Service delivery partner DQA has collaborated with indigenous company Dickerson Digital and Microsoft to launch Australia’s first indigenous sovereign cloud.
DQA said the sovereign cloud, powered by Microsoft Azure and integrated with Azure Orbital, will provide certainty for customers within the public and private sectors requiring higher levels of security and availability.
The project follows the recent investment of Microsoft and the Federal Government of $5 billion in Australia’s cloud computing industries and comes off the back of the recent partnership announcement between DQA and Dickerson Digital.
“Dickerson Digital’s impressive track record of high-value outcomes achieved for private and government organisations give us the perfect ally in developing this critical infrastructure that will truly make meaningful change in Australia’s cloud capabilities and inject this benefit into remote communities,” said DQA CEO Steve Melville.
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The project will upscale organisations’ ability to leverage cloud services. The sovereignty of the solution allows customers to manage data and conduct secure operations in compliance with local laws and to be protected from foreign access.
Dickerson Digital also collaborated with its indigenous partner Gambarra Jaha, who is on track to secure the largest single capital raising by an Indigenous-owned organisation in Australian history, to build and operate the sovereign cloud data centres.
The project’s full vision includes 22 data centres across Australia, two in New Zealand, and two in Tonga.
DQA claimed the solution has already a pipeline of customers from the public and private sectors.