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Crucial Questions Companies Should Answer Before a Cloud Migration
|Lost in the cloud. Ignorance is not bliss. A long-standing myth about cloud is that it is simple. It simply is not. The reality is that when it comes to the cloud, what you don’t know can hurt you. Companies attempting a go-it-alone cloud migration...
Why Is Hybrid Cloud Emerging as the Dominant Deployment Model?
|Why Cloud? Let us count the ways. Cloud brings a new model to IT, one based on the delivery of services rather than the delivery of technology. With cloud computing as the foundation for IT modernisation, organisations can reduce capital expenditure...
Keys to Successfully Undertake a Hybrid Cloud Migration
|In IT today, all signs are pointing in one direction: to the cloud. By 2020, nearly 70% of all enterprise IT spending across the globe will be for cloud-based offerings1. In Australia, a hybrid IT strategy—incorporating a mix of on-premise and colo...
Don’t Forget The Basics of Network Security (Part 2)
|In an earlier article, we looked at network security basics and how we can borrow guidance from the PCI Data Security Standard to make sure our firewall rules are documented and reviewed on a regular basis. This articl...
The Best Way to Test Your Disaster Recovery Plan for Quality Assurance
|A disaster recovery plan is probably the most ambitious, hardest, all-encompassing task an IT department will take on. If you’ve written a disaster recovery plan, take a moment and pat yourself on the back. Congratulations! Now, once you’ve reste...
Don’t Forget the Basics of Network Security (Part 1)
|It seems every week you read a story about unsecured databases being exposed on the Internet, information being held for ransom, or even children’s teddy bears being attacked without their owner’s knowledge. While ...
Hybrid Infrastructure Is the Future of Hosting (According to Gartner)
|Gartner, Inc. just released an industry report stating that within three years, 90% of organisations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management. “As the demand for agility and flexibility grows, organisations will shift toward more industrialised,...
Why you Should Invest in Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan?
|The short answer is yes. If your business has an online component (pro tip: it should), then your business is vulnerable to bugs, hackers, hardware failures, natural disasters, interruptions to business continuity (and therefore lost revenues), and s...
Macquarie Cloud Services to power Dell’s push into Australian Cloud
|Macquarie Technology Group’s cloud business unit has secured Virtustream, a Dell Technologies company, as a significant new customer. “We are delighted to provide local infrastructure for the Dell cloud to be delivered in-country, across multiple...
Business Continuity VS Disaster Recovery
|Do you know how much an hour of downtime costs your business? Most business owners don’t. Studies show that for small to mid-sized businesses, an hour of downtime averages around $12,500 per hour. Now, for most non-IT gurus, 99.99% uptime sounds li...