Vanuatu runs within a couple of hours of Australian Eastern time, so a working day here and a working day there are effectively the same. That makes remote database support practical in a way that a northern-hemisphere arrangement never is.
It is also a market where disaster recovery deserves to be taken literally. Organisations in the region plan for events that elsewhere are treated as hypothetical, and a recovery plan that has never been exercised is not a plan — it is a document. The most valuable thing we do for clients in this position is not building the DR environment. It is proving that it works, on a schedule, without taking production down to find out.