Archives For 2017.

David Tudehope on ABC’s The Business talking about Macquarie’s intention to purchase Bulletproof Networks Macquarie Technology Group CEO David Tudehope talking about Macquarie’s intention to purchase the listed Cloud provider Bulletproof Networ...

12 billion Container image pulls (DockerCon 2017) and counting – it is no wonder Containerisation and virtualisation are hot topics in the industry today. There has been a large-scale adoption of Containers by large businesses across many verticals...

Dedicated servers are the backbone of many organisations. Dedicated servers are what makes the magic possible. Oftentimes, it can be easy to fall into a rut of choosing the cheapest option. It some ways it seems to make good business sense – you’...

According to a study by Gartner, the number one business priority for CEOs this year is growth. This is up from 42% last year. Coming in a close second is technology. For many CEOs, these two goals go hand in hand. CEOs are looking for areas to enabl...

Hybrid cloud adoption is accelerating. A report from McKinsey found that 77% of companies relied on traditional IT infrastructure in 2015. That number will shrink to 43% by next year as organisations migrate to the cloud. In fact, by next year, at le...

Disaster recovery used to be out-of-this-world expensive. Every business has a need for business continuity. But, it was only the largest enterprises that could afford it. For most businesses, tape backups were the best stopgap between a full-fledged...

When IT experts are asked, “Public or private?” They usually have one answer: both. The hybrid cloud can appear to be a panacea. Avoid all the cons and get all the pros by adopting both a private and public cloud. You’ll be able to innovate fas...

Backups are not the same thing as a disaster recovery plan. It’s not intuitive. It seems like if you have a copy of the data saved somewhere you should be good. The hitch is that just because you have the data doesn’t mean you can use it immedia...

Hybrid cloud is here to stay. The future will not roll back to in-house everything. Companies moving forward will need to embrace the cloud in a big way to stay in the game. Startups built in the cloud are dominating many areas because the cloud add...

IT is fundamentally shifting from a build to consume model. The anything-as-a-service (XaaS) model shifts the way IT is consumed by offering it in packages as predictable expenses with predictable outcomes. Traditional IT is about developing products...