CMVP Certified Partners at Total Utilities

In a new move from the EECA, funding applicants need a programme partner who has CMVP (Certified Measurement and Verification) certified individuals. Total Utilities’ CMVP certified staff can help you with EECA applications under the CMVP partner programme in...

Commerce Commission Rules on Unfair Terms

The recent Commerce Commission ‘ruling’ on Unfair Contract Terms for utilities is great news for businesses. Total Utilities has been negotiating utility agreements since 1999 and a recurring bugbear for us in the past 16 years has been the use of automatic contract...

Cloud Services Management – Part Two

Having outlined some of the structural issues facing CIO’s and providers of cloud service management processes in my previous blog on managing cloud infrastructure I am left with a real challenge. As a critic of the old, over scaled, expensive and wasteful ESM/ITIL...

Managing the Cloud

I get a strong sense that CIO’s across New Zealand want to make changes but feel burdened by their existing provider and service constructs. Ironically the situation is the same whether they do the work in-house or outsource it to a trusted provider. CIO’s and Service...