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At Blackbird IT, we’re taking it upon ourselves to educate South Australian businesses on the pitfalls and common misconceptions around cyber security. Together with the South Australian [...]

Andrew Ridley, Professional Services Team Leader Andrew joined the team in 2011 as a systems engineer with a hunger to feed his craft and increase his exposure in the industry. Over the years he [...]

After hearing of the successful collaboration at Unley Primary, Brighton Primary School approached Blackbird IT to determine why, despite there being a new high speed fibre connection, their [...]

Making your events, presentations, lectures and workshops innovative and memorable! Here at Blackbird IT we are all about engaging with and energising people, and not just our customers either! [...]

Are you a scheduling guru with a strong background in IT or know someone who is? We’re on the hunt for a Service Coordinator to join our growing team. Apply now and become an integral part [...]

Exciting times here at Blackbird HQ with a number of promotions and role changes happening this month! Congratulations to Brendan Rose who now wears the hat of General Manager, Andrew Ridley who [...]

The team have been busy running and attending a number of great events throughout August! Yesterday, together with Adrian Francis of Using Technology Better, we were pleased to host over 30 [...]

Presented by Blackbird IT & Using Technology Better Target Audience: Teachers and those looking for Professional Development opportunities. Apple Learning Specialist, Adrian Francis, will [...]

Presented by Apple Target Audience: Those involved in deployment in schools. Using Apple products in the classroom creates unique opportunities for personal learning at every level. Lessons [...]

Having been in operation for 39 years now, Allingtons have grown from a chaff-cutting operation in the late 70’s to one of the largest country clothing retail outlets in Australia with a [...]

Business Intelligence for IT Service Providers! Data is king! Unless of course you can’t see it… Luckily for us Brightguage brings all of our valuable data into one intuitive [...]

Brendan Rose, General Manager Joining the team in 2011, Brendan is no stranger to most of our customers! When Brendan joined the team he brought with him 7 years of practical experience working [...]

Congratulations to Luke and Ruth Jaksa who welcomed their latest addition to the Jaksa clan this month, baby Noah.  Big brother Samuel is over the moon at having a new baby brother and the [...]

Do you backup your mission critical data to tape, optical disc or physical hard drive? Did you know that cloud based data backup is a safer and often more affordable solution? Back by popular [...]

Following our recent ‘Thinking NBN? Think Again’ article, we’ve been getting some great questions around what other Internet options are available for businesses.  We thought [...]

The latest Blackbird IT Education Price List is now available for download! We are proud to partner with Apple and HP to provide you with the best equipment, advice and support to suit your [...]

Goolwa Primary School is a medium sized Primary School situated in the historic river port town of Goolwa on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. The school has a strong focus on the integration of [...]

Protect your Home PC from ‘Petya’  With the recent focus on the ‘Petya’ Ransomware, we recommend  home PC users try Sophos Home Premium Beta to best stay protected. Right [...]

As you may have heard in the news or seen in our most recent mailout, a new Ransomware called ‘Petya’ similar to the recent ‘WannaCry’ virus has been wreaking havoc across [...]

If the recent ‘Wannacry’ Ransomware didn’t get you thinking about your cyber security, ‘Petya’ will! WHAT IS PETYA? Overnight, reports have emerged of a new cyber [...]

There has been much debate around NBN and with many Australian businesses currently being offered connections to the NBN,  many are wondering if it’s right for their organisation. With the influx [...]

Adelaide Belt & Hose (ABH) was founded over 25 years ago and has been providing high quality products and services to a multitude of industries ever since!  We’ve been in partnership [...]

Protect Your Home Computers with Sophos Home! It’s no secret that we, and many of our customers, are huge fans of Sophos when it comes to cyber security in business. Did you know Sophos [...]

Kate Stefanoff, Financial Controller Kate was number 3 on board at Blackbird IT. Armed with 10 years of experience working in public practice and 7 years working in finance in the advertising [...]

Congratulations to Cameron Senter and wife Helen who welcomed their beautiful baby boy Magnus into the world in the early hours of April 26, 2017. Here’s a picture of the little cherub that [...]

Director Richard Stafford and Jason Pine of the Pro Services team recently returned from a whirlwind trip to the US where they attended the 2017 VeeamON conference in New Orleans. The boys not [...]

For many small and medium-sized businesses (SMB’s), backing up data to the Cloud has been easier said than done with limited bandwidth, exploding data volumes and a lack of resources [...]

Did you know that cloud based backup is a safer and often more affordable option? TRADITIONAL BACKUP Data backup is the act of copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore [...]

Businesses of every size are becoming bigger targets of hackers worldwide. With zero-day and cryptolocker style attacks becoming more intelligent, it is imperative your organisation is adequately [...]