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Azure Answered - 15 design considerations for apps destined for Microsoft Azure
|Over the last 12 months, we’ve been meeting customers on the journey to Microsoft Azure. In the majority of cases, stage 1 of the journey is ‘lift and shift’ and application transformation is embarked upon in a later phase. The journey need not...
Something to celebrate in 2020
|Inside looking out. Last year I posted an article about how proud I am to work for Macquarie Cloud Services, and how honoured I am to be part of this championship winning team. Fast forward 12 months, and what a year we have had from bush fires, to f...
10 years in the Making at Macquarie Cloud Services
|2020 has been an eventful year by everyone’s standards, for me personally it also marked my ten-year anniversary here at Macquarie Cloud Services. So much has evolved but one thing that has remained a key pillar of who we are, is our focus on peopl...
Hybrid Cloud Deep Dive: Avoiding CAPEX by blending Colocation and IaaS
|One of the most overlooked but cost-effective and flexible Hybrid IT – Multi-Cloud implementations isn’t necessarily the most obvious. Whether you know it or not, you’ve more than likely been running your own cloud since the birth of virtualisa...
Azure Answered - A modern approach to DR with Azure
|Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure provides solid guidance on running your infrastructure in Azure. One of the challenges organisations face is to design and implement a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy. Properly addressing this is a sign of...
New financial year, new normal, new partner?
|As your business begins its COVID Re-boot, make sure it has a Technology Services partner equipped to drive it into FY21. Review & Reflect. The start of the new financial year has for the first time since COVID-19, given us something to look forward ...
#StayHomeStaySafe: Why Cloud Makes Sense When It’s Closer to Home
|Australian’s are once again getting ready to pivot their ways of working with many offices planning a socially distanced, partial return to the office. Some of us already had flexible work arrangements and remote access systems, but only for so...
Azure Answered - Azure Discover | Azure Optimise: A year in review
|I’m very proud to say we’ve had a strong first FY – and it’s not over yet! While we’ve been running as a focussed Azure business since the start of last year, we launched formally in February of this year in line with both Microsoft Ignite ...
Azure Answered - 3 Azure tips to help you to reduce costs, increase performance and reduce risk
|Being Australia’s #1 managed cloud business and having an 18-year relationship with Microsoft means having a Gold Cloud Platform status and an escalated support contract. We’ve learnt and delivered some on-ground valuable lessons, thanks to the m...
Azure Answered – Macquarie Cloud Services Fortnightly Blog Series
|Welcome to the first edition of our Azure Answered blog series. With the recent launch of our Azure business & key strategic agreement with Microsoft, we’ve been helping organisations navigate any Azure related queries. On a fortnightly basis, our ...