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Mobile Mentor and Zero Trust: a modern workplace methodology
The biggest challenge for organisations today revolves around avoiding a data breach. Recent events in Australia - Optus, the second largest telecommunications company in the country, had identifying details of up to 9.8 million customers stolen from their database - only serve to highlight the importance of protecting your customer data.
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Mobile Mentor and Zero Trust: a modern workplace methodology
The biggest challenge for organisations today revolves around avoiding a data breach. Recent events in Australia - Optus, the second largest telecommunications company in the country, had identifying details of up to 9.8 million customers stolen from their database - only serve to highlight the importance of protecting your customer data.
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Podcast: Managed Services gets you the cloud environment you wanted
It's easy to move into the cloud but what about ongoing management? Who's got the time or the experience for that? Short answer - Umbrellar.
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Mind the GDAP: bulk migration tool available til October 31st
If the whole DAP/GDAP transition has you scratching your head, don’t worry. We go through what it all means, what you need to do and why this is actually a very good change of policy from Microsoft.
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Podcast: Endless possibilities – how the cloud empowers us to do more
Umbrellar's Rob Farnell (Head of Cloud Technology) and Adrian Venter (Head of Cloud Operations ... aka Supreme Overlord 😎) talk tech with Head of Business Operations Nadia Phillips.
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Defending against data loss
Datto shines the spotlight on data safety for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in this piece outlining the importance on dependable backups and a purpose-built cloud.
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2degrees Fights for Fair for Kiwi Business
2degrees is once again Fighting for Fair for Kiwi Business, this time working with Microsoft and Umbrellar to deliver a streamlined ride to the cloud, with the launch of its new Cloud Navigator service.
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Defend and protect your Microsoft Teams data with Datto
While Microsoft assures service availability to Microsoft Teams' 270 million monthly active users, that guarantee doesn't stretch to the data within. It's up to your organisation to implement an integrated solution that provides your Teams users with data backup plus advanced threat protection. Datto shares how they can help you do that.
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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.
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6 transformations to disrupt your legacy IT operations
Mobile Mentor rounds out their Zero Trust series with a summary of "Six pillars of Modern Endpoint Management" and a link to download the full whitepaper. It highlights why we can't continue with legacy IT operations and how disrupting the status quo will have your IT team thanking you.
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Looming cybersecurity trends for 2022 and beyond
As we transition into 2022, cybersecurity leaders have a lot to think about when it comes to ensuring the future protection of their organisations.
Security
Zero Trust – At Scale
Zero Trust can be implemented with E3 but it can only be scaled effectively, with a high degree of automation, using E5. Mobile Mentor outlines the main security enhancements to a Zero Trust architecture, at scale, using Microsoft 365 E5 licenses.
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Getting started with Zero Trust
Legacy security based on a network perimeter, or a castle and moat approach, is no longer fit for purpose. Mobile Mentor outlines how a zero trust architecture can be deployed using Microsoft 365 E3 licences in this second article in the Zero Trust series.
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Why you need complete data protection
The question "How can I protect my clients' data?" is now key for MSPs - and one that's become increasingly complicated to answer. Datto takes us through the challenges and how Datto Unified Continuity offers a cohesive solution.
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Windows 11: a new era for the PC
The last two years have profoundly changed how we live our lives, with the PC playing a more meaningful role than ever. New behaviours that were born out of necessity have evolved into habits as people and organisations reevaluate priorities through a new lens.
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The underlying principles of Zero Trust
Mobile Mentor is a global leader in the endpoint ecosystem and Microsoft’s 2021 Partner of the Year. Certified by Microsoft, Apple and Google, their engineers live and breathe endpoint security and work tirelessly with clients to balance endpoint security with an empowering employee experience.
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Nominations open for 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards acknowledge outstanding successes and innovations by partners in over 100 countries and in a wide variety of categories, including partner competencies, cloud to edge technologies, entrepreneurial spirit and social impact.
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Mobile Mentor’s award-winning Zero-touch provisioning
Mobile Mentor beat out dozens of entries from around the world to win the end-point management category at last year's Microsoft Partner Awards.
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Microsoft New Commerce Experience Launch Promotion
**URGENT UPDATE** Due to high demand leading up to the March 1, 2022 Modern Work pricing change, Microsoft has created a transitional grace period.
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Simplifying Cloud Management for Azure
Building a cloud practice with Microsoft Azure presents many possibilities for innovation, flexibility, and enhancements for workloads and processes. But managing cloud environments can be challenging. If you're a Managed Service Provider, you'll want to read this.
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Webinar: Microsoft NCE – more opportunities to grow your CSP business
Microsoft's new commerce experience is not just offering more flexible subscription terms for customers - there are also competitive pricing deals for monthly and annual terms available until June 30, 2022.
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Microsoft’s new commerce experience in simple terms
Microsoft's roll-out of its new commerce experience for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Windows 365 has begun. We unpack what this means, both for Cloud Service Providers and the customers they serve.
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Datto helps Gore District Council avoid downtime during server relocation
The Gore District Council (GDC) is a local authority in Southland, New Zealand with a population of just over 12,000. The district’s economy is led by the primary sector while the community prides itself on its public gardens, recreational areas and street plantings, as well as its culture and history.
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The consequences of mailbox attacks and remote working
In our Work From Home pandemic world, NTT's Patric Balmer explains what Kiwi businesses should be doing to protect themselves against mailbox attacks.
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‘Hope is not lost’ – 2021 saw governments start to take cybersecurity seriously
Microsoft’s Digital Defence Report for 2021 is a sobering read. Over its 134 pages, it catalogues the sophisticated playbook of a global network of cybercriminals.
Security
How to protect endpoints with multi-level security strategy
Malware and ransomware infection rates are increasing, this year alone, malware increased by 358% overall, and ransomware increased by 435% as compared to 2019.
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A smart city is a greener city – and our cities have to get smarter
When the world’s nations come together in Glasgow next month for the COP26 conference, there will no doubt be fierce debate as climate diplomats, including our own climate change minister James Shaw, over attempts to renew emissions reduction targets.
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Datto Continuity for Microsoft Azure has arrived
Public cloud adoption is rapidly increasing for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs): A forecast from Gartner, Inc. anticipates worldwide spending by end users on public cloud services to grow 23.1% in 2021.
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APEC countries make sluggish progress on digital trade and regulations
With APEC member countries representing 2.8 billion citizens and accounting for nearly 75% of New Zealand exports, the multilateral institution is an important club for us to belong to.
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What Amazon’s $7.5 billion investment means for NZ’s cloud computing market
It’s a rare event to see a multinational tech company announce a multibillion-dollar investment in New Zealand.
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Four essential tips for Azure Virtual Machine protection
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are gravitating to Microsoft Azure in ever-greater numbers. Azure offers high degrees of scalability, coding flexibility, ease of access to Microsoft’s vast app ecosystem, sophisticated automation, and AI readiness, giving it numerous advantages in the cloud infrastructure space.
