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CIO explains catastrophic, all-day computer/internet outage at Auckland University, AUT


Internet, phones, wi-fi down for the day. Around 70,000 students and 7000 staff affected.

Chris Keall
Wed, 20 Mar 2013

A twin generator failure was behind yesterday's catastrophic datacentre outage that took out internet and phone systems all day at Auckland University and AUT University - the country's two largest campuses.

Director of organisational performance and CIO (chief information officer) Stephen

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Chris Keall
Wed, 20 Mar 2013
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