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The Back-up Plan (Not the movie)
We all have emergency back-up plans for our home to ensure against floods, fires or even thefts. But what about your business? Does it have a back-up plan? With natural disasters affecting many businesses in Australia and New Zealand the need to review disaster...
Our Secret to Power Monitoring
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and the cost of power increasing. If you have looked at an electricity bill recently you may have noticed that it's gone up... again! The Age newspaper was recently told by Ben Freund...
In Our Backyard – An Australian First
Frankston City Council News October 1st 2010 published article: 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...
A ‘Fresh’ Approach to Cooling
If you live in Melbourne as we do, you would know that winter is here, and it is COLD! Typical temperatures during a winter's day don't exceed 13-16 degrees celsius, which begs the question: Why are many data centres spending a fortune on 'cooling' to 19-25 degrees,...
The Power Struggle
Over the last few years Melbourne has experienced some alarming wake-up calls to their energy supply. From failing power due to Bushfires, heat waves and violent storms, to simply not enough power to sustain an expanding city, Melbourne’s “Energy Crisis” has only...
25,000 Litres of Rain
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. A combination of triple particle filters followed by ultra violet...
ISP Filtering Trial
OMNIconnect have agreed to be part of the Australian Government's Filtering Trial. In order to answer your question we have prepared to following FAQs. What is the 'Internet Service Provider (ISP) Filtering Live Pilot'? The ISP Internet Content Filtering Pilot is an...
OCDC becomes first Data Centre to have Telstra’s new Wholesale Wavelength Service
OCDC (OMNIconnect Data Centre) has become the first data centre to have Telstra's new Wholesale Wavelength Service (WWS) offering speeds of 1Gbps, 2.5Gbps and 10Gbps (and multiples of). This will allow hosting customers to connect back to their other locations at...