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22 June 2026
Everything we have built at Micron21 over the past two decades has been designed around one idea: uptime. Our Tier IV certified data centre is designed for uptime. Our global network, AS38880, is designed for uptime. Our DDoS protection is designed to k...
19 June 2026
Colocation looks simple from the outside: rack space, power, cooling, done. That illusion is exactly how businesses end up with their hardware in the wrong facility. Your servers might hold years of intellectual property, customer data and revenue-gener...
19 June 2026
Most articles comparing colocation with on-premise server rooms are written by people who have only ever sold one side of the argument. I am in an unusual position: I have lived both. Micron21, today an Uptime Institute certified Tier IV data centre ope...
18 June 2026
Every IT manager, CTO and business owner eventually faces the same practical question: colocation vs cloud hosting. Should you own your hardware and house it in a professional facility, or buy infrastructure as a service and never touch a server again?<...
12 June 2026
If your business runs online (and today, whose doesn’t?), the building your infrastructure lives in matters far more than most people realise. Your website, your applications, your data and your customers’ trust all ultimately depend on phys...
29 May 2026
It's always been true that keeping your systems up-to-date is one of the most important things you can do to remain secure. And as our long-time readers will know, it's a topic we cover often – not because we want to sound like a bro...
28 May 2026
Whatever industry your business is in, your IT systems are almost certainly the backbone of how you operate day-to-day. Whether it's the website that drives your sales, the email platform your staff rely on to communicate, the line-of-business...
30 April 2026
Last month we touched on the Essential Eight, which are the prioritised mitigation strategies and guidance provided by the...
30 March 2026
There are many different approaches and strategies that organisations can choose when looking to secure their systems. And one of the most widely adopted frameworks in Australia is the Essential Eight maturity model. This is the official fra...
25 February 2026
With the costs of all cloud infrastructure seemingly going through the roof, and getting more expensive month after month, it’s no surprise that businesses all over the world are looking for alternatives. From the acquisition of VMware and t...
