Sydney, 19 May 2011
Leading specialist IT outsourcing provider, ASE, today described how its Best Of Breed Cloud technology has assisted key customer, Australian Power & Gas (ASX: APK), in their dynamic growth strategy and their recent BRW Fast Starter announcement.
ASE Managing Director, Andrew Sjoquist, comments, “Australian Power & Gas required us to implement Disaster Recovery As A Service (DRaaS) from our Cloud, effectively replicating their NetApp storage to ASE’s StorCloud constantly and also replicating their VMware Server environment to ASE’s CPUCloud using VMware SRM.”
Introduced to Australian Power & Gas by key partner VMtech, who helped deploy the Australian Power & Gas internal NetApp and VMWare infrastructure, the ASE Cloud provides business continuity in light of a disaster. VMtech CEO, Len Findlay, agrees, “We chose to partner with ASE to provide Cloud technology as we knew they had a trusted and proven DR offering.”
ASE’s new Business Continuity Centre at Mascot, enables Australian Power & Gas to return its business, financial and reporting systems to full operation within minutes of a disaster occurring, plus provide office space and office IT facilities during a disaster.
Australian Power & Gas Chief Information Officer, Joseph Gullotta said “It was essential we partnered with a company who could provide us with a reliable, stable DR strategy that could increase, on-demand, in line with our business growth, letting us focus on our core business. ASE provides our investors with certainty and comfort, by using proven, Best Of Breed NetApp & Cisco technology.”
Celebrating their 10th year providing IT services to Australian businesses, ASE’s market leading Cloud and Professional Services are helping customers create a cost effective, competitive advantage.
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About ASE
Founded in 2001, to deliver a creative approach to IT, ASE has since grown into a leading specialist IT outsourcing provider. The ASE business is built on the premise that technology is meant to make business easier, not harder and clients shouldn’t be forced to buy software, hardware and services on a ‘one-size fits all’ basis. ASE’s approach is to build modular business services to enable each client to use and pay for only the technology or support they need. For more information, please visit www.ASEIT.com.au.
About VMTech
Virtual Machine Technology (vmtech) is an Australian infrastructure services provider working to help customers across a wide range of industries to maximise business benefits and gain a genuine, measurable return on investment from virtualization technologies. VMtech works with key industry partners such as NetApp, VMware and Microsoft to provide innovative solutions for enterprise cloud strategy, managed services, integration, and storage and network platforms based on a best-of-breed approach. For more information on VMtech and its services, go to www.vmtech.com.au.
About Australian Power and Gas Company Limited (ASX: APK)
Australian Power and Gas Company Limited is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the code APK. Australian Power & Gas holds a full suite of gas and electricity retail licences in Victoria, New South Wales, ACT, South Australia and Queensland. The company benefits from a strong management team, with extensive experience in the energy industry. Australian Power & Gas was announced as the Fastest Starting Company in both the 2010 and 2011 Business Review Weekly Annual Fast Starters List and was placed number 1 on the Business Review Weekly Fast100 list for 2010. For more information on Australian Power & Gas, please visit www.australianpowerandgas.com.au.