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• Vodafone NZ provides support for Philippines

  Sends engineers to set up an emergency mobile phone network and provides retrospective credit for calls made to the country during the supertyphoon period.

• In pictures: CIO roundtable - Business continuity in a shifting technology landscape

  At a recent roundtable discussion sponsored by Veeam, CIOs talk about how ICT works across the organisation and with partner agencies to meet the growing demands and expectations of a 24x7, always changing, business environment.

• Startups tackle ‘X’ factor challenge

  Getting in is easy, but global success is a massive challenge. Three Kiwi companies share how they grew in this type of environment.
  

• The day after the earthquake

  It was a Sunday afternoon but Channa Jayasinha was in the Wellington City Council (WCC) complex when the earthquake struck.

• Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced datacentres not a perfect solution

  A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced datacentres instead of hot-cold datacentres. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their datacenters to take care of disaster needs. If one datacenter suffered from a disaster, the other datacenter would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.

• 9/11 continues to influence IT strategy

  In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Dave Rudzinsky's first thoughts and concerns were for the people affected by the tragedies. As someone who plays a critical role in his own employer's disaster readiness, he also found himself trying to comprehend the corporate devastation.

• The trouble with supply-chain best practices

  Best Practices: It's an often overused term that can apply to literally any decision-making process: parenting quandaries, personal finance questions, buying a house, getting a job, or selecting a puppy breed.

• Business continuity plans still need work

  Most business report they have been negatively impacted by network disruptions in the last year, according to a new poll that attempts to gauge how organisations react to disruptions and the measures they are taking to improve their business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
  The poll, conducted by technology products provider CDW LLC, surveyed 200 information technology decision makers at medium and large US businesses, each of which experienced significant network disruptions since July 2009. While 82 percent felt confident that their IT resources could sustain disruptions and support operations effectively, 97 percent admitted network disruptions had detrimental effects on their businesses in the last year.

• SMBs unprepared for disasters, Symantec finds

  Small and midsize businesses are confident in their disaster recovery capabilities, but their actual performance preventing outages shows they are "remarkably unprepared," according to survey results released Monday by Symantec.

• Protection that matters

  For Dunedin Casino, moving to 24-hour trading made it rethink the company’s IT systems from scratch. While at Mainfreight, with its near 24-hour operation, there was little time for backup, so critical systems had to run continuously. At Onslow College, the focus was on keeping a platform that has proven its reliability.
  Though these enterprises belong to disparate industries, their ICT leaders share a common concern: Ensuring systems remain available regardless of untoward events and circumstance.

• Westpac outlines post-merger IT savings strategy

  Westpac Banking Corporation has revealed a number of early targets for information and communications technology cost savings from its proposed $18.6 billion acquisition of St George Bank.
  Westpac also said it would aim to pump up investment in computer systems following the merger, which would lead to the introduction of common IT across the combined business.

• How to improve disaster recovery plans

  Hancock Bank, a century-old institution headquartered on Mississippi's hurricane-prone Gulf Coast, likes to boast that it will be the last to close and the first to open when stormy weather shuts down area businesses. That claim got the severest test imaginable when Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in 2005. "We were hurt badly," says Ron Milliet, the bank's director of IT services.

• Adventures in managing virtualisation

  Evan Jafa, CIO of First American, says getting your virtualised servers set up and running right really is just the start of any IT leader's virtualisation work. And that if you don't think holistically about virtualisation, you're in for a rude surprise.