, education, enterprises and agriculture with a highly secure, disaster and future-proof facility that was local and not thousands of kilometres away.

“Having an enterprise class data centre in Townsville has allowed us to leverage our partnership with a global leader like NetApp and deliver cloud services into the region, opening up a new market for iseek and NetApp.”

The iseek-owned and operated North Queensland Regional Data Centre (NQRDC) has become a hub for IT services delivery into rural and remote communities around Townsville, a city of 180,000 people known as the “Capital of the North”. NetApp provides solutions to iseek customers throughout the centre.

“We work together to deliver data efficiency, data protection and security and, importantly, resilience in areas where we have seen extreme weather events, from bushfires to cyclones and flood,” Mr Hicks said.

“Access to iseek’s world-class data centres and cloud services, combined with NetApp’s globally recognised storage solutions, allows regional communities to participate in the global economy, putting them on a par with any state capital-based business.”

NetApp’s Mark Fioretto said that, over the years, the companies’ alliance had become more strategic.

“NetApp supports iseek’s data infrastructure strategies and works with iseek’s sales, operations and technical architects to support them with current workloads and future planning,” Mr Fioretto said.

“To ensure iseek stays ahead of the industry we work to identify market trends and deliver innovative technology solutions and services that deliver maximum value.

“We also support iseek’s investment in sustainability and are pleased to see the rollout of direct liquid cooling solutions, which both reduces costs for our customers and facilitates the next generation of intensive, high-performance computing required for AI and innovative workloads.

“We look forward to many years of partnering to ensure iseek’s customers become more successful.”

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About iseek

Established in 1998, iseek pioneered purpose-built data centres to become a leading digital infrastructure operator and cloud services provider in the Australian market, by focusing on the mid-market, from urban centres to rural and regional areas. The company today offers Enterprise, Defence and Government customers the security, reliability and scale they need to operate and support their own customers and staff in fast-changing business and technology landscapes, through its network of seven data centres across Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Northern Queensland.

Website: https://iseek.com.au/

About NetApp

NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimisation of performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realise your business possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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