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When you just don't feel like talking - launching the Macquarie Cloud Services Portal
|At Macquarie Cloud Services, we’re proudly different, and I mean it. Our service model has multiple layers; immediate local support from our Hosting Management Centre (HMC), named CMND engineers and service delivery managers who partner with your b...
Azure Availability Zones – now running in an Azure data centre near you!
|At Macquarie Cloud Services, our Azure practice has now been running well over a year. Working closely with many Australian businesses, a recurring theme that keeps coming up in the design and architecture phases are continued availability of applica...
Hybrid Cloud Deep Dive: An On-Premise and IaaS blend
|In our previous iteration of the Hybrid Cloud deep dive we talked about the hybrid IT use case that leverages your data centre providers cloud services product portfolio to supplement capacity and capability of your Macquarie Cloud Services colocatio...
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...