EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

The Australian Olympics Committee has redesigned its web infrastructure to tap a "pre-warmed" pool of cloud resources in case of any unexpectedly heavy traffic. It hopes to avoid a day-long outage suffered during the Vancouver Winter Olympics two years ago.

And former Westpac tech executive Sarv Girn has been appointed to CIO of the Reserve Bank, ending a three-month search at the institution.

-- James Hutchinson

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