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• Fears over DR shortcomings at Queensland hospitals

  Three out of a group of four health services whose disaster recovery preparations have been assessed by the Queensland Audit Office have only basic DR measures in place.

• Failover failure: ASX completes post-mortem on trading system outage

  The ASX has completed an analysis of the events that led to the temporary shut-down of its equities trading system on the morning of 19 September followed by an early market close.

• Queensland auditor issues disaster recovery warning

  Queensland government departments should boost their disaster preparedness, according to a report released today by the state's auditor-general.

• NSW regional councils extend VMware deal

  Forty regional NSW councils, led by Queanbeyan City Council, have extended their contracts with VMware as part of a multi-council deal.

• IT disaster recovery during Cyclone Lam

  Cyclone Lam struck the Northern Territory in February causing millions of dollars in damage. The 230 kilometre-per-hour gusts also threatened to destroy emergency communications systems.

• Go-to storage and disaster recovery products

  LEAF Commercial Capital used to wrestle with tape backups for disaster recovery. Now the equipment leasing and finance company is using a software-based service from Evolve IP for disaster recovery.

• Our bullet-proof LAN failed. Here's what we learned

  In my organization we manage almost all IT in-house, including the LAN, which is highly redundant. We have 35 Floor Wiring Concentrators around campus, each with around 300 active ports, and the concentrators have dual Gigabit uplinks to network cores in two data centers that are 300 meters apart. The data centers are linked by multiple 10Gb links, and each is connected to the Internet via two trunks that follow different paths.

• Data loss, downtime costs Aussie businesses $65B

  Data loss and downtime has cost Australian organisations around $65.5 billion (US$55 billion) in the last 12 months, according to a new survey.
  

• The show must go on: How to prepare a business continuity plan

  Always expect the unexpected: You never know when disaster might strike and you need to have a plan to keep your business operating.

• If Ebola's a problem here, just imagine it in India

  As the U.S. has discovered, it only takes a few cases of Ebola to turn things upside down.

• TasWater archives to deal with data deluge

  Tasmanian bulk water authority TasWater is implementing tiered storage to better manage its growing data volumes.

• Strong solar storm set to arrive won't fry electronics

  Back-to-back solar flares, including one that received the highest classification of "X-Class," are striking the earth. U.S. scientists say electronics shouldn't be hurt, but there could be some GPS issues.

• In earthquakes, alerts may turn machines into action heroes

  The UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory issued an alert about the recent earthquake in California's Napa Valley 10 seconds before it struck. That may not seem like much time -- unless you're a child of the 1950s and 1960s who was trained in school to duck and cover the second you saw a large bright nuclear flash.

• In Napa quake, power surges led to PC damage

  Sunday's 6.0 earthquake in Napa County, Calif. caused power surges that may have led to much of the damage to computers in homes and small businesses, according to computer technicians in Napa.

• IT outages are an ongoing problem for the U.S government

  Fully 70% of federal agencies experienced downtime of 30 minutes or more in a recent one-month period.