{"id":31053,"date":"2023-10-25T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=31053"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:38:31","slug":"macquarie-cloud-services-and-vitg-expand-sovereign-cloud-provision-to-australias-healthcare-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2023\/10\/25\/macquarie-cloud-services-and-vitg-expand-sovereign-cloud-provision-to-australias-healthcare-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Cloud Services and VITG expand sovereign cloud provision to Australia\u2019s healthcare sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leading cloud provider and MSP tackle complex Australian healthcare data requirements for private hospitals, GPs, physios and more.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macquarie Cloud Services has expanded an agreement with Virtual IT Group to provide secure private cloud services for its healthcare clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headquartered in Illawarra, New South Wales, Virtual IT Group (VITG) provides managed network, infrastructure, applications and security services to a range of sectors across Australia. It is a leading managed service provider (MSP) for the healthcare industry – which has some of the most stringent data security requirements of any sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ensure it could enhance its leadership in the industry and satisfy the Australian Digital Health Agency\u2019s recommendation for healthcare providers to keep data in Australia, VITG deployed Macquarie Cloud Services\u2019 Launch private cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company is the only in Australia to have both its cloud and data center services certified at the \u2018Strategic\u2019 level under the Government\u2019s Hosting Certification Framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHealthcare providers are increasingly sensitive to cyber security concerns, particularly given the major breaches we\u2019ve seen in the past year and the fact that it remains the most targeted industry,\u201d said Mark Farrell, Head of Security and Compliance, VITG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClients constantly ask us about where their data is kept, how it\u2019s secured and where they might be exposed. Macquarie Cloud Services\u2019 baked-in security, sovereignty and expertise \u2013 particularly among its more-than 200 NV1, government data security-cleared personnel \u2013 make those questions very easy to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deployment has seen Macquarie Cloud Services develop a customised private cloud for VITG in its Launch platform, built on Dell Technologies hardware, which includes security updates and patching, 24\/7\/365 support, monitoring, provision of insights, and alerts. It also migrated a huge volume of data from VITG\u2019s self-managed data center to Macquarie Data Centers\u2019 sovereign facilities – with no disruption to workloads or customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VITG selected Macquarie Cloud Services primarily for its customer experience expertise, data sovereignty capabilities, and its ability to create customisable cloud environments. Farrell says the system is ideal for larger providers such as private hospitals – but that it can also provide affordable and scalable cloud to smaller GPs, physiotherapists and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMajor private or public cloud deployments are often cost prohibitive and out of reach for smaller healthcare providers,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they\u2019re bound by the same data protection requirements, so they need secure cloud. VITG and Macquarie Cloud Services make those services commercially viable, scalable and secure – and we\u2019ve had multiple requests to stand up more capacity which the team can instantly provide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Staff, Macquarie Cloud Services lead on private cloud business, said the fact costs are rising and choice is fading in the cloud market as budgets come under pressure make the partnership even more vital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPartnerships with companies such as VITG are essential to the market right now, particularly in a healthcare setting where data is sensitive and must be safeguarded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading cloud provider and MSP tackle complex Australian healthcare data requirements for private hospitals, GPs, physios and more. Macquarie Cloud Services has expanded an agreement with Virtual IT Group to provide secure private cloud services for its healthcare clients. Headquartered in Illawarra, New South Wales, Virtual IT Group (VITG) provides managed network, infrastructure, applications and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":31054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,51,55,44,54],"tags":[76,79,90,5123,2265,5124,5122],"class_list":["post-31053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-industry-verticals-healthcare","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-oceania","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-australia","tag-cloud","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-sector","tag-macquarie-cloud-services","tag-virtual-it-group","tag-vitg"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31443,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053\/revisions\/31443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}