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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering establishing an Australian data centre as it continues efforts to upgrade its infrastructure reliability across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Speaking with ZDNet.com.au, the company’s chief information officer Robin Bienfait said she had improved the reliability of the company’s network from 99% when she started in 2007 to 99.7% currently. She is now pushing to reach 99.99%.

For the Asia-Pacific region, with its lower levels of network connectivity and distributed geography, this will mean landing data centres in countries and allowing resident businesses and browsing sites to actually connect to them. This would help latency, application adoption and performance, according to the executive.

Source: ZDNet

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