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15/07/2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot has crossed a line this year. It has moved from something teams were curious about to something they are actively rolling out.

Over the past month we have been helping customers move teams onto Copilot for Business licensing, now the more cost-effective option for Business Premium environments, and stand up Teams Rooms to match. The licensing and the value case are both in a much stronger place than they were six months ago, which changes the maths for organisations that had parked AI on the maybe-next-year list.

The part most vendors skip is that a useful Copilot rollout starts with tidy foundations: clean data, sensible access controls and a clear view of where it will actually save time. Get that right and the productivity gains become real rather than theoretical.

If AI in your day-to-day workflow has been on the list for a while, we are happy to walk you through what a Copilot rollout looks like for a team your size.

👉 Book a Copilot session: https://loom.ly/7hxpWdQ

09/07/2026

New Zealand's threat landscape took a sharp turn this quarter.

The latest figures from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) show $5.6 million in direct financial loss in Q1 2026 - a 76% jump on the previous quarter, with individual New Zealanders accounting for $5.2 million of it.

Phishing and credential harvesting was the most-reported incident type, with 437 cases. The lesson isn't complicated, and that's the point: the basics still do the heavy lifting. If you haven't reviewed these lately, now's the time:

👉🏼 Multi-factor authentication on every account that matters
👉🏼 Access control and least-privilege reviews
👉🏼 Security awareness for your people (your strongest and weakest link)
👉🏼 Ongoing review of your exposed risk

Whether you're already running in Azure or looking to strengthen your security posture, talk to us about assessing your environment and identify practical opportunities to reduce risk and improve resilience.

Talk to us about a security health check here: https://loom.ly/7hxpWdQ

07/07/2026

A quick look at where the Umbrellar team out and about in the last month - because the relationships behind the work matter as much as the work itself (not to mention, having as good dose of fun!)

Luke Golds and Ian Hassell flew the flag for Umbrellar at Pax8 Beyond in Salt Lake City, the channel's flagship global event, and came home with the latest thinking on Microsoft, AI, security and where the managed services ecosystem is heading. Expect some of those ideas to show up in how we support you over the rest of the year.

Closer to home, Shavvah joined the Pax8 team at the Reseller News NZ Women in ICT Awards on 17 June at Cordis in Auckland, cheering on Pax8's finalist Sasha Vovechenko in the Technical, Vendor and Distributor category. It was a great afternoon celebrating the women driving our industry forward.

Staying close to the events shaping cloud and AI is how we keep bringing the best of the market back to our customers.

11/06/2026

When your core systems run a New York private equity firm, "good enough" was never on the table.

GenNx360 came to us with ageing on-premises servers, operating systems at or past end-of-support, and hardware warranties already lapsed. In a regulated, security-sensitive environment, a single outage would have been a material business event.

Alongside Mobile Mentor, we led the end-to-end migration into Azure, starting with risk-led discovery and careful sequencing to protect the live production environment the whole way through. The outcome was 100% of legacy infrastructure retired, a secure and recoverable Azure foundation, and a clear runway for the modernisation work that comes next.

This is what cloud success looks like for an institutional firm: certainty, not novelty.

Read the full case study here 👉 https://loom.ly/mMUybGE

10/06/2026

Umbrellar Technology Group has earned the 2026 Pax8 Beyond Partner Award in the MVP Infrastructure APAC category, marking the second consecutive year we have received this recognition 🏆

The awards program recognises partners who drove significant revenue growth, cloud adoption and the success of companies worldwide by leveraging their relationship with Pax8 and its innovative Marketplace.

"Winning this award two years running reflects the trust our customers place in us and the calibre of our team here in New Zealand. When we brought Umbrellar back into local ownership, we committed to world-class cloud infrastructure with a local-first mindset. This recognition from Pax8 validates that - and it's our people who make it possible. We're proud to represent Aotearoa on the global stage." - Ian Hassell, Chief Executive Officer, Umbrellar Technology Group

01/06/2026

Our newest team member needs almost no introduction! If you've worked anywhere near the Microsoft ecosystem in New Zealand, you'll already know Paul Quirk.

Today we're very pleased to share that Paul has joined Umbrellar as a Business Development Manager, Azure.

Paul joined Microsoft back in 2008, and spent the last nine years deep in the Azure platform working with everyone from modest local businesses through to the country's largest enterprises. He has a real gift for taking complex Azure concepts and translating them into business-focused ideas that the whole room can understand.

What drew him to Umbrellar was our engineering capability and our long-standing focus on customer relationships. In his words, "they're very customer first, business outcome focused." That's a description we'll happily wear.

Paul is a self-described "boxes and lines" guy who loves the architectural side of things and gets a lot of fulfilment from helping people solve hard problems. He's exactly the kind of senior Azure brain we want in front of our customers.

Welcome to the team, Quirky. We're stoked to have you!

25/05/2026

All at once, or piece by piece? It's one of the first questions any cloud migration project has to answer, and the right call depends entirely on your context.

A big bang migration moves all systems at once. It's faster, gets you to the end state sooner, and works well for smaller organisations or tightly coupled environments where separating workloads would introduce more risk than moving them together. The trade-off is that it concentrates risk into a single window where a problem in one area can affect the whole business at the same time.

A phased migration moves workloads in waves, typically organised by department, region, or application group. The pace is slower and the risk is distributed, and each wave produces lessons you can apply to the next. For larger organisations or complex environments with mission-critical workloads, phased is usually the smarter call.

Either way, the sequencing matters, and it starts with dependency mapping. Understanding how your systems connect to each other is what determines whether workloads can be separated into waves or need to move together.
From there, workloads should be prioritised in a deliberate order:

- Start with lower-risk, less complex workloads - things your business can tolerate a hiccup on - to prove the migration process and refine your approach before the stakes get higher.
- Then move to high-value, lower-risk applications that deliver visible ROI and validate the approach with meaningful business outcomes.
- Then tackle the complex, mission-critical systems with a proven playbook, refined processes, and lessons from earlier waves.

Throughout, compliance requirements may force specific systems to wait until certain controls are in place, and every wave needs a tested rollback plan before cutover.

The full guide walks through how we sequence migrations for our customers. Read our Cloud Migration Playbook here: https://loom.ly/zx7_vaI

13/05/2026

For an institutional private equity firm, cloud migration comes down to one thing: certainty.

Here's how Umbrellar partnered with Mobile Mentor to modernise GenNx360's core systems in Azure, retiring 100% of legacy infrastructure and delivering a foundation built for confidence.

For institutional firms, cloud success looks like certainty. Read the full case study here 👉 https://loom.ly/mMUybGE

12/05/2026

Cloud modernisation isn't optional anymore - it's URGENT.

Our Umbrellar Professional Services help you:
→ Move with a plan (not guesswork)
→ Modernise, not just migrate
→ Build for what’s next, not just what’s now

If you want less risk, better performance and faster outcomes, talk to us.

Get a Cloud Readiness Assessment now 👉 https://loom.ly/yIXTCPY

29/04/2026

Most cloud providers are brilliant at delivering the project. Then they go quiet.

We think cloud partnership should feel closer to a long relationship than a transaction. You know your account lead. Your engineers know your environment. Someone's actively looking at your setup, flagging risks before they bite, and checking in when your priorities shift.

If your current provider disappears between tickets, we'd love to show you how it should feel. Request a proactive support review: umbrellar.co.nz/experience-partnership

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