DQA, Dickerson Digital and Microsoft partner for Indigenous sovereign cloud

DQA has collaborated with Indigenous-owned IT provider Dickerson Digital to launch a sovereign cloud on Microsoft. 

Powered by Microsoft Azure and integrated with Azure Orbital, the project is described as Australia’s first Indigenous sovereign cloud. 

The cloud is being rolled out and will soon be available to clients across Queensland, as well as to facilities across Australia. 

The launch follows the recent investment by Microsoft and the Federal Government of $5 billion in Australia’s cloud computing industries and comes off the back of the recent partnership announcement between DQA and Dickerson Digital. 

“Working alongside Dickerson Digital gives us an amazing opportunity to address Australia’s need for a true sovereign, hyperscale data centre,” said Steve Melville, CEO of DQA. 

“Dickerson Digital’s impressive track record of high-value outcomes achieved for private and government organisations give us the perfect ally in developing this critical infrastructure that will truly make meaningful change in Australia’s cloud capabilities and inject this benefit into remote communities.” 

Dickerson Digital also collaborated with Gambarra Jaha, who is on track to secure the largest single capital raising by an Indigenous-owned organisation in Australian history to build and operate sovereign cloud data centres. 

The project’s full vision includes 22 data centres across Australia, as well as two in New Zealand and two in Tonga. 

DQA claimed the sovereign cloud solution has a pipeline of early customers across public and private sectors.