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• 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.
  

• 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.

• Mercy Health saves $1.2 million by moving to the cloud

  Victorian-based health care provider Mercy Health has saved an estimated $1.2 million following the migration of production workloads into a hybrid cloud environment.

• 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.

• IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery/resiliency centres

  IBM is about to cut the ribbon officially opening two new state-of-the-art datacentres intended to provide disaster recovery and resiliency services, one in the Raleigh, N.C. area and other in Mumbai, India.

• In pictures: CIO Summit lunch roundtable

  IT leaders gathered at Sydney's Hilton Hotel to discuss their backup and disaster recovery strategies.

• FCC warns that it's still better to call 911 instead of texting

  The FCC says the public should not rely on text messages to reach 911 in emergencies because the technology is only available to 59 of the more than 6,000 emergency communications centers nationwide.

• John Holley: Leadership lessons from the frontline

  Back from his stint as planning officer for the UN Mission in South Sudan, John Holley shares how the Army’s approach to strategic planning and operations can apply to the business environment.

• Christchurch law firm adopts VDI after earthquake

  After catastrophic earthquakes in Christchurch toppled its New Zealand law office, Duncan Cotterill implemented desktop virtualization to provide stronger disaster resilience, according to the law firm’s CIO at the time.

• After first day problems, robotic sub resumes search for Flight 370

  The autonomous underwater robot that began searching for the missing Malaysian airliner Monday ran into trouble on its initial mission but is expected to try again today.

• A CIO who masters disasters

  John Halamka, the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, doesn't let any crisis go unused as either a teachable moment, or as a chance to lead IT into new directions.

• Disaster recovery options for smaller companies

  New technologies are giving small companies enterprise-like DR capabilities