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The Importance of a Mission Critical Data Centre in a Global Crisis
|Opinion Piece. Contributed by Nicholas Bojko, Chief Information Security Officer, Macquarie Data Centres. Over the past 4 months Australia has encountered some of the most significant environmental events impacting our general way of life as we know ...
How did businesses go from the Flintstones to the Jetsons in a matter of months?
|Do you remember the days when we would carefully take pictures to ensure we were not wasting film? We would then wait weeks before the photos were developed, and we would sit as a family passing them around ever so carefully to not imprint our...
COVID-19 Communication
|As the COVID-19 situation continues to change rapidly around the world, Macquarie Data Centres will release advice to our customers on our business operations. With cases of COVID-19 increasing in Australia we’ve been closely monitoring the outbrea...
Australian for Data Centres, what does that really mean?
|It means we get it. We get Australia. In the last three months, Australia has experienced unprecedented weather conditions uniquely referred to as a ‘once in a generational event’. Extreme heat, bushfires, torrential rains, ongoing drought. Lasti...
Digging deep, construction begins on Macquarie Data Centres’ IC3
|We’re digging deep, enough for a whopping 43 megawatts (MW) capacity. Last week we broke ground on Intellicentre 3 – IC3 – our new data centre in the Sydney North Zone, an area rich in cloud ecosystems and connectivity, signalling the next stag...
Development of IC3 East to create the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus
|Macquarie Technology Group to develop Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus to 43MW Macquarie Technology Group announces the expansion of its existing Macquarie Park Intellicentre to a 43MW Campus. This significant development will be undertaken in phase...
Macquarie Cloud Services Protects Australian Health Data with Government-Grade Cyber Security
|Australians’ sensitive health information will be protected to the same high cyber security standards required by Government agencies even when stored in private clouds, thanks to a new service launched today by Macquarie Cloud Services. Macquarie ...
The Rising Cost of Energy-Hungry Data Centres
|Maintaining or upgrading energy-hungry data centres is a struggle. It’s not just you. Something is going on with Australian energy prices. Usage is going down. But prices are skyrocketing. Green energy has been a hot topic for the last decade as ...
Keeping up with growing data centre demand – David Hirst’s appointment as Group Executive
|Macquarie Technology Group today announced it has promoted David Hirst to the position of Group Executive and given him a leading role in developing the company’s data centre expansion plan. Demand for Macquarie Technology Group data centres and cl...
4 Reasons Disaster Recovery is Better in the Cloud
|Whenever you turn on the news, it might feel like there’s a new disaster that’s happening somewhere in the world. Maybe it feels like it will never be you, but the truth is that it’s somebody. And those businesses experiencing that disaster? Ho...