Auckland Transport greenlights landmark Microsoft cloud agreement

Migration to new hyperscale datacenter region promises greater innovation, sustainability and skills to deliver the future of transport.

Conscious Cloud: Microsoft’s Aotearoa datacentre pledge

Microsoft's datacentre region will be powered by 100% carbon free energy from Day One. Russell Craig, Microsoft New Zealand's National Technology Officer, shares what this investment in our technological and environmental future will look like.

Podcast: What will the new Microsoft Data Centre mean for the country – and your business?

Umbrellar CEO David Howden and Head of Business Operations Nadia Phillips took some time out to talk to Microsoft's Patrick Quesnel and Jimmy Kerr about the upcoming launch of the new Microsoft datacenter region in New Zealand. Are you ready for it?

Enghouse Interactive Chooses Azure for Asia Pacific CCaaS Node

Enghouse Interactive, Microsoft and Umbrellar have partnered to harness the power of Azure, establishing an Australian and New Zealand node to make shifting your customer service operations to the cloud easier.

It’s not all about the public cloud – Chorus eyes up market for edge computing services

The Courtenay Place telephone exchange in central Wellington is like a living museum charting the history of telecommunications in our country.

BNZ to join Fonterra as anchor tenant in new Azure region

Microsoft has another anchor tenant lined up for the new data centre region it will open here, with BNZ moving in as part of a major cloud migration push at the bank.

What’s behind the cloud giants’ local infrastructure push?

Investments by Amazon and Microsoft point to a market with strong growth potential in the digital space, pandemic resilience and faith in our local networking infrastructure.

The role of the state in technological leadership – a New Zealand perspective

As we enter what the World Economic Forum has termed the Fourth Economic Revolution, New Zealand’s future prosperity is highly dependent on its ability to adopt technology and engage with technological solutions. Government doesn’t tend to be as agile as business, but future government is being pressured to keep up.

Pandemic has sharpened focus on data recovery – Veeam

As organisations across Australia adapt to the 'new normal' of living with Covid-19, Veeam has been helping customers make sure their data is secure, accessible and easily recoverable if disaster strikes.

Azure in the virtual datacentre: Rehosting guide

Here are the 5 major steps to set your business up for migration to the Microsoft Cloud, for those starting on their digital transformation journey.

The Digital Council’s advice to the New Zealand Government about building an empowered digital economy, post pandemic

Yesterday, the Digital Council, the Government's digital advisory group, released its statement of recommendations post-COVID-19 recovery. I spoke to Mitchell Pham, Council Chair, just after the release, for more detail.

Bill Gates’ gearing focus to philanthropic over Microsoft

Microsoft co-founder and social technologist, Bill Gates, is stepping down from the company’s Board of Directors into a Technology Advisor role to concentrate more on his philanthropic initiatives, the company announced Friday afternoon.

Using the cloud to boost telecommunications

One of New Zealand’s leading telcos and Microsoft’s Partner of the Year are joining forces to help New Zealand businesses in their digital transformation.

Modern Service Management for Azure

Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs) – Are they right for you?

Reserve virtual machines in advance and save up to 80 percent. How?

A conversation with Telesmart – Ring, ring, hello?

Geof Robinson, Co-founder and Director of Telesmart talks with Julie Cooper, Umbrellar Partner Manager. An insightful conversation about Telesmart, the road map of traditional telephony, his learnings and more.

Umbrellar and Microsoft: Bringing brilliance to Kiwi businesses

Umbrellar's leadership team share the story behind our transformation, and how in collaboration with Microsoft how we first brought hyperscale cloud to New Zealand

The opportunity of the Cloud

For those immersed in the dynamic and ever-evolving world of business IT, there is often precious little time to stop and consider just how fast and comprehensively the business world has changed over the last decade because of the cloud, and what that might mean for the next decade.

Talking IT availability to employees, customers and shareholders

What place do your backup and recovery levels hold in employee and customer communications? Are they proudly mentioned as a key benefit of your organisation or loosely referred to in a ‘we take it seriously' statement somewhere in an appendix or regulatory statement?

Is your data backup solution out of the ark?

In the presence of constant pressure to meet the expectations of internal and external customers for continuous product and service innovation, capabilities that are well hidden from view can linger continuously at the back of the funding queue.

Too busy to back up? Automate! Replicate!

“We don’t have time!” is the most common reason people give for not backing up their data and applications. And it’s particularly true in small-to-medium businesses, where bad IT habits can be hard to break. Yet effective backing up is one of the easiest things to automate.