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TPG takeover bid to acquire IntraPower finalised
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
TPG takeover bid to acquire IntraPower finalised Read More
TPG Telecom Limited: proposal to acquire IntraPower Limited
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
TPG Telecom Limited: proposal to acquire IntraPower Limited Read More
IntraPower and UXC Connect partnership targets Cloud security
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Two of Australia’s leading information communications technology companies, IntraPower Ltd (ASX: IPX) and UXC Connect, today announced a partnership delivering a major breakthrough in Cloud computing security and reliability. The two companies said the partnership created a new joint force focused on cost-effectively providing secure and reliable Cloud computing via IntraPower’s new Trusted Cloud computing platform. Read More
Free and discounted IT gets flood-hit Queensland businesses back online
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Hundreds of businesses in Brisbane’s CBD and other flood affected areas are still at a standstill because they cannot access their computer networks, according to an IT company which is offering free and discounted services to help flood-affected businesses. The delays are caused by the challenge of building clean up and in particular restoration of elevator services that require maintenance and safety work to be completed before they can be put back into operation. Read More
IntraPower wins ATUG - 2011 Best Communications Solution Award
Friday, 1 April 2011
IntraPower awarded Best Communications Initiative - Small Business by the Australian Telecommunications Users. Read More
'Cloud CIO' joins research firm Longhaus
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Former chief information officer and Cloud advocate, Scott Stewart, will join Australian research firm, Longhaus, to lead research at the firm Read More
Implementing Cloud Computing - A Case Study in Financial Services
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Despite its critics, it can be argued that Cloud Computing is much more than the latest IT jargon, hot topic or new IT Service Delivery offering. With organisations such as Amazon moving early to establish private cloud services and the increasingly rapid uptake by business, Cloud Computing is proving to be transformational. Despite its potential in service and equipment savings, many are still cautious of the promise of the Cloud, citing issues such as privacy and security risks. Read More
Exclusive Cloud Computing interview with IT News and Scott Stewart, CIO, Wilson HTM
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Cloud Computing in Australasia is only in its infancy. This interview with Scott Stewart, CIO, Wilson HTM Investment Group explores how 'cloud' will be the next big thing in IT, globally. Read More
16 Key Attributes of Cloud Computing
Friday, 7 January 2011
16 Key Attributes of Cloud Computing Read More
Melbourne Breakfast Seminar - 3rd of December (change of date)
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Today, businesses are facing a new revolution – Cloud Computing. Like steam as a source of power, the traditional mode of computing is fast becoming outdated and cumbersome. And, like electricity, Cloud Computing will change the face of business forever. Read More
IntraPower Breakfast Seminar - 29th September
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Today, businesses are facing a new revolution – Cloud Computing. Like steam as a source of power, the traditional mode of computing is fast becoming outdated and cumbersome. And, like electricity, Cloud Computing will change the face of business forever. Read More
Why Private Cloud Computing is not a DIY Activity
Monday, 27 September 2010
In Australia the notion of DIY is alive and well. You only have to look at the performance of the Bunnings hardware chain that in the second half of 2009 posted earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of $711 million on sales of just $2.28 billion; an enviable EBIT-to-sales profit margin of over 30%. Clearly DIY is a big business. When it comes to ICT the Australian market, despite being a highly mature services market where outsourcing is common place, we continue to hold on to the DIY mentalit Read More
Webinar recording - Why Wilson HTM is moving to the Trusted Cloud
Monday, 21 June 2010
Wilson HTM CIO, Scott Stewart, and Research Director of ICT at Longhaus research, Sam Higgins, review Wilson HTM’s decision to move their complete IT infrastructure to the cloud. Learn how Wilson HTM is upgrading their IT capability, cutting cost and finding more time to focus on their core business. Find out more about the Trusted Cloud, Virtual Desktops and how they improve the way a business works. Read More
Longhaus reviews IntraPower's Business On-Demand
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Whilst there is much discussion from global vendors regarding Desktop as a Service, Longhaus reviews a local solution that is operational now. Intrapower offers their business on demand services signifying a leap ahead of it's competitors. Read More
CIO Summit Webcast Interview with IntraPower
Thursday, 12 August 2010
CIO editor Georgina Swan talks to Darc Rasmussen about the ‘trusted cloud’ computing model. Read More
Business Spectator:Wilson HTM signs $16m IntraPower Business On-Demand platform contract
Friday, 18 June 2010
Wilson HTM Investment Group will move its entire IT infrastructure and application delivery to the IntraPower Ltd cloud computing platform, Business On-Demand, in a five-year, $16 million agreement. Read More
Computerworld: Wilson HTM to float on the cloud
Friday, 18 June 2010
Wilson HTM Investment Group (ASX:WIG) will move its entire IT infrastructure to IntraPower’s cloud computing platform in a $16 million deal. More than 400 Wilson HTM employees in 15 locations across the country will have access to a virtual desktop, which will include applications from Microsoft Office. Read More
Brisbane Business News:Wilson HTM signs $16M IT deal
Sunday, 20 June 2010
IT and communications provider IntraPower Limited (IPX) today signed a $16 million contract with Wilson HTM Investment Group. The five-year deal will see the company provide Wilson HTM’s complete IT infrastructure using its cloud computing platform Business On-Demand. Read More
Smart Grid: Pay per use way to go for Wilson HTM
Friday, 23 July 2010
IntraPower has won Wilson HTM as a client. The financial services group will source cloud computing software services from the IT firm under the $A16m agreement, which signals a growing trend for yearly software licence fees to be abandoned in favour of payments on an as-needed basis in the sector. Wilson also wants to launch a secure virtual desktop solution in 2011. Read More
Money Management: Wilson HTM signs up for IntraPower cloud computing
Friday, 23 July 2010
Wilson HTM Investment Group has struck a $16 million deal with the information technology and communications group IntraPower to migrate its complete IT infrastructure and application delivery to the IntraPower cloud computing platform, Business On-Demand. Read More
CFO World Reports : IntraPower wins cloud contract from Wilson HTM
Saturday, 19 June 2010
ICT company IntraPower (ASX:IPX) has been awarded a contract to migrate Wilson HTM's entire IT infrastructure and application delivery to IntraPower's Business On-Demand cloud platform. The five-year agreement is worth over $16 million, IntraPower said. Investment company Wilson HTM intends to rid its reliance on in-house IT infrastructure and systems, with staff accessing virtual desktops to perform computing tasks. The company has over 400 employees in 15 locations across Australia Read More
CIO Magazine reports : Wilson HTM signs $16m, 5-year deal in the cloud
Saturday, 19 June 2010
CIO Magazine reports : Wilson HTM Investment Group has signed an $16 million, five-year agreement with IntraPower Limited to move its complete IT infrastructure and application delivery to the cloud. Read More
Wilson HTM Investment Group signs up for IntraPower Trusted Cloud Computing in a 5 year, $16 million agreement
Friday, 18 June 2010
IntraPower Limited (ASX:IPX), today announced an agreement with Wilson HTM Investment Group (ASX:WIG) to migrate their complete IT infrastructure and application delivery to the IntraPower trusted cloud computing platform, Business On-Demand. Read More
What the Bankers Say About the Cloud
Monday, 14 June 2010
According to Morgan Stanley, half of the CIOs surveyed plan to use desktop virtualization next year, which the firm believes could double the reach of client virtualization. Morgan sees the VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) market growing to a $1.5 billion opportunity by 2014. This would represent a 67% compound annual growth rate. Read More
QBR: Wilson signs $16m deal with IntraPower
Sunday, 27 June 2010
Information technology and communications group IntraPower has announced an agreement with leading financial services firm Wilson HTM Investment to migrate its complete IT infrastructure and application delivery to the IntraPower cloud computing platform. Read More
An interview with Telstra Wholesale
Friday, 8 January 2010
Group CEO and MD Greg Kennish offers Telstra Wholesale a snapshot of IntraPower Read More
30 per cent of ANZ organisations exposed to unnecessary risk
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Research released today has identified one in three organisations are unable to recover files from backup tape. Read More
Time to kill the private cloud?
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Public cloud compute pioneer Amazon.com has slammed the marketing campaigns of the world's largest hardware and software vendors over the use of the phrase "private cloud." Read More
How to ctrl, alt, delete $48 billion
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $US38 billion ($A48 billion). Read More
Cloud Computing Ascends the Mainstream
Friday, 6 February 2009
"Moving to the cloud was like dying and going to heaven. Not having to lay out money for servers is a big deal for a business like ours. This allows us to 'rent' everything, on an as-needed basis: CPUs, memory, disks, firewalls, bandwidth ... we turn machines up and down as needed, we can store data at many levels, move IP addresses between machines, change firewall rules on the fly - all very boring stuff for most people, but to someone who's been managing software in data centres for almost Read More
Roundtable: A Software and Services Alternative
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Software-as-a-service is coming to the fore as organisations look to rein in their IT costs and gain better software efficiencies. ARN recently hosted a roundtable with a group of industry representatives to talk about the pros and cons of an on-demand world. Read More
IntraPower Completes Biz-Friendly Network
Sunday, 28 June 2009
IntraPower completes biz-friendly network Brisbane-based telecommunications provider IntraPower has announced the completion of the IntraPower High Availability Network (IHAN). The IHAN achieves multi-carrier diversity by integrating the parallel services from carriers, such as Telstra, AAPT, Optus and Nextgen. As a result, IntraPower is offering SMEs a higher level of reliability, performance and diversity than any one provider or carrier can offer on their own. Read More
IntraPower sells Platinum License for $1.5M cash
Thursday, 23 April 2009
IntraPower sells Platinum License for $1.5M cash to one of its channel partners, providing access to a group of small, non-core corporate customers. This deal provides further ability for the company to focus on its evolution to be the leading Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) provider to SME’s in Australia via its IntraPower Business On-Demand offering. This movement to SaaS is expected to be one of the leading trends for corporate customers over the next 5 years as they look to minimize their Read More
IntraPower Completes Key Milestone
Thursday, 18 June 2009
IntraPower has today announced the completion of the IntraPower High Availability Network (IHAN). With the completion of the IHAN, highlighted as a key future milestone in the company’s prospectus, IntraPower offers its customers and partners the essential simultaneous utilisation of multiple top tier carriers thereby enjoying maximum levels of performance, redundancy and reliability of service as a result. Read More
The Rise of Service-Oriented IT and the Birth of Infrastructure as a Service
Sunday, 29 March 2009
The Rise of Service-Oriented IT and the Birth of Infrastructure as a Service. Services-oriented IT may turn out to be one of the major breakthroughs in the IT industry, but it won’t be an overnight success. The majority of the IT industry continues to use traditional business models of selling hardware, software and services. However, these traditional models are being expanded to embrace a services orientation Read More
IntraPower’s Communications Plan for the Swine (Mexican) Flu Pandemic
Monday, 11 May 2009
The current Pandemic alert level has risen to Phase 5. The declaration of Phase 5 is a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short. IntraPower has a well developed plan that help you, your employees and your organization complete a Phase 5 plan that will protect your employees and ensure the continuity of your business. Read More
SaaS to Get a Bump Up from the Down Economy?
Monday, 16 February 2009
Different waves of computing have been fostered as much by economic hard times as they have been by technological gadgetry and buzz. Some technological transitions start out as good ideas, but bad economies turn them from interesting ideas for some future time to products that must be tried out right now in an effort to cut costs or improve the running of the company in some way. So it might be in 2009 with software as a service, or SaaS. Read More
The SMB Channel Wants to Sell SaaS and Managed Services
Monday, 11 August 2008
AMI-Partners is an IT consultancy that makes a living tracking what technologies and management techniques are being deployed by small and medium businesses; think of it as a Gartner and IDC for the little guys. And according to a recent report, two areas are heating up in the SMB spaceSaaS and managed servicesand AMI is advising companies in the IT channel that service SMB shops start looking in this area. Read More
Why isn't the business PC dead yet?
Monday, 24 November 2008
It's not everyday you look forward to a funeral, but I can't wait for the death of the business desktop. It's not that I dislike the loyal business desktop, it's just that it's getting a little past its prime. After all, it takes a lot of time, energy and money to maintain, manage, patch and keep up to date. Worst of all, in its old age it's starting to get a little fat. Read More
How cloud computing could change your business – and save you thousands
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
If you want to slash your IT spending, maximise the flexibility of your systems, and be able to run your business from almost anywhere, then it's time to jump on the hot new IT trends: cloud computing, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Read More
IntraPower Takes on New National Sales Director
Monday, 15 September 2008
IntraPower has appointed Darc Rasmussen as national director of sales. Read More
IntraPower Buys Into Wavenet
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
IntraPower has made its second acquisition of the month by buying 51 per cent of managed services provider, Wavenet.The Melbourne - based company provides solutions as a service incorporating Read More
10 Real Cost-Cutting Technologies For 2009
Monday, 23 February 2009
It's no secret that customers are reluctant to part with their hard-earned cash during the economic downturn, but that doesn't mean IT sales will come to a standstill. Savvy solution providers will show that by spending a little now on the right technologies, customers will actually save down the road and gain a competitive edge over their rivals to boot. With that in mind, CRN has identified 10 real cost-cutting solutions that will play big in 2009. Read More
Ten cloud trends for 2010
Monday, 15 February 2010
Critical success factors and the major focus in the next 12 months. Read More
IntraPower to present at ALPMA SA event
Monday, 1 March 2010
Unless your core business is technology, why invest your time, money and effort building and maintaining complex IT environments? You probably wouldn’t build and run your own power generator, employ mechanics to service your motor vehicles, or build and manage your own office buildings, so why would you run all of your complex technology systems in-house rather than focusing on your core business? Read More
Hack attack - rising risk for business
Monday, 8 March 2010
The pace of cyber attacks on Australian companies is picking up, a new report shows, underscoring the growing risk of financial loss for companies at the hands of hackers. Read More
Toyota looks to abandon in-house IT
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Toyota Australia is placing all its bets on the cloud computing model, and is on a mission to rid itself of any enterprise IT infrastructure within five years. Michael Jenkins, manager of enterprise architecture and strategy at Toyota Australia, boldy told the CeBIT datacentre conference in Sydney today that he is looking forward to a future in which all applications are delivered via the cloud from data centres that are completely "transparent" and "invisible". Read More
SaaS e-mail service keeps Wesfarmers ticking
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
The Wesfarmers group is a very large conglomerate of companies that together employ some 200,000 people, but the corporate head office in Perth has about 250 staff, including all the senior executives. Read More
Bank looks to cloud to blow away licence costs
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
"We can then free up our resources to focus on higher value activity closer to the customer and deliver service more rapidly and cheaper." There was still resistance from classic box providers, but if that was prolonged it could be to the detriment of vendors, he said. "That's understandable ... they're not too keen on virtualisation, grid or cloud (but) market forces will break that." Read More
Gartner urges channel to embrace cloud
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Resellers should not be afraid of technical advances such as cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS), a leading Gartner analyst has warned. Read More
CBA attack dogs growl at computer giants
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The Commonwealth Bank has a rich history of taking on the IT sector – eight years ago it was then CEO David Murray who launched a blistering attack on computer companies, and now the bank’s group executive of enterprise services and CIO, Michael Harte has come out swinging against technology companies which have clung to legacy pricing models and vendor lock in. Read More
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Norwest Productions Pty Ltd is based in Sydney, with offices in multiple locations around Australia, New Zealand and China. Norwest Productions is Australia and New Zealand’s largest audio service provider, supplying big events such as Melbourne’s Commonwealth Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Read More
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