Case Studies
OfficeMax consolidates voice and data network
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.
[ + ]Canberra’s clever, clean and green data centre
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.
[ + ]Printer company embraces local VoIP system
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.
[ + ]Australian Catholic University centralises storage
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.
[ + ]Salvos adopt on-demand IP telephony
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.
[ + ]AT&T keeps the Williams F1 team racing
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.
[ + ]Kings Transport in top gear with new WAN
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.
[ + ]Consultancy banishes botnet with appliance
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.
[ + ]Design firm optimises global WAN
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.
[ + ]Barminco implements document management
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.
[ + ]Agency ensures BlackBerry availability
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).
[ + ]Data replication helps Orchard bloom
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.
[ + ]Melbourne IT improves services with virtualisation
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.
[ + ]Finsia outsources applications and infrastructure
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.
[ + ]Antarctica NZ optimises WAN traffic
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.
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