When you run a consulting business that services over four million people and your practice spans 1.7 million kilometres you are going to need some help, especially if, in addition to cities and towns, that area includes a mix of wilderness, remote locales and islands. When your business is an essential public service, the problem is compounded by the need to provide equitable access for all regardless of their location.

Australian explorers Chris Bray and Clark Carter have journeyed through the Canadian Arctic with the assistance of several Eee PCs.

The Shoalhaven City Council in New South Wales has selected an Interactive Intelligence solution as its unified communications platform following a competitive tender process administered by PABX Advisory Services Pty Ltd for the GCT-T5 Tender.

Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a public university founded in 1991 as the result of the amalgamation of several Catholic colleges of higher education. It has six campuses across four states and territories, including almost 14,000 students and more than 3000 staff.

After a thorough evaluation of the various VoIP products on the market, including those from the well-known multinational hardware and software vendors, Japanese office machine manufacturer/distributor Kyocera-Mita Australia has chosen CloudWare’s SoftBX Windows telephony software for its nationwide VoIP platform rollout.

OfficeMax, one of the world’s largest office product supply companies with a major B2B presence in the Australian market, has deployed a new unified communications network from Nortel with the intention of cutting costs, improving its environmental credentials and taking its customer service standards to the next level.

Kings Transport, a major Australian metropolitan transport and logistics provider, has chosen new-generation networks provider Uecomm to replace its existing MPLS network with a metro ethernet WAN delivering greater scalability, reliability and flexibility for the business.

With a mission that spreads across every facet of social welfare, The Salvation Army Australia Eastern Territory (The Salvation Army AUE) has more than 350 diverse sites across New South Wales, ACT and Queensland.

Formula One is the most technologically advanced motor sport in the world and from 2007 onwards the AT&T Williams team has been able to tap into the AT&T global network and the company’s in-house expertise, technology and know-how as a worldwide resource at the teams’ disposal.

Canberra Data Centres (CDC) is a wholly Australian owned, hosted data centre company that was established in 2007 to meet the national capital’s current and future data hosting needs.

Orchard, a property funds management company, has invested in a data replication system to help keep the company’s data safe in the event of a disaster.

Global design company, Woods Bagot, has deployed WAN optimisation appliances to optimise the delivery of communications and critical applications from its Sydney office to 10 studios around the world.

Advertising and marketing agency Euro RSCG has deployed Neverfail to provide continuous availability support its BlackBerry smartphone users in Australia and the Asia–Pacific (APAC).

Barminco, an underground mining contractor, has deployed a document management system in order to control its many safety and instruction manuals, as well as track critical financial forms.

A botnet infection has led The Leading Edge, a consultancy firm, to deploy a messaging security gateway appliance with spam protection and antivirus. In doing so, the company improved the availability of its business-critical email systems.