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Remote Hands · Australia

Remote Hands in Brisbane

Reboot Monkey engineers carry out physical tasks in your racks in Brisbane on your instruction: reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks. The same engineers provide on-site IT support in Brisbane data centers, with a briefed backup engineer named for every customer site.

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Remote Hands in Brisbane

Choose Brisbane says Brisbane's finance and insurance jobs have grown at double the average for major capital cities over the past five years. Equipment that supports work like this often sits in racks that the customer's own staff cannot reach at short notice. NEXTDC B1 stands on Wharf Street in Brisbane, and the building, its power, cooling and access policy belong to the facility operator. A request starts with a message describing the task, the rack location and the equipment involved. A Reboot Monkey engineer then carries out the work in your rack, and you receive confirmation of what was done. Because the work is physical and instructed, you decide the scope of each job before anyone enters the data hall.

Datacenter Facilities in Brisbane

Data centres in Brisbane, ordered by the number of networks present:

  • NEXTDC B1, 20 Wharf Street, Brisbane: 97 networks; carriers 5GN, Aussie Broadband, Falcore Australia Pty Ltd, Global Secure Layer, QCN and others
  • Equinix BR1 - Brisbane (formerly Metronode Brisbane 1) (Equinix, Inc.), 54-58 Alfred Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 4006: 21 networks; carriers Vocus
  • Polaris Data Centre, 11 Mary Macenroth Lane, Springfield QLD 4300, Brisbane: 14 networks; carriers Aussie Broadband and Vocus
  • Over the Wire - 100 Wickham (Over The Wire Pty Ltd), Level 6, 100 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 4006: 9 networks
  • Fujitsu Eight Mile Plains (Fujitsu Australia Limited), 3 Brandl Street, Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane 4113: 8 networks
  • Host Networks BNE1, 1/53 Brandl Street, Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane 4113: 8 networks
  • PIPE Networks Brisbane (Vocus Group), Level 9, 127 Creek St, Brisbane 4000: 7 networks
  • 5GN Brisbane Data Centre (BDC) (5G Networks), 42 Amelia Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 4006: 3 networks; carriers 5GN
  • AAPT Fortitude Valley (Vocus Group), Level 1, 100 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 4006: 1 network
  • Christie Systems DC1 (Christie Systems Services), 320 Adelaide Street, Brisbane 4000: 1 network

Our Remote Hands Services

Remote hands is the set of physical tasks your team would perform if they were standing at the rack. In Brisbane, that covers the following work, all carried out by Reboot Monkey engineers inside the customer's facility:

  • Reboots and power cycling of servers and network devices on your instruction
  • Cable checks, patching and visual checks of equipment status and indicator lights
  • Component swaps, such as replacing a failed drive or module that you supply
  • Installing and patching cabling in your rack for cross connects and carrier circuits that Reboot Monkey orders from the facility operator and the carriers present in the building
  • Fibre inspection, with a scope and cleaning kit available on request

Why Reboot Monkey

Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not host your workloads and does not own the building, so its engineers have no interest in steering you toward a particular facility or platform. It sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network, data-centre hardware and the services that deliver, install and support them, inside data centres that other companies own and run.

Two working practices matter for a Brisbane deployment. First, a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so a single absence does not leave your racks without cover. Second, prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job, which lets procurement scope a request before committing to it.

When a task needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge, it is smart hands rather than remote hands, and the same engineers can take it on. For continuous visibility, the Reboot Monkey NOC can also monitor your servers and network equipment.

How Reboot Monkey Works

These terms apply in every facility in Brisbane where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

  • Response: 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA, and a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. The incident response SLA covers incidents and unplanned requests; on-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
  • Monitoring: 24/7 NOC monitoring across all facilities, covering IPMI, iDRAC, SNMP, temperature, power, network signals.
  • Hardware: vendor-neutral technicians for Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment.
  • Independence: independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff).
  • One agreement: single provider across cities, so a customer in several cities needs only one agreement.
  • Service levels and terms: https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/solutions/sla
  • Published case study: a major ICT provider engaged Reboot Monkey for three full infrastructure rollouts in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, with the hardware installed the same day at every site. Read the case study at https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/resources/case-study/how-we-completed-3-full-deployments-across-pakistan

Brisbane

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

Remote Hands in Other Cities in Australia

As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. If your equipment is split between Queensland and New South Wales, the same service is available as Remote Hands in Sydney, so one supplier can cover both sites.

Related Services

Remote hands often follows from the decision about where equipment lives. If you are still placing hardware, Colocation in Brisbane covers rack space inside the facility, and the engineers who install your hardware can continue to support it once it is running. Other services in the same scope include rack and stack for new hardware, server migration between racks, rooms or facilities, and data center decommissioning for retired equipment.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does remote hands cover in Brisbane?

Remote hands covers physical tasks that Reboot Monkey engineers carry out in your rack on your instruction: reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks. Engineers can also install and patch cabling for cross connects and carrier circuits that Reboot Monkey orders. Work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge is smart hands, a separate service.

Do you provide on-site IT support in Brisbane data centers?

Yes. Reboot Monkey engineers work on site in Brisbane data centers, under the operator's site rules, which cover power, cooling and access. You send an instruction describing the task and the rack, an engineer carries it out, and a second briefed engineer is named as backup for your site. Prices are quoted on request.

Do you work in every datacenter in Brisbane?

Reboot Monkey engineers work in any facility in Brisbane where the customer has equipment and access, under the operator's own access and safety rules. The customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list before the first visit.

How fast can Reboot Monkey respond in Brisbane?

Incidents and unplanned requests are handled under a 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA. There is also a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. On-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.

How is Reboot Monkey different from the facility operator's own staff?

Facility operators' own technicians work for the building. Reboot Monkey engineers work for the customer: they are independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff), follow the customer's instructions, and the same team can cover several buildings in the city under one agreement.

How do I get started with remote hands in Brisbane?

Send the site, the equipment and the task through the contact form. Reboot Monkey replies with a quote and an engineer plan for that facility. Once agreed, the customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list and the remote hands work is scheduled under the operator's rules.

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