OBT Deploys Melbourne Node for Cloud Services Continuity
Announcement posted by OBT 12 Dec 2011
Sydney, 12 December 2011 – OBT, a leading Australian private cloud services provider, has announced that it can now offer Australian businesses additional disaster recovery, high availability and failover services with the addition of a point of presence in Melbourne.
OBT’s approach and experience in designing and delivering cloud services has been developed over the past 12 years and its strategy remains to continually improve the level of risk management systems and processes in place.
“Business continuity is vital to our customers because they need access and quick recovery to information on a regular basis. With capability now in place to failover from both Sydney and Melbourne, our new service will help businesses to implement various measures to enhance corporate governance, risk management and internal control practices,” said Shane Muller, managing director, OBT.
Security, reliability and scalability are natural concerns for domestically focused business.
“In a country like Australia, businesses are unfortunately all too familiar with the impact of natural disasters. Indeed, Brisbane’s floods earlier this year demonstrated the power of the physical environment to disrupt business.
“Managers understand that natural disasters are more commonplace than rare but power failure*, IT hardware failure and human error can also cause mass chaos. Successful organisations of any size realise that any disruption, regardless of how small, will have an impact on the business as a whole. Our new Melbourne node will now further assist companies in complying with their disaster recovery and business continuity requirements,” said Muller.
*Eaton Industries’ Australian and New Zealand Blackout Tracker Annual Report for 2010 found that Queensland reported the greatest number of power outages with 29 incidents followed by a tie between New South Wales and Victoria with 17 outages each. Storms were responsible for the three most significant blackouts reported during the year with the biggest outage occurring in Perth when storm gusts and torrential rain cut power to 150,000 people. A lightning strike in Darwin took second place honours when it cut power to 130,000 people for over ten hours, while the third most significant outage occurred when strong winds downed power lines and interrupted power for 100,000 people in Palm Beach, Queensland.
About OBT
Established in 1999, OBT is a pioneering and innovative private cloud service provider. Through its Anywhere Suite and flagship offering, Desktop Anywhere,OBT delivers a customised technology infrastructure via the cloud – all for the purpose of making business easier. With a focus on having the right people to create a framework to support its customers in each stage of their growth, OBT offers customisable services to customers with 20-800 staff, either directly or through channel partners.
OBT currently delivers Australia-wide services with data centres located in Sydney and Melbourne.
OBT is a Microsoft Gold Hosting Partner and a Citrix Solutions Advisor.
OBT’s approach and experience in designing and delivering cloud services has been developed over the past 12 years and its strategy remains to continually improve the level of risk management systems and processes in place.
“Business continuity is vital to our customers because they need access and quick recovery to information on a regular basis. With capability now in place to failover from both Sydney and Melbourne, our new service will help businesses to implement various measures to enhance corporate governance, risk management and internal control practices,” said Shane Muller, managing director, OBT.
Security, reliability and scalability are natural concerns for domestically focused business.
“In a country like Australia, businesses are unfortunately all too familiar with the impact of natural disasters. Indeed, Brisbane’s floods earlier this year demonstrated the power of the physical environment to disrupt business.
“Managers understand that natural disasters are more commonplace than rare but power failure*, IT hardware failure and human error can also cause mass chaos. Successful organisations of any size realise that any disruption, regardless of how small, will have an impact on the business as a whole. Our new Melbourne node will now further assist companies in complying with their disaster recovery and business continuity requirements,” said Muller.
*Eaton Industries’ Australian and New Zealand Blackout Tracker Annual Report for 2010 found that Queensland reported the greatest number of power outages with 29 incidents followed by a tie between New South Wales and Victoria with 17 outages each. Storms were responsible for the three most significant blackouts reported during the year with the biggest outage occurring in Perth when storm gusts and torrential rain cut power to 150,000 people. A lightning strike in Darwin took second place honours when it cut power to 130,000 people for over ten hours, while the third most significant outage occurred when strong winds downed power lines and interrupted power for 100,000 people in Palm Beach, Queensland.
About OBT
Established in 1999, OBT is a pioneering and innovative private cloud service provider. Through its Anywhere Suite and flagship offering, Desktop Anywhere,OBT delivers a customised technology infrastructure via the cloud – all for the purpose of making business easier. With a focus on having the right people to create a framework to support its customers in each stage of their growth, OBT offers customisable services to customers with 20-800 staff, either directly or through channel partners.
OBT currently delivers Australia-wide services with data centres located in Sydney and Melbourne.
OBT is a Microsoft Gold Hosting Partner and a Citrix Solutions Advisor.