With the increasing market demand for Australian-based cloud services, Macquarie Telecom, Australia’s number one managed hosting and business-only telecommunications company, unveiled its Australian-based Enterprise Managed Cloud offering, Macquarie Telecom (News - Alert) Enterprise Cloud.

Current industry-wide concern inhibiting cloud adoption around data residency, latency, security, risk and compliance, management options, performance as well as reliability and customer service are some the of the issues addressed by the new Macquarie Telecom service. In a release, Aidan Tudehope, managing director of hosting at Macquarie Telecom said, “This strategic investment is the next step in the evolution of Macquarie Telecom as a major player in the Australian hosting and telecommunications market. Our commitment to providing enterprise cloud services in Australia directly reflects customer demand and market sentiment for locally based enterprise-grade cloud services.”

By offering guaranteed, Integrated Infrastructure as a Service (IIaaS), Macquarie Telecom Enterprise Cloud has the ability to scale cost-effectively so as to accommodate Australian organizations and enterprise IE departments.  Ranging from Macquarie Telecom managed servers to customer’s co-located servers, including company’s existing in-house infrastructure over a WAN or private VPN, the cloud burst is likely take place anywhere. Intellicentre is Macquarie Telecom’s locally based, owned and staffed highly certified T4data center that will strengthen the IIaaS offering. Furthermore, to efficiently handle the cloud, Macquarie Telecom Enterprise Cloud does not require companies to rewrite applications unlike competitive Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. This hardware and operating system neutral solution further enhances rapid adoption of the cloud.

Organizations such as corporate IT departments, web developers, corporate customers, ecommerce customers and virtual co-location customers as well as web-centric customers will be targeted specifically by Macquarie Telecom Enterprise Cloud, thus leveraging on-demand production ready infrastructure that adapts to fluctuating needs. Customers with specific requirements can select from various ‘Always Ready’ cloud offerings catering to predicted and unpredicted usage scenarios that offer real-time provisioning.

By making use of Macquarie Telecom’s online management tool InView, customers will be able to enjoy real-time reporting service along with itemized end-to-end billing in arrears, thus getting rid of credit card payments dealing for the service. Consequently, businesses will make use of this feature to re-introduce true charge back capability by department for efficient consumption of IT services.