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Avoiding the Public Clouds' Hotel California Effect
|Australian taxpayers have a lot at stake as agencies ramp up their transition to modern hybrid IT environments. The legacy outsourced supply contracts many gove...
Let's not Push Successful Policies Aside
|In an election period, the conversation naturally turns into a contest and swings between new initiatives being promoted and finger-pointing accusations of past failures. It is easy for long running successful policies to be pushed aside in the heat...
Macquarie Government Proud to be Launch Partner for NSW Government Cloud Services Marketplace buy.nsw
|Macquarie Government today announced it will offer its unique, built-for-government cloud services to NSW agencies as a launch partner of the new NSW Government cloud services marketplace, buy.nsw. Macquarie Government brings 15 years’ experience ...
Mesosphere Partners with Macquarie Government to Enhance Digital Transformation, Application Development, and Big Data Capabilities
|New exclusive partnership will bring Mesopshere’s cloud management technologies to the Australian government. Macquarie Government today announced an exclusive partnership with Mesosphere, Inc., the multi-cloud automation platform company, that wil...
Scholarship in Cyber Security
|I was fortunate to have awarded Rifa Sanzida Ritu the Macquarie Government Scholarship in Cyber Security at the Western Sydney University’s Scholarship awards ceremony on Friday afternoon. Macquarie Government Marketing Manager Daniel Boerma, sc...
Our biggest investment ever - Sydney Data Centre Intellicentre 3
|This week, we announced our investment in Intellicentre 3 (IC3), our new purpose-built 33 megawatts (MW) data centre in Sydney in the suburb of Macquarie Park. When combined with our existing 10MW Intellicentre 2 (IC2) facility, forms a massive 43...
Macquarie Government WSU Cyber Security Scholarship Selection Underway
|I had the absolute privilege of meeting four exceptional students from Western Sydney University on Thursday last week. I was a member of the panel that was tasked with selecting the recipient of the Macquarie Government Cyber Security Scholarship ...
Macquarie Government Supports Decryption Initiative
|New legislation updates current intercept laws. Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Macquarie Government, commented today on draft legislation being prepared by the Australian Federal Government to allow access to encrypted data of suspected terrorist...
Government is in the Cloud: New Research Shows Government ICT Revolution Underway
|The Federal Government cloud policy has been successful in driving fundamental change, but there was more work to be done, according to a recent Ovum study commissioned by cloud services provider Macquarie Government. The survey found there has been...
Cyber Security, Community Fear and Maintaining Trust – a Rare Insight into Duncan Lewis, an Australian Security Czar
|ASIO Director General Duncan Lewis provided some rare and frank insights into his perspective on his job, false perceptions of and within government, international cyber security challenges and the balance of public interest and private rights in a r...
Managing Cloud Data Risks - Protected Cloud Certification
|Commonwealth agencies are responsible for managing the risk associated with the loss of any information they hold. All ICT systems used by Federal Government agencies in Australia are required to comply with common rules to ensure they are safe and s...