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Macquarie Announces New Canberra Government Data Centre
|Macquarie Data Centres invest $100M in Australian data centres this year with both Fortune 100 and 42% of Federal Government now leveraging its facilities. Macq...
Government agencies get SASE on security and flexible working
|When COVID-19 struck, we quickly became grounded and more restricted in how we could move and travel, with the important exception of moving from the office to the home office for roles that could do so. But the same hasn’t been true for the app...
Beyond the Essential Eight (E8) – where to from here?
|As the Australian government moves towards its next phase of the Cyber Security Strategy and consults industry to make legislative reforms, some quiet debate remains within government and industry circles about replacing the nation’s Essential Eig...
Developing Australia’s Defence Industry Base Report
|Today at the National Press Club the Sovereign Australian Prime Alliance (SAPA) launched a new report that sets out the pathway for creating Australian Headquartered businesses and highly skilled jobs in shipbuilding, cyber defence, space, missiles, ...
Data sovereignty focus opens new opportunities for Australian cloud providers
|This article originally appeared in The Australian Australia’s burgeoning cloud industry is not really our own, as recent research showed the soon-to-be $1 billion sector is dominated by the large global providers. That creates an inherent cyber se...
Macquarie Announces New Canberra Government Data Centre
|Macquarie Data Centres invest $100M in Australian data centres this year with both Fortune 100 and 42% of Federal Government now leveraging its facilities. Macquarie Government and Macquarie Data Centres, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ)...
30 years of Australian internet - trends and opportunities.
|There is no debate – the internet has fundamentally changed Australia since its inception 30 years ago. To celebrate the milestone our managing director Aidan Tudehope recently sat down with cyber governance expert Peter Coroneos to discuss interne...
What's next?
|There are many ways in which the Federal election has turned the usual assumptions on their head and this includes cyber security policy. One of the most interesting is that the ICT sector seems to be finding it harder to answer the “what’s nextâ...
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...
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 government agencies have endured for years have too often locked them into expensive, inflexib...
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...