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COVID-19 Communication
March 18 2020, by David Hirst |Category: Data Centres
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...
Australian for Data Centres, what does that really mean?
February 12 2020, by Macquarie Data Centres |Category: Data Centres
It means we get it. We get Australia. In the last three months, Australia has experienced unprecedented weather conditions uniquely referred to as a ‘once in a generational event’. Extreme heat, bushfires, torrential rains, ongoing drought. Lasti...
Digging deep, construction begins on Macquarie Data Centres’ IC3
December 11 2019, by David Hirst |Category: Data Centres
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...
Development of IC3 East to create the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus
August 7 2018, by Aidan Tudehope |Category: Technology Group
Macquarie Technology Group to develop Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus to 43MW Macquarie Technology Group announces the expansion of its existing Macquarie Park Intellicentre to a 43MW Campus. This significant development will be undertaken in phase...
Macquarie Cloud Services Protects Australian Health Data with Government-Grade Cyber Security
June 12 2018, by David Forman |Category: Cloud Services
Australians’ sensitive health information will be protected to the same high cyber security standards required by Government agencies even when stored in private clouds, thanks to a new service launched today by Macquarie Cloud Services. Macquarie ...
The Rising Cost of Energy-Hungry Data Centres
February 26 2018, by Elisa Chan |Category: Cloud Services
Maintaining or upgrading energy-hungry data centres is a struggle. It’s not just you. Something is going on with Australian energy prices. Usage is going down. But prices are skyrocketing. Green energy has been a hot topic for the last decade as ...
Keeping up with growing data centre demand – David Hirst’s appointment as Group Executive
November 8 2017, by Lois Potter |Category: Technology Group
Macquarie Technology Group today announced it has promoted David Hirst to the position of Group Executive and given him a leading role in developing the company’s data centre expansion plan. Demand for Macquarie Technology Group data centres and cl...
4 Reasons Disaster Recovery is Better in the Cloud
August 8 2017, by Pierre Lintzer |Category: Cloud Services
Whenever you turn on the news, it might feel like there’s a new disaster that’s happening somewhere in the world. Maybe it feels like it will never be you, but the truth is that it’s somebody. And those businesses experiencing that disaster? Ho...
Resilient data centres: Water-cooled versus air-cooled?
July 10 2017, by Aidan Tudehope |Category: Cloud Services
Resilient data centres, technology time lapse. I had the opportunity to visit several data centres in Europe this week. They were all pure colocation plays, primarily selling conditioned real estate (data hall space, power and cooling) to large enter...