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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...
23 June 2026
From the moment we decided to provide mission-critical hosting services, one truth was unavoidable: there is no such thing as mission-critical hosting without a way to stop cyber attacks. A perfect data centre with an undefended network is a fortress wi...
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?<...
