CONSTRUCTION was shifting and I could see where Microsoft , Google and others were going . You don ’ t get the opportunity very often in your career to jump into something like that and shape it .”
Since then the market has changed rapidly , especially with large-scale , international operators expanding massively in Sydney and turning their attention to Melbourne . “ If you match Australia to its direct population it ’ s punching well above its weight ,” Cooper says . “ That ’ s something Australia has always done with technology . I think it ’ s a combination of distance and some of the cultural linkages back to Europe and the US . Also aspiration , both at the enterprise level and the individual . If you were to talk to Microsoft or Amazon , the use they see here compared to the population is quite dramatic . NEXTDC has successfully taken part in that and helped it along .”
As a result the company is growing fast – its facility utilisation increased almost a third in the past year , and it ’ s in the midst of expanding data hall space in its first-generation
Jeff Van Zetten
Head of Engineering and Design
Jeff Van Zetten is responsible for the overall design , commissioning , Uptime Institute Tier Certification process , ongoing performance , and energy tuning of NEXTDC ’ s data centres . Prior to joining NEXTDC , Jeff was based in Singapore as the Asia-Pacific technical director for a leading high-performance , buildings technology company . Jeff has experience in onsite commissioning and troubleshooting data centre and major projects throughout Asia , Australia , Europe , North America , and South America . www . nextdc . com 39