Stulz Australia has announced the appointment of Oper8 Pty Ltd as the exclusive distribution partner in Australia and the Pacific Islands for its new range of Stulz Micro Data Centre (MDC) solutions.
Marketed as Stulz MDC Enabled by Oper8, the data centre in a rack solution provides organisations with a data centre as a service (DC-a-a-S) offering, combining Stulz world-class mission critical cooling and best practices in MDC design for the High Performance Computing Cloud with Oper8’s cloud, communications and managed services.
The Stulz MDC is an all-in-one solution that incorporates the rack, cable management, cooling, UPS, power, environmental monitoring and fire suppression into one unit.
The solutions are available in single, double and four rack configuration as well as bespoke options. The agreement with Oper8 marks Stulz Australia’s first formal channel partnership in the region, and reflects the intent of both companies to align micro data centre solutions with distributed technology and communications solutions.
It also comes amid a flurry of activity in this developing market, where organisations increasingly require local compute and storage capacity at ‘the edge’ where the users are located.
Stulz Australia managing director, John Jakovcevic, said partnering with Oper8 was an easy decision because of their market knowledge, experience in IT, and overall complementary skills.
For Mike Andrea, the managing director of Oper8, the agreement with Stulz Australia closes out a two-year research project, which sets the industry standard for MDCs.
“Oper8 is proud to partner with Stulz in this exciting new area of growth across the data centre industry. This is the right product at the right time in an industry seeking local innovation; as-a-service models with compute and storage capacity in their own dedicated micro data centres," Andrea said.