Later today Datacom staff and the onsite construction teams will get together for a ‘roof shout’ to celebrate the completion of structural works on ‘Kapua’, the company's under construction $30 million data center.

Located in Hamilton, Kapua is Datacom’s newest tier 3+ data center and is on track to open for business in early February 2013.

Meaning "cloud" in Maori language, the Kapua data center will be the sister facility to Datacom’s Orbit data center located in Albany.

“Our significant investment here in Kapua supports rising customer demand for failsafe uptime teamed with the knowledge that their data is securely hosted domestically," says Steve Matheson, Datacom COO.

Built to meet the exacting government security requirements the new centre will have the capacity to house 920 racks with room for expansion.

“Customer network connections are getting faster on the back of the government sponsored fibre initiatives and there is an increased expectation that applications will be responsive and media rich," Matheson says.

"Delivering this experience requires local servers."

Selected for its geographic suitability and high network connectivity, Matheson believes Hamilton is the emerging hub of high tech business activity.

Second only to Auckland, Hamilton is the most geologically stable area in New Zealand and from a network perspective Hamilton is ideal with all the major network providers running fibre rings through that city.

“With the right optical equipment on the end of the fibre we can provide effectively any speed of network required between the centres at minimal latency," Matheson says.