EDITOR’S NOTE
Welcome to the second edition of
Intelligent CIO magazine for the
APAC region.
This edition’s cover features Matt Kolkka,
Senior IT Officer of Coral Homes, and
we look at how the leading Australian
housebuilder has transformed its storage
performance by deploying solutions from
StorageCraft. It has successfully tackled its
data storage and protection challenges.
Having previously been in a situation where
the loss of data created major problems
for the company, Coral Homes benefitted
from StorageCraft’s OneXafe solution. With
OneXafe’s continuous data protection,
Coral Homes’ data is now resilient against
ransomware or user errors, ensuring that it is
always recoverable.
And the OneXafe solution offers a seamless
data platform which unified data with scaleout
storage in an easy-to-use format.
“Previously having the data offsite, it felt as if
our data was held at ransom, the change of
having access in our office ensured we could
do what we needed, adding value to our
company,” said Kolkka.
You can find out more, including details of
the installation process, by turning to p56.
Elsewhere in the magazine we look at how
Trustpower, a leading power company and
Internet service provider based in New
Zealand, ensured uninterrupted network
availability by turning to Veeam. Benefits
include near-instant access to data across
several locations and reliable recovery if
production storage fails.
Gavin Sanders, ISP Systems Engineer at
Trustpower, told us: “I’m able to sleep better
at night, with the confidence that we can
restore critical services if required. After all,
a backup strategy is only as good as the last
validated restore,” he said. To find out more
turn to p61.
On p82 we take a look at how financial
institutions stand the best chance of
achieving cyber hygiene if they make it
their mission to teach their workforce about
important cybersecurity behaviors.
David Sajoto, Vice President of Sales
for Asia Pacific and Japan, ExtraHop,
explains the importance of cyber hygiene
for finance organizations.
He tells us: “Testing employees’ awareness,
knowledge and technical capabilities – and
their current utilization of those capabilities
– can help enterprises determine where
resources would be best focused, to mitigate
the collective risk.”
Don’t forget you can read daily news
updates at www.intelligentcio.com/apac/.
Once again, I’d like to wish you a good
month ahead and please enjoy the read!
Mark Bowen
Editor
www.intelligentcio.com
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