Lower costs, better

outcomes

ICTI strategy

Metronode opportunity

Service offerings in the market• “Provide a

framework for collaboration between ICTI members to support ICT industry growth”

• Learn to collaborate by collaborating

• A great new facility right here in Wollongong

• Co-location• Virtualisation• Added Services

Why co-locate• How could you better use the floor space currently

consumed by computing?• Is a purpose built, state of the art data centre going

to use less power than you do now?• Should you reduce your carbon footprint like it says

in the strategic plan?• Maybe the pros are better computer rooms than

you?

Might you have one of these….

Might this be better?

Why virtualise?• Would you like your computing to be Opex not Capex?• Get away from the ‘refresh cycle’• Change your computing footprint quickly and easily

( added 2 public hospitals from old servers to new increased the memory and nobody knew )

• Is managing your own infrastructure really cheaper than the market price?

• Could your IT staff spend their time on value adding business applications and not managing infrastructure?

What other services could be valuable?• How good is your backup regime?• How well do you manage long term data storage to

meet legislative requirements?• How well are you protected if someone loses or

damages an iPad or laptop?• What visibility do you have of system performance?• Can you really find the email trail for that key dispute?• Annotations on documents on iPads or tablets can be

legally admissible …. who is backing them up?

By working as part of the ICTI network there may be other opportunities

• When was the last time you benchmarked your network costs?

• What other applications exist in the ICTI network to help your business?

Maybe it is all blue sky, but together we will have tried and learnt