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AI Meets Mars: How Generative Tools Are Unlocking 20 Years of Rover Science
|TL;DR At the 2025 eResearch Conference, Macquarie Cloud Services spoke with Paulo De Souza about the extraordinary scientific legacy of NASA’s Mars rovers. What began as short, three-month missions evolved into nearly two decades of continuous o...
Flying the Plane While We’re Building It: AeRO’s Community of Research Infrastructure Experts
|TL; DR Generative AI is seen as both exciting and concerning: it delivers powerful new capabilities and insights but is also a “black box,” so validation, transparency, and scientific rigour are critical. There’s particular excitement ab...
Your Guide to Cybersecurity Basics: Tips, Threats, and Real Tactics
|Welcome to a digital world where “click here” could mean the difference between a regular Tuesday and a full-blown data breach. Cybersecurity might feel like something for the coding elite, but it’s as relevant (and urgent) for your everyday ...
A Comprehensive Guide to Security Operations Centers (SOCs): Functions, Strategies, and Benefits
|Curious about how top businesses keep cyberthreats at bay, spot attackers in real time, and still get a full night’s sleep? Meet the Security Operations Centre (SOC)—the nerve centre for modern cyber defense. If you want the no-fluff, straight-ta...
AWS to Azure Migration: A No-Nonsense Guide
|Moving your entire cloud infrastructure is a big deal. For years, AWS has been the default choice for many. But as the cloud landscape evolves, more businesses are looking to alternatives such as Microsoft Azure. A cloud migration isn’t just about ...
Microsoft Enterprise Agreement: What’s Changing November 1st
|Effective 1 November 2025, Microsoft will retire volume-based pricing for its online services under the Enterprise Agreement (EA). This change will impact how businesses purchase cloud-based services like Microsoft 365, Office 365, Azure, and ot...
Macquarie Cloud Services — Once Again Named Australia’s Best Workplace
|. Sydney, Australia – 29 August 2025 — Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ), has been officially ranked #1 in the 30–99 employee category in the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 list by Great Place to Work...
Blowing Your Budget in Azure? How to Master Your Public Cloud Investment
|Let’s set the scene. It’s 2022 and everyone’s moving to Azure. You don’t want to get left behind and you’re pretty impressed with Azure’s features and ease of use from the research you’ve done. You’ve been told public cloud costs are ...
Is Cloud Hosting Right For You? Here’s What You Actually Need to Know
|Cloud hosting has gone from paradigm change to business-as-usual, and with the advent of public cloud, has become accessible to everyone. Its widely accepted today that cloud hosting is the gold standard for any workload that isn’t literally b...
XDR in Cybersecurity: Why “Better Together” Isn’t a Buzzword
|Cybersecurity is chaotic, messy, and evolving every thirty seconds. One minute you’re patching endpoints, the next you’re worrying about shadow IT living in the cloud, and your “fancy” security solutions don’t even talk to each other. Siloe...