WebCentral — a key brand of leading global domain name and online services provider, Melbourne IT — has deployed virtualisation technology to provide ‘on demand’ services to its customers.

Following the sale of a business unit in 2007, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) revamped its entire IT infrastructure, ultimately settling on a set of managed IT services.

Middletons, an Australian law firm with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, recently moved its backup from a tape-based solution to an online system.

To cope with increasing compliance demands, utility provider ActewAGL has deployed an archiving and backup system with search and recovery capabilities.

SA Heart Centres, the largest cardiology group in Australia, recently updated its ageing communications network, which had been slowing the group’s development.

Like many small and mid-size businesses, Australasian Merchandisers reached a point where its tape backup system no longer met its rising demands for data protection and disaster recovery. Australasian is an importer and distributor of stationery products in Australia. The computer systems supporting its business operations were storing increasing quantities of file and application data. It needed to protect this data and ensure its availability, but the tape backup system it used was slow and prone to failures.

Charles Sturt University has signed Interactive Intelligence to deploy unified communications across the university’s multiple campuses.

Scott Base, a remote New Zealand government research station in Antarctica, has increased the amount of traffic it can send and receive with WAN optimisation.

The Western Australia Police (WAPOL) recently upgraded its radio communications infrastructure to a secure, encrypted digital voice network with a separate data radio network, in order to better protect the citizens of Western Australia.

When Optus built a new campus-style headquarters in Macquarie Park, Sydney, the company selected Andrew Wireless Solutions to design and install an in-building wireless mobile communication infrastructure system.

The Australian National University (ANU) has deployed a disaster recovery system based on a 1 Gbps free space optics (FSO) link, which it first tested at the IPv6 Summit in 2007 with the help of Google Earth. The FSO-based system replaces the university’s previous 100 Mbps microwave radio-based strategy.

Carrying a laptop in a kayak across the Tasman Sea might seem insane, but it’s exactly what James Castrission and Justin Jones did in their journey from Australia to New Zealand.

Established in 1874, the University of Adelaide now boasts a student population of more than 20,000. The university has recently replaced its anti-malware system.

Vodafone Australia recently replaced its manual marketing processes with an automated software solution, slowing customer churn to other operators.

Perth-based ISP Westnet has augmented its existing storage infrastructure in order to cope with recent surges of growth.