What a day.

Today the nation's largest retail carrier is making headlines for all - the wrong - reasons.

If you're not interested in clicking through the linked articles above let me summarise things:

• In the early hours of this morning Telstra suffered a nationwide network outage
• B...

I feel it was only yesterday that I sat down with a coffee and a laptop and decided to talk about backup Internet in a business context. Turns out it was the 26th of December - Yep Boxing Day - because when you're running a small business there's never really a time to stop. If you're dependent...

This story takes us back to a real world scenario. A client of ours who we have featured before has finally accepted that sync is not backup.

Way back at the start of my IT career, before I even knew that corporate cybersecurity was a thing I had the responsibility of building a small business'...

This can't be real. This can't be real. That was my first thought when I woke up this morning and popped open the news with my morning coffee. Surely our last blog post cooked my brain and this is just a movie... but there it was; thick, black smoke billowing from the Viva Energy refinery in Geelo...

I wasn't planning to come back to this topic so soon, but I guess lots of unexpected things are happening in the world today.

I want to start this topic by acknowledging our previous post on AI as a research tool. I'm acknowledging it because I'm also sharing this document generated by AI. It'...

I feel like I’ve seen this movie somewhere before.

Just a few years ago, the idea of an entire workforce upending their commute and setting up at the kitchen table seemed like the plot of a sci-fi thriller (thriller? fizzer?). Then, almost overnight, it became our reality. We learned to navigate Z...

On more than one occasion we've spoken about redundant internet. Why you may not want to put all your eggs in one basket. Here and here to be precise.

Often this all boils down to one very practical question: "If my internet goes down right now, how much money am I losing?" Whether you’re ru...

As I write this, I’m sitting in beautiful Bright, Victoria. The Christmas rush is just around the corner, but right now, the weather is absolutely perfect. The Ovens River is flowing clear, the trees are green, and the coffee is hot. It is the ideal setting for a bit of remote work before the holida...

I feel like we only just finished our five part in-depth series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) on Australia's shift to hybrid work and suddenly the ground is shifting under our feet. Again.

In today's digitally connected world, a reliable internet connection isn't just a convenience – it's the lifeblood of businesses everywhere from a small local shop to the nation's largest multi nationals. Everything from processing payments and communicating with customers to accessing crucial cloud...