“The idea is to try and get all of those into the Cloud data centre as quickly as possible just so we’re leveraging off the value of the investment the Cloud brings us,” Scott said.

A spokesperson for Fujitsu would not disclose which facilities would be used under the contract, though Scott said the facilities would be different from the existing facilities used under a separate outsourcing agreement signed with the services company in 1999.

Fujitsu has ramped up data centre construction in the past three years, marking out key locations for facilities in Perth and Melbourne following the success of its centre in Homebush, Sydney in 2008.

Scott said that, despite the 33-year relationship with Fujitsu, the services company had fought for the deal in a competitive tender process.

In September last year, the car giant that would replace IBM for the services company as part of a managed Windows 7 deployment.