Intelligent Data Centres Issue 39 | Page 70

BY BUILDING A PUBLIC CLOUD , WE ALSO SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO START BENEFITTING AUSTRALIANS RIGHT AWAY .
THE EDGE
at a price point sustainably lower than the rest of the market and the company immediately set about putting its idea into practice .
“ Immersion cooling clearly had a lot of long-term potentials , but by building a public cloud , we also saw an opportunity to start benefitting Australians right away ,” said Rosenfield .
Solution
Pursuing its vision of a sustainable public cloud , Firmus chose to build its data centre in Tasmania , an island powered exclusively by renewable energy . With the data centre coming to life , the next step was building the cloud infrastructure .
“ From the outset , open source was a must and OpenStack was our platform of choice ,” recalls Rosenfield . “ Our team is passionate about the industry and we believe that open source keeps the momentum going in critical projects like this one .”

BY BUILDING A PUBLIC CLOUD , WE ALSO SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO START BENEFITTING AUSTRALIANS RIGHT AWAY .

To help design and deploy its OpenStack cloud , Firmus needed a partner that understood the scope of what it was trying to achieve , and possess extensive technical expertise . Of all the vendors that the company evaluated , Canonical stood out as the most impressive .
“ We felt that , from a technical perspective , Canonical could grow with us ,” said Rosenfield . “ And the level of engagement from the Canonical team was remarkable . Even before we entered into a commercial agreement , Canonical offered valuable advice around OEMs and hardware choices . It was dedicated to our project from the get-go .”
This engagement gave Firmus the confidence to choose the full Canonical cloud infrastructure stack – including Charmed OpenStack and Charmed Kubernetes – and tasked Canonical with building and supporting the ecosystem . �
About Firmus
• Australian cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in Tasmania
• Developer of innovative immersion cooling technology that is transforming data centre efficiency
• Building a uniquely sustainable and cost-effective public cloud called Supercloud
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