Plan B stories

PlanB & TechDay partnered on cloud-based data centre services, improving scalability, security, and efficiency while enhancing the reader experience.

Before moving to Plan B, House of Travel had a poor-quality network. Its incumbent provider‘s technology was dated and unreliable.

When Plan B was formed in 1999, we were in a different tech world. But just as technology has evolved over the last 23 years, so has our business.

As IT operations and services continue to accelerate at a rapid rate, so has the increasing number of IT security risks.

Plan B New Zealand, a company renowned for its reliable IT and business continuity services, is bolstering its data centre infrastructure through a partnership with VAST Data.

Plan B believes in creating bold, authentic, meaningful partnerships that simplify the pain points involved in cloud processes.

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.