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• Revera COO leaves as Cockayne remains

  Andrew Seerden, who was appointed chief operating officer of Revera in August, has left the company.
  His decision to depart was driven by Roger Cockayne deciding to stay on as chief executive officer. Seerden had been appointed to the COO role as part of a succession plan to enable Cockayne to taper off operational management responsibilities and focus on strategic initiatives.
  Cockayne is the co-founder of Revera.
  Seerden joined Revera after a period of management consulting. Previously, he was general manager of the Hewlett-Packard Imaging and Printing Group and held senior roles at Compaq. The longer-term plans were for him to take the role of CEO with Cockayne as executive director.
  At the time, Cockayne described Seerden’s appointment as a key milestone.

• The serious business of business continuity

  In October, Air New Zealand suffered a serious failure when its mainframe went down, crashing the airline’s check-in, call centre and booking systems.

• Seerden takes new Revera role

  Revera has appointed Andrew Seerden to the new role in the company of chief operating officer.

• Revera eyes expansion in Supercity plan

  Auckland-based hosting company Revera is confident the proposed Supercity will present it with new business opportunities, as the Auckland Transition Authority (ATA) grapples with the task of integrating the differing ICT systems of the various Auckland councils.

• Revera buys Livestock Improvement's datacentre

  Hamilton-based Livestock Improvement (LIC) has signed a five-year deal with infrastructure provider Revera for utility computing.

• Planning for the unlikely - and the unthinkable

  When Auckland company James Odell, which customises cars, was gutted by a fire, it was faced with a wrecked laptop that contained all the vital information about the company.

• Kiwi hosters unfazed by Microsoft’s cloud move

  Local hosting companies appear more positive about Microsoft’s move towards cloud computing than some of the software giant’s US partners.

• Pay-as-you-go ICT arrives for some

  US blogger and writer Nicholas Carr (who recently published the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”) wrote the controversial book Does IT matter? in 2004. In the book, Carr questioned the value of corporate IT and instead proposed that IT services should be delivered like electricity — as a utility.

• Revera takes on Christchurch with Addington base

  Revera is opening a hosting facility in Christchurch, leasing building space at the Addington Business Park.
  The company has relocated four staff to operate the business.

• Feature: New datacentres demand new servers

  The University of Auckland has overhauled its enterprise architecture, focusing on its datacentre, server and storage management and disaster recovery and reducing hundreds of physical servers down to 26.

• Revera adds MS HyperV to offerings

  New Zealand datacentre and hosting company Revera has added Microsoft’s HyperV virtualisation as an alternative offering to VMware.

• NZ datacentres 'irresponsible', says Revera chief

  Most New Zealand datacentre investment is irresponsible in terms of location, sustainability and management, says Revera chief executive Wayne Norrie.

• Outsourced IT fits bill at Te Roopu Taurima

  One of New Zealand’s largest Kaupapa Maori disability healthcare providers, Te Roopu Taurima O Manukau, has signed a three-year contract to outsource its entire IT operations to local datacentre and infrastructure provider Revera.

• Planning for the unthinkable

  Six steps to disaster-proofing

• Revera builds cool next-generation datacentres

  Datacentre outsourcing company Revera has invested up to $10 million in new datacentres to capitalise on the move towards dense computing and virtualisation.