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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.