Most organisations are familiar with Storage as a Service - consume data with storage in the cloud, without owning hardware and pay for what you use. DSTaaS works on the same principle, but instead of sitting in shared cloud infrastructure, your storage runs on dedicated Dell Technologies enterprise hardware, deployed at your location or in an Australian Datacom data centre. We manage the full environment, covering monitoring, incident response, vendor liaison and hardware lifecycle.
When your workloads can’t sit in a shared or multi-tenant environment because of compliance requirements, data sovereignty obligations, performance demands or the nature of the data you are working with, Datacom, as a dedicated storage as a service provider, gives you all the benefits of a consumption model without moving your data somewhere you can’t fully control. You keep ownership of access settings and compliance configuration. We keep the lights on and the hardware current.
APRA CPS 230 came into force on 1 July 2025. The SOCI Act requires critical infrastructure operators to maintain living, board-approved risk management programmes with real-time auditability. Regulators want clear answers about where data lives, who operates the environment and how access is controlled. A dedicated model with a single accountable provider makes those answers much easier to give.
Pay per gigabyte, with no upfront capital investment, no over-provisioning and no minimum consumption commitment.
Dedicated hardware: your storage environment, not shared with other tenants.
Lifecycle refresh included: hardware is upgraded every three years as part of the service, at no extra cost.
Fully managed: 24/7 monitoring, incident management and Dell vendor liaison are all included in your per-gigabyte price.
- Consumption agreements with a solution like dedicated cloud storage reduces technology spend which can then be spent on future innovation.
- With unpredictable data growth, your storage strategy needs to be able to shift as demand scales up and down. A consumption-based storage model gives you the performance and scale to support AI adoption without locking capital into infrastructure.
Australian data centres in Sydney and Melbourne.
- Alignment to IRAP PROTECTED and ISO 27001 aligned.
- Supports APRA CPS 230 and Hosting Certification Framework obligations.
