To Celebrate a new Financial Year, OMNIconnect has released new pricing for OMNIconnect Fibred Estates.

OMNIconnect Broadband Internet and Data Centre (OCDC)
Data Centre, Internet and Private Networks
To Celebrate a new Financial Year, OMNIconnect has released new pricing for OMNIconnect Fibred Estates.
IDM magazine headlined their recent release with “Councils Dealing with disaster. Business Continuity in the face of floods, wind & fire”. They referenced Sydney Liverpool City Council as a case example. In August 2010 a fire incinerated the council’s offices leaving massive devastation. Archivist Keith Smithers said, “This incident has reinforced the value of electronic records and reinforced the importance of backing them up.”
Symantec Corp, renowned security firm, recently released their findings of their 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, which measured “the attitudes and practices of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and their customers toward disaster preparedness.”
The survey findings showed that while SMB’s were at risk of data disaster, a disaster recovery plan was still not high on the agenda. The survey also analysed the costs of not being prepared. “Disasters can have a significant financial impact on SMBs. Downtime costs SMBs a median of $12,500 per day. It costs small businesses a median of $3,000 per day and medium businesses a median of $23,000 per day.”
The conclusion? “Don’t wait until it’s too late!”
If you would like a quote for colocation or redundancy in our disaster recovery centre for your business back-up plan, please give us a call on (03) 9770 333 or email enquiries@omniconnect.com.au
These Smart Power Cables use wireless mesh networking to aggregate the data to a central server and then massage it into a readable format so it can not only accurately pass on power costs to the appropriate customers, but also very easily manage rack and room power density.
Carrum Downs Industrial Estate is the first estate in Australia with a service equal to or better than that provided by the proposed National Broadband Network (NBN), offering the potential to improve business productivity.
If you live in Melbourne as we do, you would know that winter is here, and it is COLD!
Inner city hosting providers are finding themselves at capacity, unable to provide more than 2-3 Kilowatts per rack due to unsustainable ageing infrastructure. This has seen a push towards Data Centre establishment outside of Metro Melbourne.
OMNIconnect are taking a lead in this direction. While they do house several Data Centre’s in Melbourne CBD, they have built and established their main Data Centre in Carrum Downs at the end of the newly constructed Eastlink Freeway.
Peter Hutton, Managing director of OMNIconnect, explains the reasons for this move: “The decision to move OMNIconnect’s main offices and Data Centre to a greenfield site with ample underground power in Carrum Downs was supported by various reasons. A main concern was of course power. There is less load on the grid down here and it is easier to upgrade power whenever the need arises. There was also the advantage of ample space to expand and store our diesel generators. Really, our servers and computers need to be where it easy to get power in real estate that’s affordable, Melbourne city simply didn’t offer a practical or scalable solution.”
However, many ISP’s shy away from the idea of moving too far from the city. Perhaps the fears of connectivity or access to the city have outweighed their fear of failing power availability. Peter Hutton explains how he overcame this potential problem: “Really, there has been no issue with connectivity into Melbourne. Our Microwave links give us line of sight into the heart of the CBD and the surrounding local ranges giving us diversity into Melbourne. In addition to this, we have Fibre directly connected to a distribution hub in Melbourne. The Eastlink freeway has made access to the city simple.”
As we are committed to building a sustainable and dare we say ‘green’ data centre and business, we have installed a 25,000 litre rainwater tank with a filtration system that rivals Melbourne Water’s.
OMNIconnect has extended it’s reach by acquiring a large network in the South Gippsland region. The network previously owned by Chariot/TPG covers a wide area including POP’s in Foster, Koonwarra, Korumburra, Wonthaggi, and Lookout Hill.
South Gippsland Water is the principal client on the network, whose extensive service area covers over 4,000 sq kms. South Gippsland Water’s network of facilities and sites, are connected via the OMNIconnect Wireless/DSL network providing Data and Internet carriage.
A major upgrade of sites and equipment has commenced to ensure future reliability and continuity of services. For more information on OMNIconnect’s solutions in the South Gippsland region or elsewhere please contact Sales on:
(03) 9770 3333 or sales@omniconnect.com.au