Delivered through Macquarie Hosting's data centre, the solution uses VMware software to deliver customers additional capacity and scalability on demand.

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, today launched its dedicated managed virtualisation hosting solution.

Delivered out of Macquarie Hosting's data centre, the Intellicentre, the solution uses VMware software to deliver customers additional capacity and scalability on demand. The availability and redundancy is provided via Macquarie Telecom's multi-vendor data network which provides fault-tolerant redundancy and security.

The company explains that the VMware software permits designated servers in the Macquarie Hosting data centre to be partitioned into multiple 'virtual' machines. Customers are then provided their own virtual private server or virtual server farm, the capacity of which can be scaled up or down depending on their specific needs.

"We have customers that need scalability on demand. That means within hours, not the days that have previously been required for more complex hardware or service set up," said Greg Thomson, Group Executive, Hosting and Security, Macquarie Telecom.