DCI Data Centers begins construction on a second facility in Auckland

DCI Data Center is constructing two new generation cloud data centers in the Auckland region, the second of which is AKL02 – the one that DCI Data Centers claims to be Auckland’s largest data center. DCI Data Centers CEO Malcolm Roe, Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications Hon. Dr. David Clark, and DCI Data […]

EY Works with Microsoft for Cloud Resilient Cybersecurity Centres in New Zealand

EY has announced that it will be launching two cybersecurity centres in New Zealand, with one in Auckland, a second in Wellington, and a potential third located in Christchurch. These cybersecurity centre will offer 24-hour cybersecurity services, and are supported by Microsoft Azure Sentinel, a cloud native security information and event management (SIEM) software solution. […]

Zscaler Establishes New Data Infrastructure Co-located within Equinix Data Centres in Canberra and Auckland

Cloud security company Zscaler has expanded its data centre infrastructure capacity across two sites in Canberra and Auckland, co-located within Equinix data centres. Zscaler’s expansion into these new sites complements and builds on its existing data centre infrastructures in Sydney and Melbourne, which are also co-located within Equinix’s data centres. Steve Singer, Zscaler Australia’s regional […]

Cloud Middleware Use by Cloud Service Providers Poses Unseen Security Risk: Wiz Research

In June 2022, researchers from Wiz Research, Nir Ohfeld and Shir Tamari, explained their findings regarding cloud middleware vulnerabilities on cloud virtual machines, at RSA Conference 2022. Their work builds off a previous study conducted in 2021, which uncovered secretly installed vulnerabilities on cloud services, such as the Azure Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) agent and […]