SSP, a global provider of cloud-based back office systems for the insurance industry has announced completion of the migration of its New Zealand broker customers to Australian provider Interactive. The move follows a failure in SSP’s own UK data centre that took SSP’s New Zealand customers, and others off the air for up two weeks.
Nearly half of respondents in a recent survey say they've put the kybosh on an IT project, according to a survey by the Information Systems Audit Control Association (ISACA).
A failed switch at TelstraClear’s Auckland facility last week interrupted email, web service and DNS resolution nationwide.
What percentage of IT projects fail? At InfoWorld’s recent SOA Executive Forum in New York, an attendee asked a group of panelists to estimate their success rate on projects. Specifically, he wanted to know how many of their IT initiatives had “failed on any level”.