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The Importance of a Mission Critical Data Centre in a Global Crisis
|Opinion Piece. Contributed by Nicholas Bojko, Chief Information Security Officer, Macquarie Data Centres. Over the past 4 months Australia has encountered some of the most significant environmental events impacting our general way of life as we kn...
How did businesses go from the Flintstones to the Jetsons in a matter of months?
|Do you remember the days when we would carefully take pictures to ensure we were not wasting film? We would then
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...
Australian for Data Centres, what does that really mean?
|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
|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
|Macquarie Telecom Group to develop Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus to 43MW Macquarie Telecom Group announces the expansion of its existing Macquarie Park Intellicentre to a 43MW Campus. This significant development will be undertaken in phases. Pha...
Macquarie Cloud Services Protects Australian Health Data with Government-Grade Cyber Security
|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
|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
|Macquarie Telecom 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 Telecom Group data centres and cloud se...
Resilient data centres: Water-cooled versus air-cooled?
|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...