Disaster Recovery as a Service goes mainstream
Recent outages experienced by major organisations like Telstra and Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) have served as a fresh reminder of how heavily reliant businesses today are on the 24 x 7 x 365 availability of their technology platforms. Amidst speculation that these...
Microsoft wins data privacy appeal against USA
Electronic data hosted on overseas servers are off-limits for US government Microsoft has landed a significant win in its ongoing legal battle against the US government over the privacy of its customer data located in offshore datacentres. The US Court of Appeals...
2016 blueAPACHE Golf Championship Results
2016 blueAPACHE Golf Championship Every year in July, blueAPACHE celebrate the inception of the organisation with our annual Golf Championship in Kew, Victoria. What made this year truly special is that on 30 July 2016, blueAPACHE turned 18. Few businesses reach such...
blueAPACHE celebrates eighteen years
blueAPACHE turns eighteen! On 30 July 2016, blueAPACHE turned eighteen. Commencing in 1998 in a spare room in Glen Waverley, blueAPACHE has grown into one of Australia's true success stories. Very few businesses reach such a milestone, and even less do so in the best...
New ransomware doesn’t encrypt, it deletes
Not all hackers have an enormous pool of resources behind them. The original Cryptolocker generated $US27 million in two months according to a ZDNet study at the end of 2013, with the total earnings estimated to be ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars. So it shouldn't be...
What we learnt from attending Citrix Synergy 2016
Citrix Strategy revealed at Citrix Synergy 2016 Citrix Synergy is the premier industry conference on digital business transformation and brings the global Citrix community of customers, partners and industry influencers together for strategic insights and professional...
blueAPACHE formalises DXT IT transformation
PRESS RELEASE Sydney, 11 July 2016 – blueAPACHE, the leading Australian-based provider of managed cloud, network and IT as a Service solutions, today announced they have entered a formal engagement with Doble Express (DXT) to transform their entire on-premises IT...
Cerber ransomware targeted to Office 365 users
Hackers target Microsoft’s built-in security to distribute ransomware to Office 365 users Last week, a massive zero-day attack was launched against Microsoft Office 365 users with a cryptolocker virus called Cerber. According to industry estimates, over 57 percent of...
Another multi-million dollar SWIFT hack – Ukraine
At least $US10 million lost in Ukraine bank transfers Hot on the heels of the Bangladesh heist in February, a Ukrainian bank has become the latest victim of vulnerabilities in the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). SWIFT is the global...