{"id":36688,"date":"2024-06-17T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=36688"},"modified":"2024-06-17T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:49:54","slug":"macquarie-cloud-services-launches-australian-first-dell-azure-hybrid-cloud-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2024\/06\/17\/macquarie-cloud-services-launches-australian-first-dell-azure-hybrid-cloud-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Cloud Services launches Australian-first Dell, Azure hybrid cloud offering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Macquarie Flex brings true hybrid capabilities to Australian businesses\u00a0revolutionising the handling of critical workloads.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an Australian first, Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group, has leveraged strategic relationships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies to launch Macquarie Flex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macquarie Flex is pitched as a \u2018unique\u2019 hybrid solution powered by Microsoft Azure Stack HCI (Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure) and Dell Technologies APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure providing workload flexibility, a single management plane, consistent experience, 24X7 mission critical support and evergreen compliance across public, private and hybrid cloud environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the first Dell Technologies partner offering Azure Stack HCI in Australia, the launch marks a significant milestone for organisations who have traditionally been challenged by the integration costs and complexity of hybrid cloud. Now, Macquarie Flex provides these organisations with a new solution to simplify hybrid cloud management, manage cloud spend and meet compliance and sovereign requirements.&nbsp;<br><br>\u201cMacquarie Flex is the true definition of hybrid and represents a new era of hybrid cloud solutions.\u201d said Macquarie Cloud Services Head of Azure, Naran McClung.&nbsp;\u201cAzure and private cloud, two disparate environments, promising different things, for different purposes, bound together to provide Australian businesses the choice, flexibility and agility needed to succeed.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>\u201cMacquarie Flex allows us to meet our customers wherever they are on their cloud journey,\u201d said Jonathan Staff, Head of Private Cloud, Macquarie Cloud Services. \u201cThrough our strong relationship with Dell Technologies and Microsoft, we can now arm Australian businesses with another lever to extract more value from their IT investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Steven Worrall, Managing Director, Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, said: \u201cMacquarie Flex represents a significant advancement in hybrid cloud solutions. By leveraging Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Macquarie Cloud Services is providing an unparalleled level of flexibility, security, and performance. This collaboration exemplifies our commitment to empowering Australian organisations with the tools and technologies needed to drive innovation and achieve their strategic goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Macquarie Flex, organisations now can deploy and run sensitive\/compliance-driven workloads in a private cloud whilst leveraging the benefits of Azure, diversify deployment locations to improve commercial viability, treat private cloud workloads as first-class citizens of Azure, as well as monitor, alert, report, backup, secure, manage and govern virtual workloads through one integrated toolset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This announcement follows the company\u2019s recent launch of Macquarie Guard, a full turnkey Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that automates practical guardrails into Azure services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur purpose is to help customers who have been traditionally underserved and overcharged,\u201d said McClung. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be leveraging our long-standing partnerships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies to deliver much needed new innovation to Australian businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie Flex brings true hybrid capabilities to Australian businesses\u00a0revolutionising the handling of critical workloads. In an Australian first, Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group, has leveraged strategic relationships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies to launch Macquarie Flex. 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