About
John Zammit is the Managing Director of Communicat IT, leading the Melbourne-based managed services provider through its rebuild and modernisation since October 2024. He has spent his career at the intersection of IT operations, ERP implementation, and business systems integration — a vantage point that informs much of Communicat's strategic advisory work.
John works directly with the leadership teams of Victorian SMBs across manufacturing, healthcare, legal, and food & beverage, focusing on the structural decisions that determine whether IT becomes a competitive advantage or a recurring cost centre. He is a regular contributor to the Communicat Insights publication, writing on cybersecurity, Essential Eight compliance, and the changing economics of cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
Expertise
Recent articles by John Zammit
12 May 2026 · 5 min read
The Server 2025 trap hardware warranty doesn't solve
Hardware warranty keeps the box running. It doesn't keep Windows Server 2016 or 2019 supported. For Victorian SMBs, that gap is now the refresh deadline.
11 May 2026 · 6 min read
Dell's smallest rack server now lists at $36,781. The reason isn't Dell.
Dell's entry-level rack server now lists at $36,781 because DRAM fabs pivoted to AI memory. The 30-year SMB refresh assumption has quietly broken.
4 May 2026 · 6 min read
Shadow AI in Microsoft 365: vendor reports won't show you what's there
Microsoft's AI dashboards miss most shadow AI in your tenant. Here's where to actually find OAuth grants, Power Automate flows, and Graph webhooks.
30 April 2026 · 6 min read
AI in the wrong hands wiped a production database in nine seconds
An AI agent wiped a startup's production database in nine seconds. AI is a power tool: productive in trained hands, catastrophic in untrained ones.
29 April 2026 · 5 min read
Every business has an AI strategy. Almost none have an AI inventory.
Most Australian SMBs already have dozens of AI agents running. The risk isn't whether to govern them. It's that you can't govern what you can't see.
18 April 2026 · 10 min read
Claude Mythos Just Found Thousands of Hidden Security Flaws — Here's Why That Matters for Your Business
Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser — including one hiding for 27 years. What this means for Australian businesses.
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