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Understanding the benefits of managed cloud services
|Foreword: This article is an excerpt from a white-paper designed to help IT and business leaders understand the exciting opportunities enabled by a successful m...
Urgent: On-going International computer virus WannaCry: What to know, what to do.
|International computer virus ‘WannaCry’ causing havoc. Over the weekend news broke about a global cyber security emergency that has impacted hundreds of tho...
Macquarie Cloud Services to power Dell’s push into Australian Cloud
|Macquarie Telecom Group’s cloud business unit has secured Virtustream, a Dell Technologies company, as a significant new customer. “We are delighted to prov...
4 Reasons to Make Time for Macquarie Cloud Services at Gartner IOMDC Summit
|The Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations Management & Data Centre Summit (IOMDC) is a premier gathering for senior IT and business leaders. It offers a depth and breadth of infrastructure and operations topic coverage that you otherwise can’t find...
Defence-In-Depth Cloud Security. Because part of a solution is no solution at all.
|In an era of mandatory breach reporting, cloud security challenges are growing. But budgets are not. The answer for many is to sweat their assets in Colocation Data Centres to free time, money and tal...
Mandatory Breach Reporting. What's Changed and How You'll Know You're Ready.
|Data matters. Where it lives. How it’s managed. And how it’s secured. Yet last year, over 31% of Australian organisation were breached1. So how will you know when you’re ready? New Mandatory Breach Reporting obligations now apply for organisati...
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 ...
Three Reasons You Can’t Miss Macquarie Cloud Services at Cisco Live
|Cisco Live! is a series of global events where IT and communications professionals can come together to share knowledge and skills in events, webcasts, and on-demand sessions. Melbourne is hosting the Australian iteration of Cisco Live! between the 6...
Critical Intel, AMD and ARM Processor Vulnerability Response
|On the 4th of January 2018, details of two critical hardware vulnerabilities Spectre (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) emerged that impact the majority of computers running Intel Processors (Spectre and Meltdown), AMD and A...
Macquarie's intention to purchase Bulletproof Networks
|Macquarie Telecom Group CEO David Tudehope talking about Macquarie’s intention to purchase the listed Cloud provider Bulletproof Networks on 22 November 2017. Yesterday Macquarie Telecom Group announced our intention to purchase the listed Cloud pr...
A paradigm shift in virtualisation - Containers
|12 billion Container image pulls (DockerCon 2017) and counting – it is no wonder Containerisation and virtualisation are hot topics in the industry today. There has been a large-scale adoption of Containers by large businesses across many verticals...
4 Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing a Dedicated Server
|Dedicated servers are the backbone of many organisations. Dedicated servers are what makes the magic possible. Oftentimes, it can be easy to fall into a rut of choosing the cheapest option. It some ways it seems to make good business sense – you’...
Hybrid Cloud Drives Digital Transformation
|According to a study by Gartner, the number one business priority for CEOs this year is growth. This is up from 42% last year. Coming in a close second is technology. For many CEOs, these two goals go hand in hand. CEOs are looking for areas to enabl...