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Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.
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"Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanised private file and library," wrote information technology visionary Vannevar Bush in the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.
On any list of businesses that can't afford downtime or system failure, power companies have to be close to the top. So when New Zealand electricity and gas generator and retailer Genesis Energy experienced a series of flaws in its backup and recovery systems, it had to act.
IT managers know the ramifications of systems going down or data being lost. But are the cost factors holding IT professionals back from putting disaster recovery processes in place?
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