{"id":11382,"date":"2017-03-22T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T02:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/dell-government-cloud-hosting-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:37:06","slug":"dell-government-cloud-hosting-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/dell-government-cloud-hosting-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Telecom and Dell EMC have their heads in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"
Macquarie announced last week that we had secured Dell Technologies (and its subsidiary Virtustream) as a significant new customer.<\/p>\n
We are thrilled to be supporting their sizeable investments in Australia and in their Australian customers.<\/p>\n
For those that follow Dell Technologies, their complete focus on driving digital transformation with its customers \u2013 IT, workforce and Security \u2013 is clear.\u00a0 And that requires both their legacy businesses and increasingly their new, cloud orientated service offerings to realise this plan.<\/p>\n
This is where Macquarie comes into the picture, providing the local infrastructure for the Dell cloud to be delivered in country, across multiple availablility zones.\u00a0 And of particular note, is that one of these availability zones sits within our Intellicentre 4 Bunker<\/a> \u2013 our purpose build secure in our Canberra data centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n This fact alone will position Dell well as they can connect direct to government agencies via ICON (AU Government\u2019s own fibre network), and leverage our sizeable work providing cyber security services to the Commonwealth (42% of AU Government are our customers).\u00a0 No need to long line back to public clouds based in Sydney and the associated security issues usually associated public cloud adoption.\u00a0 There is some real magic here.\u00a0 We have seen this in our own Macquarie Cloud<\/a>, that has Sydney and Canberra availability zones and certified by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) for use by the Australian Government.<\/p>\n Dell Technologies spent USD$1.2bn bulking up its enterprise cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Virtustream \u2013 the orchestration technology that powers its cloud.\u00a0 That\u2019s a sizeable investment.\u00a0 And with those dollars committed, and arguably a slice of Dell\u2019s future at risk, it\u2019s no wonder that the focus is being driven right from the top with Michael Dell.\u00a0 We can see Michael\u2019s personal involvement in the success of the Australian investment here:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Source: Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies commenting about Macquarie Telecom<\/a> (@MacquarieTelco<\/a>) on TwitterTM<\/sup>. Date: 16 March 2017. URL: https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelDell<\/a><\/p>\n I took the time out from my focus in Canberra to travel to Washington DC to visit the team that built the VS platform & business.\u00a0 I wanted to personally understand the extent of what it enabled and why Dell saw so much value in the platform.\u00a0 There are some seriously experienced IT enterprise professionals behind the business.\u00a0 If anyone is going to make it work for Dell Technologies, it\u2019s this team.<\/p>\n The rewards are significant and Dell Technologies are investing big dollars to realise these rewards.<\/p>\n About Macquarie Government<\/strong>: Macquarie Government is a division of the bet365 live casino games (ASX MAQ). It provides services to Federal and State Government agencies, including Secure Internet<\/a> and Secure Cloud<\/a> services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Macquarie announced last week that we had secured Dell Technologies (and its subsidiary Virtustream) as a significant new customer. We are thrilled to be supporting their sizeable investments in Australia and in their Australian customers. Digital transformation For those that follow Dell Technologies, their complete focus on driving digital transformation with its customers \u2013 IT, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,44],"tags":[261,46,339,341,342,343,258,344,340],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hosting-3","category-news","tag-aidan-tudehope","tag-cloud-hosting","tag-dell","tag-dell-emc","tag-dell-technologies","tag-emc","tag-macquarie-government","tag-secure-hosting","tag-virtustream"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVirtustream and Macquarie Telecom<\/h3>\n
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