CASE STUDY

Initially , the CGC provided advice regarding grants made by the Commonwealth Government . Since the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) was introduced in 1999 , the CGC now advises on how this source of revenue should be distributed .

Replacing an ageing access infrastructure

“ In mid-2019 , we realized we needed to find a different way to deploy and maintain our IT infrastructure ,” said CGC Chief Operating Officer , Greg Freeman . “ At that time , we had our own servers and local area networking equipment on-premise and wanted to shift to a cloud-based platform .”

Freeman said this move to the cloud was part of an ‘ anywhere , anytime , any device ’ strategy that had been adopted by the organization and enables it to maintain Business Continuity and rapidly support staff wherever they may be located . There was also a plan in place to shift into new premises in about 18 months and a need to improve performance to access cloud-based solutions .

For several years , the CGC ’ s staff had relied on a Secure Internet Gateway ( SIG ) service based on a 10Mbps network link . This SIG was the only link with the outside world and congestion and performance had gradually become a significant issue .

“ To upgrade the bandwidth available through the SIG would have been prohibitively expensive ,” he said . “ We had already been spending a significant amount annually with our SIG provider for the 10Mbps connection and we were quoted several multiples of this

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