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The National Bank of Australia (NAB) will launch a new data centre in Australia Victoria next week.

The facility is located in Green Park and was built by Digital Real Estate. With a floor area of 1000 square metres, it is planned to save the bank $22 million by reducing business costs over time. Digital Realty handed over the keys to NAB three weeks ago.

With its existing data centres in Knox and Victoria, NAB plans to consolidate more than 20 data centres of different sizes in Australia. The bank also wants to retire its aging data centre in East Melbourne.

The new facility will improve the bank's ability to process, store and analyze large amounts of customer and transaction data.

All of this is part of NAB's multi-billion dollar IT transformation strategy.

The bank's data center assets will not migrate to the new data center until the fourth quarter of 2013, as NAB will take months to install and test the new facility.

The new data center is connected to two network switches and two grid power supplies.

It will house NAB's private cloud environment, which will be provided by IBM. The cloud will host many internal applications, including collaboration tools. The environment is in the final stages of deployment.

According to NAB,"Strategic virtualization will increase server utilization from 12 percent to 60 percent, or from 12 cents to 60 cents per dollar. "

Using energy-efficient technologies, including free-air cooling, NAB will also reduce its carbon footprint by 3200 tons.

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