Perth-based national IT services provider Empired has been selected by Microsoft as the launch partner for its cloud computing platform Azure for its Central Regions datacentres in Canberra.
Empired says Azure will provide Government and highly-regulated organisations the opportunity to deploy their mission-critical workloads to the cloud.
According to Empired, until now, Australian organisations with rigorous security, resilience, connectivity, or supply chain integrity requirements have typically shied away from cloud-based infrastructure, and the adoption of cloud across these sectors across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has been slow because there has been “no real, achievable way for them to take the leap securely”.
Empired says with the introduction of Microsoft’s Azure Australia Central Regions, cloud-first is now a real possibility for government and critical industries across ANZ.
{loadposition peter}The company says the new region is designed to support mission-critical systems and address the needs of government and critical national infrastructure commercial organisations looking to move their specialised and sensitive workloads to the cloud.
“As a Microsoft partner, we are proud to play a role in accelerating the opportunity to digitally transform Government and the operations of critical infrastructure,” said Russell Baskerville, managing director, Empired.
Simon Bright, chief operating officer, Empired said, “Empired was chosen as a launch partner because of its client base across ANZ which includes heavy involvement in government along with our existing Cohesion cloud-based enterprise content management (ECM) service. We are now building out a Cohesion platform in the Azure Central Region and expect strong interest now that the secure Azure Central Region is available to support it.”