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🎄✨ Happy holidays and best wishes for 2025 from the Parallo team! ✨🎄This year has been all about listening, adapting, and delivering. From helping SaaS and ISVs thrive, to guiding enterprises and corporates on their cloud modernisation journeys - we’ve been proud to deliver real value where it matters most. We’ve worked closely with our customers and partners, ensuring we’re not only listening but taking action to evolve our services and meet the market's changing needs. Cameron Rangeley, Parallo GM, sums it up best: "2024 has been about staying close to our customers, understanding their challenges, and delivering services that make a real impact. None of this would have been possible without our incredible team helping our customers succeed, I am extremely thankful for our team and their dedication to this purpose. As we head into 2025, our focus remains the same: stay curious, listen to our customers, and continue to help them deliver innovation to win new customers, grow their businesses, and disrupt their markets" Here's to continuing the teamwork and momentum in 2025!🥂 #SeasonsGreetings #2024WrapUp #Innovation #SaaSGrowth #CloudModernisation Crayon Crayon Channel APAC (formerly rhipe)

🌟 With the end-of-year rush underway, ensuring your applications and infrastructure can handle the surge in demand is more important than ever. 🚀 Our Technical Success Manager, Matt Allford, shares some practical advice on preparing your systems to meet increased traffic while also managing costs. Here's his take: 👇 🛠️ Typically around this time of the year, I get questions from customers regarding the scalability of their applications, ensuring the infrastructure and application architecture can handle increased load brought by extra traffic and large sales. ⚙️ While many cloud services have the capability to automatically scale under certain conditions, not all services do, and you need a great understanding of your application and infrastructure to understand what needs to scale, when, and by how much, while also managing cost. It's also helpful to know what the bottlenecks in your application are and consider if a change in architecture might help alleviate those bottlenecks, such as using a caching service for a database. 💡 We've worked with customers to use Azure's Load Testing service, which can simulate traffic for your applications. Azure Load Test supports both Apache JMeter and Locust, giving flexible options for writing tests that simulate real user behaviour. Your application doesn't need to be hosted in Azure to use Azure Load Test, but if it is, you can leverage Azure Monitor while running a load test to correlate client-side issues or performance problems with your back-end infrastructure, helping quickly pinpoint where issues are. 📈 This is more than just technical knowledge too. Other teams within our customer base like marketing, customer success, and sales all rest easier knowing the technology will support an increase in traffic, and the user experience will remain great. 📣 One last comment: don't make load testing a one-off event! Load testing can be integrated into CI/CD workflows, helping ensure as you change your infrastructure and code base over time, that you don't introduce unexpected performance or scalability issues. Thanks, Matt, for sharing your insights! If you’d like to dive deeper into optimising your application performance (on Azure or AWS) or explore load testing solutions, feel free to reach out - we’re here to help! 🤝 Cameron Rangeley Aubrey Donovan Crayon #scalability #appscalability #performance #applicationperformance

Last week we brought the team together from across New Zealand, Australia and Fiji to celebrate an incredible year of growth and delivering more value than ever to our customers! 🎉 🛠️🚀 We’ve launched new services designed to help SaaS and enterprise companies modernise their cloud infrastructure, from AI integrations and cost optimisations to cloud performance monitoring and architecture deep dives. We're listening to our customers and focused on finding smarter, more innovative ways to improve operations and find solutions that make an impact. 🤝 As part of the Crayon group, we have continued to build and deepen our connections withing the wider organisation. These relationships allow us to tap into global expertise to bring even more value to our ANZ based customers. We’ve also continued to build strong partnerships with AWS and Microsoft, working together, we’re helping our customers get the most value out of their cloud services. ☁️ Of course, none of this would have been possible without the talented people in our team. 📣 A special shout out to this year’s annual award winners for their contributions! 🥂 🌟 Beau Parbhu 🌟 Josh Hand 🌟 Matt McGrath 🌟 Paul Ryan 🌟 David Vivash 🌟 Jenna Anderson 🌟 Kunjan Vaishnav Here’s to a fantastic 2024! Katerina Thomas Cameron Rangeley Aubrey Donovan James Brookbanks Jonathan Mann

#AotearoaAzure Meetup this Thursday at the Auckland Microsoft office! 📅 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/g6V5ctAP

SMX's integration into the Microsoft hyperscale cloud region marks a huge leap for secure, scalable email solutions. With over 500,000 mailboxes moving to Azure, this collaboration showcases the strength of local partnerships driving cutting-edge results. 💡 We're proud to work alongside SMX and Microsoft to support these exciting milestones! Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to empower businesses with cloud solutions that make a difference. 🚀 https://hubs.li/Q02Z7RwZ0 #CloudInnovation #Partnerships #Azure #EmailSecurity

💡 Lunch and Learn Recap 💡 One of our talented Solution Architects, Jay Strydom, hosted a fantastic session focused on Azure cost-saving strategies - why they're critical, how to communicate them effectively to customers, and the importance of staying curious to uncover opportunities. 👏 Huge thanks to Jay for leading this session and to the team for getting involved! #AzureCostSavings #CustomerFocus #Teamwork

💡 Join us in Auckland for an Observability workshop with the team at AWS! True observability optimisation goes beyond tools, it plays a critical role in your organisation and for your end users. Are you ready to move beyond traditional monitoring and implement advanced strategies to transform your end-user experience.? 🧠💡 📅 When: Tuesday, November 26 | 7:45–9:30 AM 📍 Where: AWS Auckland, Commercial Bay Level 13 Why Attend? ✅ Go beyond the tooling to understand why observability matters and how to implement effective strategies in your organisation. ✅ Discover strategies to improve application performance and user experience. ✅ Learn the difference between traditional monitoring and modern observability. ✅ Networking opportunities. Agenda: 🔘 7:45 AM: Networking and breakfast 🔘 8:15 AM: Welcome from AWS 🎤 Presenter: Jyothi Madanlal, AWS Solution Architect 🔘 8:20 AM: Traditional vs Modern Observability Strategies: What doesn’t cut it anymore and where your focus should be in 2025. 🎤 Presenter: Amr Zaki, Senior Cloud Solution Architect and Parallo Cloud Services Lead 🔘 8:50 AM: The Journey to Excellent User Experience: How to improve your organisation’s end-user experience beyond the tooling. 🔘 9:10 AM: Q&A and open floor for discussion Seats are limited - secure your spot today! 👉 Register now: https://hubs.li/Q02Yttx30

💡 Join us in Auckland for an Observability workshop with the team at AWS! True observability optimisation goes beyond tools, it plays a critical role in your organisation and for your end users. Are you ready to move beyond traditional monitoring and implement advanced strategies to transform your end-user experience.? 🧠💡 📅 When: Tuesday, November 26 | 7:45–9:30 AM 📍 Where: AWS Auckland, Commercial Bay Level 13 Why Attend? ✅ Go beyond the tooling to understand why observability matters and how to implement effective strategies in your organisation. ✅ Discover strategies to improve application performance and user experience. ✅ Learn the difference between traditional monitoring and modern observability. ✅ Networking opportunities. Agenda: 🔘 7:45 AM: Networking and breakfast 🔘 8:15 AM: Welcome from AWS 🎤 Presenter: Jyothi Madanlal, AWS Solution Architect 🔘 8:20 AM: Traditional vs Modern Observability Strategies: What doesn’t cut it anymore and where your focus should be in 2025. 🎤 Presenter: Amr Zaki, Senior Cloud Solution Architect and Parallo Cloud Services Lead 🔘 8:50 AM: The Journey to Excellent User Experience: How to improve your organisation’s end-user experience beyond the tooling. 🔘 9:10 AM: Q&A and open floor for discussion Seats are limited - secure your spot today! 👉 Register now: https://hubs.li/Q02YtthY0

We're thrilled to welcome Kirsty Nelson to the Parallo team! Having honed her skills in the IT industry in Melbourne and brings with her a wealth of experience, having excelled in sales with both SaaS and Managed Security Service Providers. Now back in New Zealand, Kirsty is ready to dive into Parallo and Crayon’s world, supporting Kiwi businesses and making a real difference with her expertise. When she’s not at work, you’ll find her planning her next adventure – fueled by her passion for travel, languages, and culture. Welcome, Kirsty! We excited to have you on the team! https://hubs.li/Q02Y8TSN0 Aubrey Donovan

A fantastic achievement, congratulations to everyone involved, it is incredible to once again be recognised! It really does take a village as it is no easy feat going through the rigous annual audit process, demonstrating Crayon’s continued capability and dedication to delivering world-class Azure solutions.