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.
EMC has won a contract to provide a turn-key data backup, recovery and archive system for The New Zealand Defence Force.
While the prospect of military bases being closed has gained the lion’s share of media coverage since the Defence White Paper was published earlier this month, ICT figures as highly in the Paper’s prescription for the New Zealand Defence, as does closing bases and rationalising the Force’s property portfolio.
The New Zealand Defence Force is one step closer to being a modern, technologically-enabled military with the installation of virtual simulators at the Royal New Zealand Navy base in Devonport, Auckland.
Server virtualisation, IP-based systems running an environmentally-friendly building, and a web-based, collaborative system allowing air traffic managers and airlines to more effectively work together all feature among the finalists in the Best Sustainable IT Project category of the Computerworld Excellence Awards.
The New Zealand Defence Force last week put a tender for a patient management system on hold.
Colonel James Thomson (pictured) says he expected “beer and beaches” on his seven-month tour of duty in East Timor.
Recruitment drive is part of move towards a unified IS environment
Many users complain about network settings