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News

  • EDS learns useful lessons from outages

    Even a high-profile, internationally regarded provider of services to heavyweight organisations, such as government agencies and banks, gets caught out occasionally.

  • Gov't standards hard to find

    Technical standards for disaster recovery in New Zealand government departments appear to be non-existent and no body appears overly keen to take responsibility for the issue.

  • Sept 11 keeps disaster recovery in forefront

    “How will you get your data back after the "insert catastrophe here” was the title of a Gartner white paper in February 2001. Seven months later, the September 11 terrorist attacks filled in that blank, stunning the US and forcing businesses to consider disaster recovery on a previously unimagined scale.

  • Locals hear recovery, continuity lessons from Sept 11

    No one likes to go through a disaster recovery exercise, but the experience of New York-based financial institution Lehman Brothers’ data centre was worse than most. The company suffered the effects of the disaster that has gone down in history like no other in modern times – the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.

  • Vital services: We're ready

    On the morning of Tuesday, October 30, 2001, as far as Telecom New Zealand was concerned, Wellington was struck by a severe earthquake.

  • When the big one hits

    September 11 concentrated the minds of many on the challenges of security and disaster recovery. But rather than terrorism, New Zealand firms face threats from fires, floods and earthquakes. The principles are essentially the same. Darren Greenwood looks at local disaster recovery and business continuity planning options, and asks what New Zealand organisations are doing about it.

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