iTWire – 03 February 2012 Leading Australian managed services and cloud computing provider, Brennan IT, is bringing Microsoft Hyper-V to its cloud platform following the recent $1.5 million upgrade of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform as it gears up to meet what it says is rising demand for its cloud services. With cloud revenues expected to More…

Rounding out its portfolio of cloud offerings, leading cloud computing provider Brennan IT (www.brennanit.com.au) today announced that it will bring Microsoft Hyper-V to its cloud platform. The move follows the company’s recent $1.5M upgrade of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform as it gears up to meet rising demand for its cloud services. Brennan IT sees Microsoft Hyper-V More…

  Latest news and views from Brennan IT Stephen Sims General Manager Sales and Marketing This month: 2012 – what IT will bring 5 ways Unified Communication will make you more productive Disaster Recovery services move to the Cloud Latest news and views Case study January 2012 We hope you had a great Christmas and More…

The fundamental aims of IT Managers and CIOs won’t change in the new year, and we expect improvements to business efficiency, increased productivity and reduced costs to remain priorities. What may change, however, are the technologies that businesses turn to to achieve these goals. In 2012, there’s no single, looming innovation that stands ready to More…

Something we can probably look forward to in 2012 is less hype around the cloud. That’s because the cloud has now become one of the mainstays of business computing, more an expectation than a novelty. If businesses aren’t already using it, then chances are it will be an integral part of their next technology upgrade More…

We’re back on deck Our festive season provisioning embargo is over, and all of provisioning activities have returned to normal. 2011 was a busy and productive year for Brennan IT and our customers and we’re looking forward to the same in 2012. If you’ve got plans for the new year, why not contact us to More…

One of the challenges when a business becomes successful is growing it in different markets. Establishing physical offices in different states and cities means that business processes, business information and (more intangibly) a business’s culture, now have to operate across geographic boundaries. What tools and strategies can help a multi-office business to stay on the More…

Once the preserve of big business, Unified Communication is a productivity tool that mid-sized businesses are now adopting. That’s because Unified Communication (UC for short) offers huge scope for immediate productivity increases. Here are five ways UC can improve productivity in your business: 1. By eliminating ‘phone tag’. Through real-time presence reporting, UC lets you More…

The Australian – 24 January 2012 When wealth management business Modoras wanted to expand, it needed a flexible IT infrastructure with national reach and scalability. The privately owned company, based in Brisbane, decided to outsource its infrastructure. “We were experiencing rapid growth and we were looking at opening up interstate offices as well,” Modoras associate More…

One of the long-time problems with disaster recovery solutions has been testing them. Many businesses have simply had to rely on assumptions that their regimes will work in the event of a disaster. With the advent of new cloud technologies, however, this situation has changed. Indeed, one of the most valuable features of emerging cloud-based More…

ARN – 09 January 2012 An ARN special report on what industry experts tip to happen this year. 2011 was an eventful year in IT with numerous technology highlights. 2012 should be just as interesting. 2011 was challenging. It’s that simple, according to IDC A/NZ market analyst, Amy Cheah. This was despite major industry-wide stand-outs such More…

The Age – 04 January 2012 January is a time to take stock of IT. From planning to patching, there’s a lot you can do over the quieter summer months. Here a few ideas to think about. Do you know what’s in your applications portfolio? asks Gartner VP Scott Nelson. “Probably not as well as More…

Switzer – 04 January 2012 When your company is one of only two companies to make BRW’s Fast 100list for seven years on a trot, it certainly suggests the driver of Brennan IT knows something or two about the fast lane of business growth and how to stay there. Dave Stevens is the founder and More…

Hard to believe, but Twitter is now five years old. With more than 300 million users, it’s the fastest growing medium in history. For SMEs, the opportunities that it and other social media networks present are enormous. But there’s plenty of scope for problems too. Part of the trouble is that you might have hundreds More…

Question: Is a product the same product by any other price? If you believe most pricing theories, the answer is no. Exactly how much a product costs affects our perceptions about its qualities and value – perceptions that aren’t necessarily rational. Wine is an obvious example, with many commentators pointing out that the uneducated amongst More…

The “C” doesn’t always get the emphasis that the “I” does, but it’s always worth pausing to examine the “C” in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). How a business communicates is a fundamental part of its DNA. It dictates the style and speed in which things are done, and it affects how effectively the business More…

Latest news and views from Brennan IT Stephen Sims General Manager Sales and Marketing This month: Making your business more productive 5 ways to improve your Outlook usage Do more with Microsoft Hosted Exchange Important Holiday Provisioning Embargo Details Holiday Season Products and Promotions Yet another track cycling world record Disaster Recovery to the Cloud More…

The festive season is just around the corner, so it is important to let you know that there will be changes in our provisioning and change request processes which can have implications on your business. The Brennan IT provisioning embargo will commence from; 18th December 2011 through to 8th January 2012 (inclusive). During this time there will be a More…

Whether it’s through more effective processes or better use of labour, improving productivity is an ongoing concern of every successful businesses. Call it ‘doing more with less’, or ‘finding productivity dividends’ – what it boils down to is doing things better, faster and at lower cost. By nature, ICT solutions are some of the most More…

With the shift from internally to externally hosted Exchange services, the days of the humble Exchange server in the back office seem increasingly numbered. For most mid-market businesses, the advantages of hosting Exchange services with a specialist provider are compelling: Per-user pricing allows businesses to efficiently scale and spend only what they need to. Op-Ex More…