by Andrew Hunt | Jul 19, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
This is a big year for us. Kinetics turns 30, and OutSource (a year older, having started in 1995) has now passed the 30-year mark too. Thirty years is a long time in any industry. In technology it’s practically forever. When we started, Novell NetWare ran the...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 17, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Lately I’ve noticed something in the conversations we have with clients. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a manufacturer, a professional services firm or a not-for-profit, in Auckland or Christchurch. The same three questions keep coming up....
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 15, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Webinar Recording
Microsoft 365 Business Premium is one of the most powerful tools a business can have, and one of the most underused. Most businesses use less than 20% of what’s in it. For a lot of Kiwi businesses it’s email, Word and the odd Teams call. But there’s...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 13, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
If you’re like most business leaders I talk to, you’re experimenting with AI and thinking of it as something to tackle properly later. The reality is your staff are almost certainly using it already. They’re drafting emails, summarising documents,...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 2, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
A plain-English guide for New Zealand businesses, current as of July 2026. AI isn’t a single product any more, it’s a marketplace. These days the useful question isn’t “should we use AI?” but “which AI, for which job?” OpenAI,...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 1, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
It’s the question I hear more than any other from small and medium business owners: “Why would anyone bother with us? We’re not a bank. We haven’t got millions sitting in the account. Surely we’re not worth the effort.”...
