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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 ...

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...

. 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Hybrid cloud. Everyone’s got an opinion. Some reckons it’s the future, others say it’s a headache nobody asked for. The truth? Hybrid cloud is here to stay, and Azure Local HCI is one of the sharpest tools in the box if you want the best of “...

Hybrid cloud management used to be ugly. Sprawling servers in your data centre. Gaps in governance. Compliance scattered from here to next Tuesday. Azure Arc flips all of that on its head. Now, you can manage, secure, and govern your entire IT estate...

You want your Security Operations Centre (SOC) to be slick, responsive, and ahead of every new threat. Microsoft’s Azure Sentinel is designed to make it happen. But what actually is Sentinel? How does it fit into an existing SOC strategy, and what ...

In this exclusive Intelligent CIO APAC interview, James Mystakidis, Group Executive of Macquarie Cloud Services, shares the leadership philosophies and strategic decisions behind one of Australia’s fastest-growing cloud and security businesses. ...