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Ahead of its IPO, Australia's Link Group has re-signed with Fujitsu in a five-year deal that will see the Japanese conglomerate provide managed infrastructure services to the financial services firm.

Intralinks will be opening its first Australian datacentre in an aim to service industries that have to comply with data sovereignty regulations and laws.

ASG Group has inked a AU$23.8 million deal with the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development in a minimum five-year managed services support contract.

It has been just over nine months since Equinix opened its ME1 facility, and the company is now looking into expanding its capacity.

US-based online marketing and analytics company LivePerson has opened datacentres in Sydney and Melbourne, motivated in part by Australia's big four banks wishing to have their data hosted locally.

NextDC has secured a 'critical and sensitive' in nature three-year deal to deliver its datacentre services to the federal government.

Apple has reportedly used new datacentre space to meet the requirements of a personal data law which came into force this month.

Equinix has announced its acquisition of Tokyo-based Bit-isle, which will increase the total datacentres the company owns in Japan to 12.

IT consultancy firm ASG has been awarded a AU$9 million two-year managed services deal with the Victorian Department of Education and Training, off the back of its AU$9.5 million FY15 net profit.

Brisbane-based datacentre-as-a-service company, NextDC, has signed a AU$1.4 million deal with the Australian Electoral Commission.

Project aims to develop the first computer with the power to perform a billion billion calculations in one second.