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When protecting data, who trusts who?
|Organisations and governments are under intense pressure to create and maintain trust around data. In a world where data is multiplying at the rate of 2.5 quint...
Reference Architectures: Choice and scale in data centre operations
|One of the fundamental foundations of successful colocation operations is the reference architecture that defines the implementation. When defining a reference architecture, either for the first time or when upgrading as part of an expansion of op...
A Guide to Cloud Computing and Data Centres
|The terms cloud and data centre are often used interchangeably but without much clarity. Indeed, it is true that cloud computing and data centres are related, but it is important to recognise and distinguish how they fit into the puzzle. That’s why...
When protecting data, who trusts who?
|Organisations and governments are under intense pressure to create and maintain trust around data. In a world where data is multiplying at the rate of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day (1 followed by 18 zeros), or 2.5 exabytes if you prefer, co...
Macquarie Data Centres’ Full Portfolio Certified Strategic by Australian Government
|Latest certification by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) confirms that Macquarie Data Centres’ facilities offer capability to support government information up to Top Secret classification with full redundancy at the Certified Strategic leve...
Macquarie Data Centres announces new Sydney North data centre
|IC3 Super West largest investment to date, expands Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus to 50MW and includes new Sovereign Cyber Security Centre of Excellence. The new Sydney North data centre – Intellicentre 3 Super West. Macquarie Data Centres, part...
Defence Minister Peter Dutton Opens Macquarie Data Centres’ New High Security Facility in Canberra
|18 June 2021 – Australia’s Minister for Defence, The Hon. Peter Dutton MP, today officially unveiled Macquarie Data Centres’ Intellicentre 5 Bunker (IC5), highlighting it as critical infrastructure supporting Australia’s data sovereignty, nat...
Macquarie Data Centres Welcomes Australian Government’s Commitment to Data Sovereignty
|Sydney, Australia – Macquarie Data Centres, part of the Macquarie Telecom Group (ASX: MAQ), has welcomed the Australian Federal Government’s announcement that all government data will soon require storage only in onshore data centres that are Cer...
How data centres became as important as water and energy
|Technical real estate has kept businesses alive during the pandemic with global digital dependency being greater now than ever before. Those of us who work on the frontlines of technology, and certainly within the data centre industry itself, have al...
COVID-19 Communication
|As the COVID-19 situation continues to change rapidly around the world, Macquarie Data Centres will release advice to our customers on our business operations. With cases of COVID-19 increasing in Australia we’ve been closely monitoring the outbrea...
Digging deep, construction begins on Macquarie Data Centres’ IC3
|We’re digging deep, enough for a whopping 43 megawatts (MW) capacity. Last week we broke ground on Intellicentre 3 – IC3 – our new data centre in the Sydney North Zone, an area rich in cloud ecosystems and connectivity, signalling the next stag...