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XDR in Cybersecurity: Why “Better Together” Isn’t a Buzzword
|Cybersecurity is chaotic, messy, and evolving every thirty seconds. One minute you’re patching endpoints, the next you’re worrying about shadow IT living in the cloud, and your “fancy” security solutions don’t even talk to each other. Siloe...
Unleashing the Power of Azure Local HCI: A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
|Hybrid cloud. Everyone’s got an opinion. Some reckons it’s the future, others say it’s a headache nobody asked for. The truth? Hybrid cloud is here to stay, and Azure Local HCI is one of the sharpest tools in the box if you want the best of “...
Mastering Hybrid Cloud Management with Azure Arc
|Hybrid cloud management used to be ugly. Sprawling servers in your data centre. Gaps in governance. Compliance scattered from here to next Tuesday. Azure Arc flips all of that on its head. Now, you can manage, secure, and govern your entire IT estate...
Azure Sentinel & Your SOC: How to Supercharge Threat Detection
|You want your Security Operations Centre (SOC) to be slick, responsive, and ahead of every new threat. Microsoft’s Azure Sentinel is designed to make it happen. But what actually is Sentinel? How does it fit into an existing SOC strategy, and what ...
Leadership in the Cloud: James Mystakidis on Growth, Culture and the Future of Tech
|In this exclusive Intelligent CIO APAC interview, James Mystakidis, Group Executive of Macquarie Cloud Services, shares the leadership philosophies and strategic decisions behind one of Australia’s fastest-growing cloud and security businesses. ...
Azure MSPs Demystified: How to Choose the Team That’ll Actually Have Your Back
|Need a team that wrangles your Azure cloud, keeps you secure, and “just makes stuff work” so you can focus on, well, literally anything else? That’s what Azure Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are for. But with so much jargon in the mix (raise ...
Cloud Repatriation Is Real - Here’s What AWS Customers Should Know
|Public cloud repatriation is a growing trend that has been gaining momentum, particularly as organisations reconsider their IT strategies. Businesses that once trusted Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its scalable, flexible infrastructure and pay-as-you...
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Real Tactics for IT Leaders
|Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth. Nobody likes thinking about downtime, data loss, or explaining to your board why the whole system is offline. But disasters happen. From cyberattacks to coffee spills on laptops (don’t laugh – that’s ...
Secrets of a Smooth Azure Migration (with Less Stress and More Savings)
|You’d be hard-pressed to find an IT manager who hasn’t been tasked with “get us to the cloud” in the last few years. There’s good reason for it. But just because Azure is the logical next step doesn’t make migration a walk in the park. Be...
Komatsu Australia partners with Macquarie Cloud Services to modernise cloud infrastructure
|Komatsu Australia has signed a multi-year, multimillion-dollar partnership with Macquarie Cloud Services to modernise and strengthen its cloud infrastructure. Komatsu Australia has entered a multi-year, multimillion-dollar partnership with Macquar...