Macquarie Cloud Services is Australia's most recommended cloud provider, trusted by business, higher education, and government to deliver secure, high-performance infrastructure with local expertise and award-winning support.
Part of ASX-listed Macquarie Technology Group, we operate sovereign, certified data centres across Australia, purpose-built for organisations where security, compliance, and performance are non-negotiable.
Our Approach to Higher Education
We understand the unique pressures facing universities and research institutions: constrained budgets, growing data demands, complex compliance requirements, and the need to modernise aging infrastructure without disrupting critical operations.
Our mission is straightforward: make cloud work better for organisations that can't afford to get it wrong. That means secure, cost-effective infrastructure backed by real people who understand university environments and priorities.
CAUDIT Cloud
Developed in collaboration with CAUDIT and powered by Dell Technologies, CAUDIT Cloud is built specifically for the needs of the sector. The platform supports everything from core academic and administrative systems to AI workloads and data-intensive research computing.
CAUDIT Cloud helps institutions:
- Replatform critical systems with confidence and minimal disruption.
- Reduce public cloud costs while maintaining or improving capability.
- Support large-scale research workloads and data storage requirements.
- Meet compliance frameworks including IRAP, ISO 27001, and ASD Essential Eight.
Why CAUDIT Members Choose Us
Sovereign hosting, flexible service models and a deep understanding of university IT operations. Through our partnership with CAUDIT and commitment to the sector, we help institutions move faster, control costs, and maintain sovereignty over its most critical systems and data.
Follow along with Macquarie Cloud Services and their 2026 CAUDIT Engagement Partner interactions listed below
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CAUDIT Cloud - Purpose-built cloud for research institutions and education.
Meeting with the CAUDIT CEO
11 March 2026
CAUDIT Members are welcome to contribute their questions to this meeting, please contact the Partner Program.
Showcase #1 - CAUDIT Cloud: Industry update
Macquarie Cloud Services will provide an update on product development initiatives and recent releases for CAUDIT Cloud.
When: 14 May 2026 1pm - 2pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom Webinar
Showcase #2 - From Data Governance to Token Economics: What our AI builds taught us
Macquarie Cloud Services will share the lessons from building and operating their Tier 0 AI capability, including how they approached data sovereignty, model choice, identity, MCP tooling and token economics. They will explore why private compute makes sense for steady-state workloads, where frontier models still fit, and what changes when AI moves from human-triggered chat to autonomous, always-on agents. The Showcase will finish with practical architectural choices institutions can make today to keep their AI workloads portable, governed and economically sustainable.
When: 10 September 1pm - 2pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom Webinar
Macquarie Cloud Services Event 2026 - Sharing the GPU: Can Research and Institutional IT Build AI Capacity Together?
Macquarie Cloud Services will be at the 2026 eResearch Australasia Conference, hosting a half-day workshop at the MCG on 26 October..
As demand for research compute and institutional AI grows, the workshop will bring researchers, university IT leaders and shared infrastructure operators together to explore how GPU capacity could be used more effectively. The discussion will consider the practical realities of cost recovery, grant acquittal, ethics, governance, sovereignty, security and risk, and examine the trade-offs between institutional, shared and national capacity.
Join Macquarie Cloud Services at eResearch Australasia, hosted by Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) Inc, for a practical discussion about what workable models could look like.
Read more about the event here.
When: 26 October, Monday afternoon session
Where: MCG, Melbourne
CAUDIT Newsletter Article - Public, open-weight or dedicated? A CIO’s guide to the next phase of university AI
September 2026
Public AI services are the natural starting point for most universities. But as experimentation turns into production, CIOs face new choices around model capability, cost, control, sovereignty, and infrastructure.
Macquarie Cloud Services explores when universities should continue using public AI, when open-weight models start to make sense, and when shared, dedicated or GPU-based capacity may be appropriate for different workloads.
Read more to explore a practical framework for choosing the right model and infrastructure for the right workload.
Meeting with the CAUDIT Executive Committee
16 September 2026
CAUDIT Members are welcome to contribute their questions to this meeting, please contact the Partner Program.
Macquarie Cloud Services contact details for CAUDIT Members
Name: Karl Napper, Head of CAUDIT Cloud
Email: knapper@macquariecloudservices.com
Phone: +61 420 958 068
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