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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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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.
Managed Services
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.
Security
Fortinet’s plan to train one million cybersecurity workers
Cybersecurity specialist Fortinet has pledged to train one million people in five years in a bid to help meet a global cybersecurity skills gap.
Managed Services
Government IT, financial services the highlights in post-pandemic IT spending
When it came to the digital transformation required for society and the economy to function through the Covid-19 pandemic, we went ‘hard and early’ in our part of the world, to borrow the Prime Minister’s phrase.
Security
Top tips for MSPs: Protecting customers from phishing and ransomware
As small and medium businesses (SMBs) move to remote work environments, their tools for collaboration, such as Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Teams, and Zoom, create openings in their networks for increased cyber threats. This switch has Cybercriminals seeing SMBs as valid targets that are much easier to infiltrate than larger organisations.
Security
Is Cybersecurity a top 3 item for you?
There is no question that the cybersecurity landscape is shifting rapidly and, in turn, cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated. Incidents such as the recent breach at Waikato DHB point to the evidence of real-world consequences for organisations with dated vulnerabilities in their security infrastructure.
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How Datto Commerce simplifies procurement and minimises supply chain disruption
To say that the pandemic has been disruptive for businesses would be an understatement. Besides the shutdown of many businesses and an increasingly remote workforce, another major challenge has been the significant disruption to the supply chain across different industries as businesses closed down.
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First look: Windows 365 – Microsoft’s PC in the cloud is user-friendly but pricey
I’ll say it right upfront, Windows 365 is exactly what I’ve been seeking, for a long time.
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Umbrellar, recognised leader in Server Migrations to Azure awarded coveted Microsoft accreditation
Umbrellar, New Zealand's leading Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider to business, government, healthcare and CSP resellers, announced today that it has earned the coveted Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure advanced specialisation.
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What is cyber resilience and why is it important for MSPs?
An evolving threat landscape faced by businesses of all sizes has raised the stakes for prioritising and working toward cyber resilience. Cyber resilience may seem like an ambiguous term or maybe just another buzzword. Trust us – it’s a critical part of any business’s cybersecurity strategy and presents an opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) to better serve their clients.
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Mobile Mentor wins Microsoft Partner Award for its Zero-touch provisioning
Mobile Mentor beat out dozens of entries from around the world to win the end-point management category at last week’s Microsoft Partner Awards.
Managed Services
Who is Samantha Borg? Strategic Channel Manager NZ at Datto
As the Strategic Channel Manager for New Zealand, Samantha's core responsibility is to drive awareness and adoption of the Datto toolkit across the New Zealand Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. Samantha shares with us her career journey to date, her current reading list and that all-important dinner party guest list.
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Make data work for you in the ‘age of insight’ – HPE Discover 2021
The pandemic, more than anything else in recent years, has confirmed that data can inform better decision making, often with life-saving results.
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Ransomware in the Cloud: What Businesses Need to Know
For any organisation using cloud-based collaboration tools like Microsoft 365 OneDrive for Business or Google Workspace, the impact of a ransomware attack can be swift and destructive.
Security
Ransomware attacks are causing real damage – how to avoid the worst-case scenario
No one should give in to criminals’ ransomware demands. Investing upfront in security and employee education to avoid facing that awful dilemma will serve you well.
Managed Services
App modernisation: Everyone is doing it but how do you do it well?
Every organisation has its own unique story of digital transformation undertaken in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Security
How the pandemic brought to light the vulnerability of unmanaged cyber-risk
Need to get that Cyber confident feeling back after the hard-hit of Covid-19? Join industry experts as they dive deep into the way organisations manage the impact cyber-confidence can have in the digital age.
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Why a purpose-built, private cloud is a good fit for data protection
Data protection has evolved greatly over the days of on-prem tape backup. It wasn’t long ago that organisations sent their backup tapes offsite for storage in case of a disaster. And for large organisations, synchronous or asynchronous replication between data centres allowed for failover from the primary site to a secondary site in case of disaster.
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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.
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IBM banks on hybrid cloud and AI to get it back into growth mode
IBM’s Think 2021 virtual event this week was dominated by talk of artificial intelligence as a key tool of digital transformation and the company’s efforts to position itself as the lead player in hybrid cloud offerings.
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The deluge of Covid-related data and the AI helping doctors make sense of it
Last February, as the world woke up to the fact it was dealing with a deadly pandemic, something else was starting to go viral - misinformation.
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What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?
Business downtime can be costly. For small and medium sized businesses outsourcing disaster recovery is far less expensive than managing it in-house, DRaaS may be the solution they need to reduce business risk following an outage.
Security
Deal to streamline government uptake of SaaS – Q&A with TechnologyOne CEO Ed Chung
It’s been working with our local and central government agencies on software projects for years.
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Spark subsidiary taps Amazon Connect to help deliver contact centres in the cloud
Digital Island will draw on the scalability and attractive cost structure of Amazon Connect as it helps customers set up "omnichannel" cloud-based contact centres.
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From mussel buoys to rubbish bins – Spark’s ambitions for its IoT network
Spark's new innovation studio serves as a showcase of technology harnessing IoT and mobile networks to collect data in real-time to inform better decision making.
Managed Services
How to… 5 steps to avoid your web applications getting hacked
2021 has gotten off to an ominous start on the cybersecurity front, with a continuation of the more sophisticated hacking attacks that culminated in December with revelations about the major SolarWinds exploit.
Security
What’s an application modernisation strategy which is best for your organisation
Innovation-hungry businesses should look “up” rather than back.
Managed Services
Microsoft Ignite: Five key developments from the world’s largest software maker
Microsoft’s holographic video system Azure Mesh provided the sizzle at Microsoft’s virtual developer conference, but the underlying message was all about the accelerating power of working in the cloud.
Security
Why you should be modernising your legacy apps
Here’s a question with only one right answer: Do you want your organisation to be fragile or agile?
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Overcoming Covid technical debt: If it doesn’t bring you joy, ditch it!
With half of IT managers across Australasia admitting they are struggling with the legacy of IT systems hastily assembled during the pandemic, it's time to get out of the shadow of Covid technical debt.
