SSP New Zealand, an insurance-technology company, aims to move to a local data host after experiencing disruption following a power cut at its UK centre. The August outage led to its parent company’s Pure Broking cloud-based platform to fail, putting 306 brokers offline for three weeks. “Customers are being hit by the cost of running their own datacenter and we need to find ways around that,” said David Smith, chief executive of SSP, which has offices in Auckland and Wellington.
SSP New Zealand, an insurance-technology company, aims to move to a local data host after experiencing disruption following a power cut at its UK centre. The August outage led to its parent company’s Pure Broking cloud-based platform to fail, putting 306 brokers offline for three weeks. SSP New Zealand is reportedly close to signing a deal with a regional host, but the British Insurance Brokers’ Association has criticised the company, citing a lack of assurances about a successful resolution of the issue.