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Macquarie Flex brings true hybrid capabilities to Australian businesses revolutionising the handling of critical workloads

COMPANY NEWS: In an Australian first, Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ), has leveraged strategic relationships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies, to launch Macquarie Flex.

Telstra is expanding two in-house developed generative AI solutions following ‘promising pilots’ with frontline team members, enabling faster and more successful interactions with customers.

Microsoft will spend $5 billion in Australia over the next two years, expanding its data centres from 20 to 29 and also setting up a datacentre academy along with TAFE NSW.

Public cloud adoption is set to surge in the ANZ region and by 2026 will generate billions of dollars in new revenue for organisations within the cloud technology ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand, according to a newly published whitepaper.

Microsoft will support agribusiness Elders’ technology modernisation and innovation plans to improve its customer experience, security, and sustainability under a five-year partnership.

What's in the box with the spots? Microsoft Azure! Globally, Domino's Pizza Enterprises opened 285 new stores last year and plans to open a further 500 this financial year. To power the expansion Domino's has signed a three-year agreement with Microsoft to accelerate the modernisation and expansion plans with Azure.

Microsoft has signed a three-year strategic technology and services agreement with Domino’s Pizza Enterprises which will use Azure to help accelerate the company’s modernisation and expansion plans.

Microsoft is to supply the backbone cloud technologies for Woolworths’ SAP solutions as the retailer migrates its current SAP footprint to Azure, paving the way for the upgrade path to SAP S/4HANA.

The Australian Department of Defence will use Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to host SAP/4HANA which will form the foundation of its new enterprise resource planning system.

Microsoft is partnering with Kakadu National Park rangers and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, in a pioneering program mixing “responsible” artificial intelligence and modern science with traditional knowledge to solve complex environmental management problems, and care for animal species and habitats.

Microsoft Australia is extending its traineeship program to Victoria in partnership with the Victorian Government and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

A new traineeship program by Microsoft Australia, which launched in NSW in late 2018, will expand to South Australia in September this year. It is designed to help build workforce capability in information technology and cloud computing, and increase IT traineeships in the state.

Microsoft and partner companies are working with the NSW Department of Education and the Aboriginal Education and Communities Directorate in a program aimed at safeguarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and language, through Australia’s first augmented reality and digital skills initiative, The Njulgang Project.

Australian stands to add $45 billion to the country’s GDP by 2021 from digital transformation, according to a new study which also estimates it could increase the nation’s growth rate by 0.5% annually.

Australia and Australian organisations must take a digital leadership position to compete in the digital economy — tipped to be worth up to $250 billion to the Australian economy over the next eight years — according to Microsoft Australia’s managing director Steven Worrall.

Microsoft’s SQL (pronounced ‘sequel’) Server 2016 has no "equal" if you want a product that runs equally well on-premise, hybrid, and cloud – well, that's according to Microsoft.