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Don’t Let Your Company Fail Over Failovers: The Difference Between Failover and Disaster Recovery
|It doesn’t only happen to others. Imagine your system goes down – now I know it doesn’t bear thinking of but 2020 has been the year of the unthinkable. Time to spring into action. But wait – your backups a...
Stop saying digital transformation and act to ensure your legal firm evolves
|Just because organisations are investing in IT & Technology they don’t have to call it digital transformation – there we go I’ve said it! Some organisations and in some cases entire industries, need to transform the way they operate but overuse...
Hybrid Cloud Deep Dive: The value of consultants in the whole shooting match
|The whole shooting match (“any cloud” Hybrid Multi-Cloud). At the end of the day there are so many choices out there as to where to host/house your virtual infrastructure/assets that there is no one-size-fits-all. The same software technology use...
Being more than 'different for different's sake'
|Every month this year the world has seemingly thrown at us a new emotionally charged challenge. The concept of ‘plight to fight’ has been more real in 2020, than ever before. We now live in a different world, every single aspect of our lives has ...
Get to know our team: Who is Tracey Paine?
|Tracey is our DevOps and Online Manager for Macquarie Cloud Services. She’s a powerhouse who always has time for a laugh and chat about her kids, biking and anything tech! Over the 10+ years she’s been with us, Tracey has always been a high perfo...
Hybrid Cloud Deep Dive: Hybrid-Cloud Networking
|Cloud Services Gateways and their relevance in a Hybrid-cloud world Hi Again – Previously we have discussed the hybrid cloud capabilities that can be utilised as extensions of existing on premises or colocation private cloud deployments. This also ...
When you just don't feel like talking - launching the Macquarie Cloud Services Portal
|At Macquarie Cloud Services, we’re proudly different, and I mean it. Our service model has multiple layers; immediate local support from our Hosting Management Centre (HMC), named CMND engineers and service delivery managers who partner with your b...
Azure Availability Zones – now running in an Azure data centre near you!
|At Macquarie Cloud Services, our Azure practice has now been running well over a year. Working closely with many Australian businesses, a recurring theme that keeps coming up in the design and architecture phases are continued availability of applica...
Hybrid Cloud Deep Dive: An On-Premise and IaaS blend
|In our previous iteration of the Hybrid Cloud deep dive we talked about the hybrid IT use case that leverages your data centre providers cloud services product portfolio to supplement capacity and capability of your Macquarie Cloud Services (MCS) col...
Azure Answered - 15 design considerations for apps destined for Microsoft Azure
|Over the last 12 months, we’ve been meeting customers on the journey to Microsoft Azure. In the majority of cases, stage 1 of the journey is ‘lift and shift’ and application transformation is embarked upon in a later phase. The journey need not...