BlackBerry is now considering to establish an Austrian Data Center as it continues efforts to upgrade its infrastructure reliability across the Asia-Pacific region.

In the Asia-Pacific region, there is a lot of lower levels of network connectivity, which ends up meaning that creating datacenters in those countries will be allowing businesses and browsing sites to actually connect to them at higher speeds.  It will also help improve latency, application adoption, and performance.

The steps aren’t so easy as RIM needs to go through changes in its architecture.  It was working on a single database contruct for the region before and now needs to be adjusted otherwise.

“For me to go into Singapore or into Australia, I have to break that database construct up: that’s what’s being developed. Our data application is changing,” Bienfait said.

The testing of the new architecture construct will be undertaken in June or July and Bienfait believed it would be deployable by the end of the year, at which point she would start picking sites for deployment, depending on economics and performance.

Although Bienfait could not specify which sites she had been considering for datacentres, she did say that Australia stood in a good position.

“If we see a real demand from the marketplace, which we are seeing (that’s why we’ve got an office here) then you can almost conclude you’re going to be here,” she said.

Having datacentre operations in Australia would mean running a lot of processes and the teams to support them. “It’s a good thing for any economy,” Bienfait said.

Source: ZDnet

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