{"id":11755,"date":"2017-11-08T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:47:35","slug":"data-centre-growth-new-group-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/data-centre-growth-new-group-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up with growing data centre demand \u2013 David Hirst\u2019s appointment as Group Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12280\" src=\"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Hirst.jpg\" alt=\"David Hirst, Group Executive\" width=\"500\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Hirst.jpg 700w, https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Hirst-250x306.jpg 250w, https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Hirst-120x147.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\">Macquarie Technology Group<\/a> today announced it has promoted David Hirst to the position of Group Executive and given him a leading role in developing the company\u2019s data centre expansion plan.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\">Macquarie Technology Group <\/a>data centres and cloud services has seen strong growth in the existing three data centres in Sydney and Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>Macquarie Technology Group announced in August that it is examining whether to \u201cbuild or buy\u201d additional capacity to keep ahead of customer demand for cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe global mega trend to adopt hybrid IT is fuelling demand for our services. Including everything from co-location to back-up-as-a-service and private cloud. We have a clear focus on investing strategically to stay ahead of the market,\u201d Mr Hirst said.<\/p>\n<p>David Hirst has been a key member of the Macquarie Technology Group leadership team since joining the business nine years ago, working on the strategy for the existing data centres and cloud business.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Good people and customer centric focus driving demand<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cThe combination of a good culture, focused strategy and an obsessive commitment to delivering world class customer service is driving our strong growth, and making Macquarie Technology Group a dynamic place to work,\u201d Mr Hirst said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to be able to play a central role in driving the next phase of the company\u2019s growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recognition of the quality and depth of the investment we have made continues, and is attracting more and more market interest as the uniqueness of Macquarie Technology Group\u2019s business model becomes better understood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest example of recognition was achieving certification from the Australian Signals Directorate to host Commonwealth data classified to PROTECTED level, making us the only scale cloud provider to achieve this distinction.\u201d Mr Hirst said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie Technology Group today announced it has promoted David Hirst to the position of Group Executive and given him a leading role in developing the company\u2019s data centre expansion plan. Demand for Macquarie Technology Group data centres and cloud services has seen strong growth in the existing three data centres in Sydney and Canberra. Macquarie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,44],"tags":[41,71,28,380,222,464,463,276,45],"class_list":["post-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hosting-3","category-news","tag-customer-service","tag-cyber-security","tag-data-centre","tag-data-centre-provider","tag-data-centres","tag-david-hirst","tag-group-executive","tag-macquarie-telecom-group","tag-nps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Macquarie Technology Group - 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