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good example of this is the recent announcement by the government of New South Wales that by 2017 it will no longer use any data centre space with less than a 4.5-star rating .
It has been a rewarding journey . Lee Stewart likes to differentiate Fujitsu from other data centre operators by the customers , whose interests he puts first . “ Our industry often gets bogged down in the technical detail and tends to lose sight of the big picture , the overall transparency and assurance for our customers , which is a big driver .”
He has been working on a major new report , the Australian SMARTer2030 Report , jointly produced by Fujitsu and Telstra , Australia ’ s largest telecoms company . This concludes among many other things that as ICT becomes less expensive and more accessible , billions more people around the world will become connected by 2030 improving their income potential and wellbeing , and that even in Australia there is significant opportunity for ICT to deliver substantial social benefits , equalising access to services
and allowing full participation in society , regardless of location .
The report speaks of the broad effects of ICT on the human race , but it should never be forgotten that every transaction , every communication , every search and every automated response is touched by many data centres . It ’ s in everyone ’ s interests to achieve monumental levels of upscaling in a sustainable manner . www . fujitsu . com / au 85