The New Zealand Government is radically rethinking its Health and Disability Sector

The Government yesterday announced its commitment to a long-term equity programme for health and disability. In part, the report was a response to the past lack of planning around digital technology.

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.

Soul Machines and the future of AI

Paul speaks with Greg Cross, Chief Executive at Soul Machines - and winner of NZ Hi-Tech Flying Kiwi award 2019 - on digital humans, artificial Intelligence, and boosting NZ innovation.

These 75 evidence-based innovations could add to our future of farming toolkit.

Why is it that some innovations gain mass appeal and uptake, whereas for others all we hear is a fleeting mention and nothing more?

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.

Total Utilities – The future of transport

David Spratt, of Counties Power Trust and Total Utilities, is back in studio talking to Dave Howden about the Tesla Model S100, his new appointment, transport challenges ahead, and the future of the power industry.

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?

How data and application availability opens the door to digital transformation

Whether the goal is to improve operational flexibility and innovation, optimise the customer experience or create new revenue sources, digital transformation has been on the business agenda for some years now.

Scary numbers: The real financial cost of IT downtime

With so many variables in play, it can be challenging for organisations to calculate what their application and data availability downtime really costs. This can prevent prioritisation and adequate investment to protect business operations, customer service standards and brand integrity.

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.