Plan B news stories

Telecommunications company Plan B Group has been officially warned by the Commerce Commission over its failure to meet statutory obligations to provide information needed to calculate the 2019/20 Telecommunications Development Levy.

A large proportion of New Zealand businesses need support to ensure the continuity of their operations.

The solution is designed to support organisations with their customer experience strategies, as well as customer contact and engagements.

Plan B will take over both operations and management of the facility, while customers will see no difference in operations.

"Together, we are creating the right infrastructure that makes it easy and seamless for channel partners to deliver these outcomes with Lenovo."

"You should regularly make copies of data, known as backing up, in case original data is lost or stolen. It’s also vital for your disaster recovery."

Plan B has snapped up pioneer ISP Iconz as it looks to scale up its cloud, data centre and networking services offerings.

Plan B has partnered with Panasonic to develop and launch a cloud archive-as-a-service technology that it says is a world-first innovation.

Plan B has appointed former Vodafone enterprise director Grant Hopkins as its chief commercial officer, which will focus on customer experience.

“There are a lot synergies that we will get out of this to provide a wider and broader offering to our customers.”

Plan B has reached an agreement with voice, video and data network provider Turnstone to acquire the business and assets of the company.

Plan B’s Ian Forrester serves up some pointers for choosing a cloud backup provider.

Backup is only as good as its ability to be recovered. Plan B's Ian Forrester outlines how to ensure recovery.

"The government doesn’t know what it doesn’t know but to run an organisation these days you have to know about this stuff."

"Our newest facility at Tawa is an exciting development for our business with increased Data Centre capacity that we can integrate with our primary services, and additional standby office suites to meet customer demand."

Plan B is branching out to offer production data centre hosting, via a new independent, connected data centre network, and has committed $30 million.

At Plan B, we’ve heard many claims about Business Continuity planning, and a few pearlers keep cropping up.

The acquisition is a complimentary bolt-on to Plan B’s existing private cloud backup and replication business, and is part of a wider acquisition strategy following a period of significant growth in the cloud services business over the past few years.

Recovering servers is usually furthest from an IT Manager’s mind but at Plan B we have an expert team doing just that all day every day.

Business data backup and recovery is more critical today than ever before.

Michael Stiassny has been appointed to the board of Plan-b, New Zealand’s only end-to-end business continuity provider.

We uncover the story behind Plan-b. From its days with IBM’s infamous AS400 servers to the present.

Ken McWilliams joins business continuity provider Plan-b in Wellington to help align organisation for future growth.

A major crisis can be a time that tests relationships, but it can also be a time where the real value of IT partnerships are seen