Power outage in Auckland propels business continuity in the spotlight
Business continuity management is a 'perpetual organisational initiative', notes Gartner.
Business continuity management is a 'perpetual organisational initiative', notes Gartner.
Optus has restored more than 50 per cent of sites that have been out due to flooding in the Central and South East areas of Queensland.
Orcon’s datacentre on Auckland's North Shore went down on Monday morning.
When the power went out in Manhattan late Thursday afternoon (Friday morning NZ time), the stock markets had already closed. But the crucial trade-settlement system that uses thousands of batch-processing computers around New York City to clear billions of dollars in trades had just come to life.
No indication of a terrorist act
Independent third party will audit EDS’s explanations
Possibility of compensation from other parties being considered
At Computerworld's deadline, EDS was still putting together a report on the cause or causes of its power outage just over a week ago (see EDS seeks outage answers), which disrupted overnight settlement of banking transactions nationwide.
"Reliability should not be too difficult to maintain”
Bank will waive fees and interest charges incurred by customers