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Aidan Tudehope is managing director of hosting at Macquarie Telecom. Macquarie Telecom offers managed hosting services from two of its own facilities in Sydney. The first, IC1, is a 3.5MW, DSD-certified facility with clients including the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, WebJet and Quickflix. The second is a $60 million 8MW facility due to open within the next few months in Macquarie Park with News Limited named as an anchor tenant. Macquarie Telecom’s focus has traditionally been around superior customer service. But the new Macquarie Park provides a new opportunity: it is the first design-certified facility in South-East Asia to be certified Tier III by the Uptime Institute, pointing to a new standard of operational and power efficiency. Aidan has managed the technology operations of Macquarie Telecom for close to 20 years.