WorkCover Queensland has made the decision to stop managing its own core IT infrastructure, and has instead moved it to two externally provided data centres that it believes will help cater for the organisation's future growth. The organisation realised that running its own data centre services in-house was no longer part of its core business activities, and, as a result, moved its network, storage and servers to Queensland Government provider CITEC, to be housed in its Brisbane CBD data centre and the Polaris data centre where it rents space.

"This is a step in the direction of making greater use of managed or cloud-based infrastructure. We are trialling SaaS [software as a service] and IaaS [infrastructure as a service] for some noncritical
applications, and are investigating further opportunities with infrastructure services," said WorkCover Queensland business solutions general manager Trevor Barrenger.

Source: ZDNet

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