Australian OpenText clients will be delivered better network performance and data sovereignty for cloud-hosted applications at a new local data centre, the company has announced.

"Our new Sydney data centre will allow OpenText to help our customers address data security, not only from a technical standpoint, but also from a data sovereignty perspective," said OpenText President and 

CEO Mark J. Barrenechea. 

OpenText announced the Australia data centre investment at the company's Innovation Day event in Sydney, attended by more than 300 OpenText customers and partners.

The new facility was commissioned in January, 2014 and will offer a variety of enterprise-class cloud computing services and applications for securely managing, exchanging and socializing enterprise information. These include managed hosting services, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions. 

The establishment of a new data centre facility in Sydney follows OpenText's acquisition last month of GXS Group’s business-to-business (B2B) cloud integration suite. 

"OpenText Cloud Services provides a comprehensive range of end-to-end solutions by leveraging local and global OpenText Cloud infrastructure, specialist support teams and extensive consulting experience across the OpenText EIM solutions," said Graham Pullen, senior vice president Asia Pacific, OpenText.