Macquarie signs up Collaboro for multi-year, multi-petabyte storage deal

Macquarie Cloud Services has signed up digital asset management company Collaboro to store and preserve more than 3.5 petabytes (PB) in a multi-year deal.

Collaboro offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to centrally store, manage, surface and share large-scale digital media asset libraries.

The company currently works with multiple companies and enterprise marketing teams, including McDonald’s Australia and New Zealand, Optus, Sportsbet, Youi and the NSW Department of Education, among others, with all its assets coming to over 3.5PB.

Collaboro sought alternatives to its previous public cloud solution and chose Macquarie Cloud Services to develop a unique solution leveraging its Launch Private Cloud, which is built on Dell Technologies infrastructure solutions, including Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage and Dell PowerEdge Servers.

It also uses a high-speed Megaport cloud bandwidth connection and is contained and managed by Macquarie Data Centres’ sovereign, government-certified facilities.

The end solution does not provide egress and ingress – data transfers to and from the cloud, respectively – charges, which is beneficial for Collaboro as these costs associated with its previous platform were starting to skyrocket.