Admiral Beverage Corporation, a producer and distributor of Pepsi-Cola products, has increased its WAN speed and reliability by aggregating bandwidth from private and public lines of different kinds. [ + ]

After the earthquake that devastated Christchurch in February 2011, IT services company Oxygen IT saved numerous businesses from disaster by recovering their servers and retrieving their data quickly. [ + ]

Outback Stores is a company that manages remote stores on behalf of Australian Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. The company has deployed network and security solutions to securely connect its many remote locations. [ + ]

Wentworth Shire Council has deployed a more resilient IT disaster recovery program in anticipation of catastrophic natural disasters. [ + ]

DreamWorks Animation SKG used hundreds of high-performance workstations, backed up by five server farms, to produce the company’s most technically advanced film to date, Puss in Boots. [ + ]

Westpac Life New Zealand Limited, part of the Westpac Group, the New Zealand financial institution, has implemented data integration software to help power its strategic initiatives around customer centricity and big data. [ + ]

The Royal Adelaide Zoological Society has deployed a 32 Mbps microwave data link to connect its head office in the Adelaide CBD to the Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary, located 25 km away. The link is being used for videoconferencing, VoIP and to replace old cash registers with online point-of-sale systems. [ + ]

As part of a complete IT infrastructure modernisation program, Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) has implemented a Unified Computing System (UCS) and a core and distributed network from Cisco.This has allowed RWWA to better support its online transaction system. [ + ]

Grace Christian School has deployed a web filtering and anonymous proxy prevention solution, providing its students and staff with a safer and more secure IT environment. [ + ]

Perisher snow resort has implemented a paperless ticketing system, by deploying tablet PCs and radio-frequency identification (RFID) gates. [ + ]

Village Roadshow has moved to the cloud with an IaaS model to cope with its massive data growth. [ + ]

The headquarters of the NSW Rural Fire Service (NSWRFS), located in Homebush, is now home to the largest digital video wall in the Southern Hemisphere. The service is using the device as the basis of a comprehensive audiovisual information centre. [ + ]

Grade Four students at Cromer Public School in Sydney are getting a unique glimpse into Japanese life and culture thanks to weekly joint lessons with their classroom counterparts at Kansai University Elementary School in Osaka, Japan, via videoconferencing technology. [ + ]

Members of the Australian Government are able to meet face to face without the need for costly travel, following the successful deployment of the government’s National TelePresence System, based on technology from Cisco and Telstra. [ + ]

Sporting goods retailer Rebel Sport has deployed automated IT systems management software across 130 stores in Australia and New Zealand, as well as its head office. The decision to implement the solution came after Rebel had been grappling with costly, complex, outdated and disparate software solutions for years. [ + ]