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CIOs of New Zealand’s biggest IT-using organisations demonstrate ways of responding quickly to new and often disruptive business technologies, while simultaneously preparing for their long-term impact.

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In a high pressure environment, when an hour of connectivity downtime for customers can lead to a $200,000 SLA fine, Brett Hobbs of BCS Group knew finding the vendor that could meet this criteria was essential.

More than 120 major systems covered in two years, says CEO Simon Moutter

Innovate and iterate like ‘startups’ to compete with organisations using technologies to disrupt mature industries, says Lenta

Jarred Clayton, engineering manager, explains why the road services and charging company uses as much cloud as possible.

With UFB, businesses are also future-proofing themselves for technologies we can’t even imagine yet but will come out over the next 20 years, says Telecom retail chief Chris Quin.

New technologies bring greater communications and collaboration among teams, along with a raft of new issues for CIOs and their executive colleagues. At a recent CIO roundtable held in association with Dimension Data, panellists shared insights on how to lead this changing environment.

The New Zealand managing director of the enterprise mobility specialist started working in mobile telecommunications 20 years ago, when ‘there was no data beyond text messaging’.

Getting the human component right is critical in the success of any business technology rollout.

Google will add prices for Ryanair to its flight search engine, the CEO of the discount airline said in an interview published Sunday.

‘The CIO can be an incredibly powerful position’ – the relentless pressures of the job are also opportunities to forge a great career and help the organisation outrank the competition.

Four New Zealand CIOs talk about key issues their teams are facing, and the new areas ICT is working on.

“We recognise our customers want access to information anywhere, any time, on their choice of device,” says CIO Julia Raue.

Symantec project aims to plug continuous skills gap in the area.

MetService has a dual persona – a state owned enterprise with full commercial operations worldwide. It is a unique setup that keeps CIO Alistair Vickers and his team on the leading edge of business technology.

Last year some 6000 attendees trekked out to Las Vegas for the first customer conference of what many consider to be the leading public IaaS Cloud provider: Amazon Web Services. AWS re:Invent 2012 saw the launch of a new data analytics and warehousing product, price drops on its services, and lots of tips and tricks for how to use Amazon's cloud.

It's summer across the U.S., and that means that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, powerful thunderstorms and other natural disasters can take out your company's IT systems in a flash.