Latest Blog.
Sovereign Cyber Security Centre of Excellence
|We are proud to announce a major investment we are making in the New South Wales cybersecurity and digital economy as well as strengthening Australia’s sovereign cybersecurity capability. Purpose-built for cybersecurity and government sovereign sup...
Defence Minister Peter Dutton Opens Macquarie’s New High Security Data Centre in Canberra
|18 June 2021 – Australia’s Minister for Defence, The Hon. Peter Dutton MP, today officially unveiled Intellicentre 5 Bunker (IC5), highlighting it as critical infrastructure supporting Australia’s data sovereignty, national cyber security and d...
Budget delivers timely infrastructure, cyber and skills boost to Australian economy
|13 May 2021, Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) has welcomed the publication of the 2021-22 Federal Budget, particularly its focus on building critical infrastructure, bolstering cyber security in Australia and expanding much-needed digital skills...
What makes a government cloud?
|Since the release of the National Strategy for Cloud Computing in 2013, the Australian Government has continued its trajectory of cloud adoption for the significant benefits cloud offers – greater flexibility, agility, operational efficiencies, sca...
The digital infrastructure you’ll never see
|In a secret location there is a Canberra data centre that’s a silent fortress and a cornerstone of the Australian Government’s digital transformation strategy. At Macquarie’s new Canberra data centres there are hundreds of rack-mounted servers ...
Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government Launches New Government-certified Facility in Canberra
|Macquarie launches $17M Government facility, IC5 Certified to store and manage highly classified Government data including Department of Defence data Construction supported over 400 jobs in the ACT throughout 2020 Australia’s sovereign data protect...
Victorian Government cloud adoption study findings revealed
|Key findings of a study on government cloud adoption by the Victorian Government were presented to agency ICT leaders in Melbourne at Macquarie Government’s sponsored lunch by independent analyst firm Ovum and their Chief Analyst and Practice Leade...
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 ...
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...
Will 2017 be an inflection point for the Australian Government's digital transformation?
|Recently I pondered whether 2017 would be remembered as the Australian Government’s inflection-point year for digital transformation and cyber security. As I mulled this over it became clear that this year may indeed be the inflection point – a y...