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• Fonterra appoints new CIO

  Gerben Otter, who came from the Dutch dairy co-operative Royal FrieslandCampina, will join Fonterra next week.

• ​16 airlines take off with Unisys solutions in multi-million dollar NZ deal

  16 international airlines operating to and from New Zealand sign four-year agreement with Unisys.

• NZ Fire Service taps Unisys to host its automatic fire alarm messaging system

  “Moving to a hosted-IaaS model allows us to focus our people and resources on being first responders to emergencies, rather than managing the overhead of the infrastructure core of the national automatic fire alarm system,” says Stuart Waring, information and communications technology manager – data and intelligence, NZFS.

• Kiwis believe telcos, government and banks more likely to suffer a data breach

  But majority says a data breach is not likely at an airline, healthcare provider or utility firm, reports Unisys
  

• Kiwis comfortable with mining social media to identify terrorist activity, but not for marketing: Unisys

  “Organisations must not abuse their relationship with their customers and citizens in the way that they collect, analyse and use publicly available data,” says Steve Griffin, Unisys NZ country manager.

• The CIO’s bi-modal innovation agenda

  “As you go through the innovation continuum, you need to be able to operate on the right hand side, on the quick fail safe, without impacting mission critical systems on the left,” says Steve Griffin of Unisys.
  

• In pictures: CIO100 event in Wellington: Frontline leadership

  The CIO100 event, which presents the results of the annual research on the top ICT using organisations in New Zealand, was held for the first time this year in Wellington. Victor Vae'au of the NZ Defence Force delivered the CIO keynote presentation. Photos by James Henderson.

• In pictures: CIO100 event in Auckland: Preparing for the digital future

  The speakers in this year’s CIO100 event - Carl Powell of Fletcher Building, Denildo Albuquerque and David Spaziani of Gartner, John-Paul Sikking of Cisco and Steve Griffin of Unisys – share pointers on taking the lead amidst fast-paced changes. Photos by Jason Creaghan

• ‘The CIO holds the most strategic role in the enterprise today, with the exception of the CEO’

  The keynote speakers in this year’s CIO100 event - Carl Powell of Fletcher Building and Victor Vae’au of the New Zealand Defence Force - talk about CIOs taking the lead amidst fast-paced changes.
  

• CIO100 2015: Who are the biggest ICT users in New Zealand?

  The annual report on the top ICT using organisations in New Zealand will be presented at breakfast forums on March 24 (Auckland) and on March 25 (Wellington). CIO speakers include Carl Powell of Fletcher Building and Victor Vae’au of the NZ Defence Force.

• Unisys teams with ServiceNow to deliver improved Service Management solutions

  “Many enterprises are embracing ServiceNow because it saves money and time in creating and delivering new services that are critical to their business.”

• Mission critical ICT in the era of digital and diverse platforms

  Deane Johns of the NZ Association of Credit Unions and Steve Thompson of Unisys talk about how emerging technologies can be applied to this new environment.

• The pillars of mission-critical ICT

  Technology leaders talk about balancing infrastructure, operations and people requirements in an increasingly competitive and digital environment.
  

• NZ strategy remains as new Unisys CEO comes on board

  “There is no immediate impact on our local team and business."

• Unisys bags six-year New Zealand Transport Agency crash analysis contract

  Under the six-year contract, Unisys will lead the design and implementation of a new version of the CAS based on an open platform.