Intralinks tags HP Helion for its Oz-hosted cloud

Questions about data sovereignty have brought another cloud provider to Australia, with Intralinks moving into an HP data centre down under.

The collaboration software-as-a-service outfit will launch early in 2016, with Intralinks specifically tagging Australian data sovereignty regulations as behind the move.

Its concern about regulatory compliance is because the company wants to target federal government clients, since that's where local data-hosting is most strictly enforced. The private sector, on the other hand, regularly outsources its data centres – and data-handling like call centres – to international locations.

Intralinks' canned statement says it'll be setting up its platform on HP's Helion platform, the company's private-and-hybrid-and-maybe-public cloud service.

The deal will put a bunch of HP racks into the Canberra Data Centre, which lays claim to supplying the most square metres of data centre space to the federal government.

The Intralinks statement describes its collaboration software as offering high security, strict enforcement of where data is stored, customer self-management of encryption keys, and an “information rights management” system to avoid accidental data-sharing. ®