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31 August 2026
Across almost every article we write, there's one word that keeps coming up, and that is "uptime'. Whether we're talking about our Tier IV data centre, high availability (HA) architecture, redundant networking, or the Service Leve...
31 August 2026
For most small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) today, Microsoft 365 (and its close cousin, Google Workspace) has quietly become the place where large parts of their business lives. Email, documents, spreadsheets, shared drives, Teams chats, SharePoint...
27 July 2026
For the better part of a decade, the Essential Eight has been the closest thing Australia has had to a cybersecurity baseline that everyone recognised. First published by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) back in 2017 – evolving from ...
03 July 2026
Most cloud spending is not exotic. It is ordinary general-purpose compute: the virtual machines that run websites, databases, applications and back-office systems. This is also where Australian businesses quietly overpay the global hyperscalers the most...
30 June 2026
When it comes to keeping the bad guys out of your systems, the tools we rely on have had to change considerably over the years. For a long time, the job of protecting an endpoint - which is any device that connects to and exchanges information over a ne...
30 June 2026
The way that organisations work has changed dramatically over the past few years. Where once the norm was for everyone to work out of a single office, more and more businesses now find themselves needing to operate across multiple premises. ...
29 June 2026
Micron21 has always believed in certifications. Anyone can claim their infrastructure is secure; the question is whether you are willing to put that claim in front of an independent expert and have it tested, control by control, against the toughest sta...
29 June 2026
In my last two articles I covered what makes a Tier IV data centre fault tolerant and what it takes to complete an IRAP assessment in Australia. Both come down to the same idea: claims are cheap, and proof matters. This third piece tackles the topic tha...
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...
