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Defence Minister Peter Dutton Opens Macquarie’s New High Security Data Centre in Canberra
|18 June 2021 – Australia’s Minister for Defence, The Hon. Peter Dutton MP, today officially unveiled Intellicentre 5 Bunker (IC5), highlighting it as critical infrastructure supporting Australia’s data sovereignty, national cyber security and d...
What is a green data centre?
|The Australian Government can strengthen its environmental credentials through utilising green data centres, but what are green data centres, and how can they reduce government carbon emissions? Data centres and cloud computing reduce carbon emission...
Budget delivers timely infrastructure, cyber and skills boost to Australian economy
|13 May 2021, Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) has welcomed the publication of the 2021-22 Federal Budget, particularly its focus on building critical infrastructure, bolstering cyber security in Australia and expanding much-needed digital skills...
What makes a government cloud?
|Since the release of the National Strategy for Cloud Computing in 2013, the Australian Government has continued its trajectory of cloud adoption for the significant benefits cloud offers – greater flexibility, agility, operational efficiencies, sca...
The digital infrastructure you’ll never see
|In a secret location there is a Canberra data centre that’s a silent fortress and a cornerstone of the Australian Government’s digital transformation strategy. At Macquarie’s new Canberra data centres there are hundreds of rack-mounted servers ...
Macquarie Technology Group appoints former head of cyber warfare
|The below announcement was featured in the Canberra Times, Defense Connect, ITWire and a number of other media sites. Macquarie Technology Group appoints former head of cyber warfare Maj Gen Marcus Thompson AM PhD as Senior Advisor 27 April 2021 Macq...
The Role of Data Centres in the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Strategy
|The federal government’s Digital Transformation Strategy is rightly focused on modernising government to improve customer service outcomes. However, the role of Macquarie Government’s data centres in Canberra and services including cloud, hosting...
Data Sovereignty and Data Centres
|Australians have made it clear that they expect their governments to keep their personal information onshore. Uptake of both the COVIDSafe and My Health Record apps was lower than hoped due to public concern around the risk of their data being access...
Australia’s sovereign technology industry to power our economic recovery
|This article originally appeared in The Australian Since Australia’s pandemic lockdowns, the Commonwealth Government has called on Australians to support our local tourism industry by encouraging domestic travel to counter the huge drop in overseas...
Why Macquarie built a Canberra Data Centre
|For greater security, scalability and cost reduction it’s not surprising the Australian government is in lockstep with corporate Australia in migrating ICT services to data-centre providers. However, the Australian Government does have particularly...