Macquarie Telecom's 'greenfield' data centre site in Fairbairn ACT has been added to the Federal Government's data centre facilities panel, even though Macquarie has not yet committed to building a data centre on the site. Also added is a site owned by Dell at Hume in the ACT.

OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."

The ACCC has released submissions received in response to the first round of its review of NBN Co's special access undertaking, and submitters are united in warning that it could result in NBN Co's Wholesale Broadband Agreement transcending legislation and the powers of the ACCC.

Macquarie Telecom has issued a damning assessment of Telstra's revised structural separation undertaking saying it fails to provide for equivalence, transparency, monitoring and compliance in an appropriate and effective manner.

According to Frost & Sullivan white paper, Australian data centres are ill-equipped to handle the shift to virtualisation and cloud computing.

  It's widely thought that you have to go offshore to get competitively priced cloud services. Ninefold says that ain't so.  

A group of Australian cloud computing providers have formed an alliance, the OzHub Coalition, with Australia's telecommunications consumer representative body, ACCAN, aiming to build local consumer and business confidence in cloud computing.

A report commissioned by Macquarie Telecom claims that Australia is positioned to be a world leader in creating the jobs and industry of the 21st century by becoming a cloud computing hub.

EMC has launched its Australian service provider partner program to support the company’s public and private cloud services, with initial partners already signed up to the highest tier of the program, including Telstra, Macquarie Telecom, Melbourne IT, Infoplex, Dimension Data and CSC.

Macquarie Telecom's 'click wrap' cloud service provider subsidiary, Ninefold, has announced that its cloud storage service - claimed to be the first of its kind in Australia – is now out of public beta and in full production.