CareSuper kickstarts major cloud transition with Macquarie

Australian industry superannuation fund, CareSuper, has selected Macquarie Cloud Services to spearhead its cloud transition to the Microsoft Azure platform.

With over 573,000 members and $57 billion in funds under management (FUM), CareSuper made the move away from the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) environment due to the “modern, cost-efficient, and agile” Managed Edge Azure Local offering. 

The partnership will see Macquarie Cloud Services transfer hundreds of applications and petabytes (1,000 terabytes) of data to the new cloud system.

“Our goal is to optimise every part of our operation so we can deliver long-term value to our members,” Simon Reiter, Chief Technology Officer at CareSuper, said.

“Cloud decisions must serve that mission – not just today, but five years from now. Macquarie Cloud Services stood out as a partner who could deliver both the technical transformation and the ongoing managed service maturity required.

“What we’ve found in partnering with Macquarie Cloud Services is a team of experts who can transform, refactor, migrate, and ensure we get the best operational value from our cloud environment.

“That the company backs itself by taking on the cost risk of the migration phase is telling of its capabilities and commitment to putting customers first.”

The transition will see CareSuper’s tech stack consolidated into one “unified, secure and scalable platform”, enhancing the efficiency of the fund in streamlining backend output and delivering outcomes for members.

Macquarie Cloud Services is also one of few partners in the Asia Pacific region to maintain its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) status for four years in a row.

“We’re seeing a wave of repatriation from AWS,” Naran McClung, Head of Azure at Macquarie Cloud Services, said.

“For many organisations, rising costs, and architectural limitations have made them re-evaluate. But it’s not just about moving away – it’s about moving forward. That’s where our team adds value.

“We’ve seen our Azure team and business expand by about 20 per cent every year since we set it up in 2020.

“Becoming an Azure Expert MSP is not a lifetime achievement; it takes incredible dedication, assessments requiring dozens of the team to come together, and – most importantly – an ability to deliver value to customers time and time again.”