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Cover story Compliance & Security
Australian IT blogs are warning that the small business exemption ends in December. That is not what the law says. Here is what is actually legislated, and what is still only a draft.
Read the cover storyEach topic has its own page, newest first.
Essential Eight, the Privacy Act, data sovereignty, and what Australian businesses are actually required to do.
Migrations, cost control, and architecture decisions that hold up under load.
BGP, SD-WAN, resilience, and the connectivity decisions that decide whether you stay online.
Monitoring, automation, and running systems that do not wake you at 3am.
Everything else, newest first.
Changing email providers is mostly preparation. What to list before you start, when to touch DNS, how to copy mail before and after the switch, and the settings that keep your mail out of spam folders.
Read article →The ASD Essential Eight was written for government departments. Here is how to reach a defensible Maturity Level One without a dedicated security team or an enterprise budget.
Read article →Most businesses that think they have redundant internet have two services riding the same fibre, in the same pit, to the same exchange. Here is how to tell, and what real multihoming costs.
Read article →The licensing is the cheap part. After a decade of running clusters for Australian businesses, these are the costs that actually decide whether a migration pays for itself.
Read article →Alert fatigue is not a discipline problem, it is a design problem. How to get from a thousand noisy checks to a handful of alerts that always mean something.
Read article →We have used Next Generation Networks for several custom solution projects that went well beyond the standard scope listed on their website. Every time, the team has been exceptional—genuinely enthusiastic about tackling complex challenges and consistently delivering solutions that exceed…
James Johnson
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Great internet and phone service, excellent customer service.
Fiori Mercuri
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Impeccable support and service! Would highly recommend.
Samuel Tolentino
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Great service from Next Generation! They really helped us get our internet running fast and smoothly. The process was easy, and their team was very helpful and responsive. We’re really happy with the improved internet speed and connection. Highly recommended!
Mariwel Largosa
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We engaged Next Generation Networks to build the ecommerce site for South West Apparel, and we couldn't be happier with the result. The team's attention to detail was outstanding. Everything from the layout and product pages to the checkout experience was carefully thought through, and they took…
Houssam Homsi
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