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Gen-i's out of running for government-as-a-service contract

Alex Walls | Friday August 05, 2011

Telecom unit's bid to provide datacentre housing and utility computing and storage services to government agencies has been unsuccessful

Bye bye Big Blue: IBM datacentre set to lose two customers

IBM's $80 million datacentre
Alex Walls | Thursday July 07, 2011 | 2 comments

IBM is set to lose two large datacentre customers when its Newtown centre closes soon.

No hard feelings as Air NZ chooses $80m IBM data centre

Air NZ chose IBM's $80 million data centre over other providers
Alex Walls | Friday July 01, 2011 | 20 comments

The past is but a shadow as Air New Zealand renews its data centre services contract with IBM, despite a 2009 fumble that affected 10,000 passengers.

IBM's $80 million bet on cloud computing opens in Auckland

IBM's new data centre, in Auckland's East Tamaki
Chris Keall | Friday May 27, 2011 | 2 comments

PLUS: That secret location in full.

Xero taken offline by massive US data centre failure

By Chris Keall | Tuesday June 30, 2009 | 11 comments

One of the drawbacks of cloud computing was dramatically illustrated today as Rackspace - one of the world's largest web hosts - when offline for 45 minutes. New Zealand’s Xero was one of many SaaS (software-as-a-service) providers knocked out by the failure, with glitches continuing for hours.

The accounting software provider went offline around 8.30am as Rackspace, which hosts all of Xero's data, was hit by a still-unexplained, catastrophic failure.

All Xero servers were back up and running by 9.10am chief operations officer Alistair Grigg told NBR.