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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 ...
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...
Addressing the Challenges with the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy
|In 2008 the Australian Government commissioned a review into its ICT use, and upon the findings a whole-of-government data centre strategy was endorsed to avoid ad-hoc ICT infrastructure costs. The Australian Government data centre strategy 2010-2025...
Data sovereignty focus opens new opportunities for Australian cloud providers
|This article originally appeared in The Australian Australia’s burgeoning cloud industry is not really our own, as recent research showed the soon-to-be $1 billion sector is dominated by the large global providers. That creates an inherent cyber se...
Save on Microsoft licensing with our high-performance cloud. Here’s how.
|Licensing conundrum. Windows Server, VMWare and Microsoft SQL database licensing are critical components for most IT deployments—but they can be pricey and add significant costs to moving to the cloud. This is driven by several often overlooked fac...
Macquarie Government Proud to be Launch Partner for NSW Government Cloud Services Marketplace buy.nsw
|Macquarie Government today announced it will offer its unique, built-for-government cloud services to NSW agencies as a launch partner of the new NSW Government cloud services marketplace, buy.nsw. Macquarie Government brings 15 years’ experience ...
Avoiding the Public Clouds' Hotel California Effect
|Australian taxpayers have a lot at stake as agencies ramp up their transition to modern hybrid IT environments. The legacy outsourced supply contracts many government agencies have endured for years have too often locked them into expensive, inflexib...
Will 2017 be an inflection point for the Australian Government's digital transformation?
|Recently I pondered whether 2017 would be remembered as the Australian Government’s inflection-point year for digital transformation and cyber security. As I mulled this over it became clear that this year may indeed be the inflection point – a y...