Great news for our Business Catalyst Partner community in Australia! Earlier this week the systems and engineering team flicked the 'On' switch for our much anticipated Asia-Pacific Datacenter. Located in Sydney, Australia, it's now online and all new sites that are being created with "Australia" chosen as the data center location will reside on the brand new hardware there.

This is an important milestone in building a more reliable and scalable platform for you to deploy Business Catalyst sites on. Since the Adobe acquisition of Business Catalyst, we have now built and deployed 3 new data centers in 3 geographies across USA, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. They are now all accepting new customers.

Closing the Legacy Datacenters

With 3 of 3 planned datacenters online, one of our highest priority engineering goals shifts to closing down the legacy data centers. The engineering team continues to focus on developing the site migration tools that will enable us to move existing sites from the legacy datacenters to the new datacenters automatically. Building tools for moving sites for an all-in-one hosted application like Business Catalyst are complex and latest indications are that these will be available in sometime in the first half of 2011. I will of course keep the community up-to-date with our progress along the way.

In the meantime we will continue to monitor and maintain the existing data centers with the same level of effort as our new data centers. Moving sites from legacy data centers to new ones will not be possible and Business Catalyst cannot assist with this until our migration tools are available.

Until next time, your friendly neighborhood Product Manager :)