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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
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
23 June 2026
There is one word in the hosting and IT industry that causes more confusion, and more disappointment, than almost any other: "managed". Nearly every provider claims their service "includes management". Very few are willing to tell yo...
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
Everyone is in love with large language models and generative AI right now, and rightly so. The technology is genuinely transforming how businesses write, code, support customers, analyse documents and make decisions. But underneath the excitement sits ...
