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Officer , Opal Group . “ This was petabytes of data , 85 virtual machines , and it was all tied to our most critical workloads including SAP financial systems and operational applications .
“ We reviewed options from a range of providers tied to each major cloud player , and the Macquarie and Azure combination stood out . We had confidence in their partnership and the dual accountability that came with it , their sensible proposal , commercial flexibility , and – most importantly – confidence in their ability to get the job done under a tight deadline .”
The Macquarie and Azure team worked closely with Boon ’ s team , as well as manufacturing technology partner Realtech which helped manage SAP applications to successfully transition services and
The credential required a huge four-month effort of more than 1,000 hours from 40 members of Macquarie ’ s team .
workloads into Macquarie ’ s cloud environment . This was stored within its sovereign Data Center Campus and delivered on time and on budget .
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Buoyed by the successful transition and muchimproved cloud environment , Opal is now looking at
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