“ The largest move to the cloud in Australian Government history ”

will be completed at the end of 2018 thanks to ASG Group ’ s five year contract with Airservices Australia .

The positive project update is a result of the engagement with ASG Group as its IAAS partner to deliver its corporate information technology services as a managed service . It provides these services via Vault Cloud , a platform certified by the Australian Signals Directorate ( ASD ).

“ The first stage of the technology overhaul has been to migrate the support for all the technical infrastructure that runs the business side – email , the agency ’ s systems of record , the desktop environment etc to an ‘ as a service ’ model ,”

says Chris Seller , Airservices Australia ’ s chief information officer .

“ ASG Group was awarded this infrastructure as a service contract and partnered with an Australian cloud services company – Vault Cloud . The migration to Vault ’ s secure private cloud environment has occurred over the last six months resulting in one of the largest and most successful cloud migrations undertaken by an Australian Federal Government agency to date .”

The migration , which includes around 88 servers and 130 applications including SAP core ERP systems is largely complete , with all systems serving around 3500 staff relocated from Airservices ’ Canberra offices to both the Canberra Data Centre and the Vault Cloud platform .

ASG has demonstrated capability at managing large scale , mission critical and highly sensitive tasks for government customers , including providing Victoria ’ s Department of Justice & Regulation ( DJR ) with a secure platform for the cloud hosting of selected applications . By partnering with ASG , the move to cloud has delivered significant performance improvements for Airservices , and ASG ’ s Chief Operating Officer , Dean Langenbach , says , “ As we have proven in the past , and once again through our work with Airservices , ASG is the genuine alternative to Australia ’ s traditional Tier 1 providers .

“ We have brought to Airservices our trade mark commercial model , which has agility and flexibility at its core . And , with that , our proven capability in cloud transition and business transformation .”

“ We ’ re local , we have the expertise , and we are invested personally in every project . Our parent company NRI – one of the world ’ s largest business consultancy and technology solution firms – has made enormous financial and resources commitments to ASG ’ s mission . We are more enabled and ready than ever before .”

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE ORGANISATION FOR THE FUTURE

Along with its cloud migration , the transition to a managed services delivery model provides Airservices with a number of benefits , including improving service quality and availability , reducing overall information technology operating costs , enhanced information security and increasing service flexibility .

ASG ’ s five-year contract includes the delivery of a solution encompassing several key components :

• Cloud Services Provision of ASD certified cloud computing capability ( provided by Vault Systems ) with industry best practice security , redundancy , and failover capabilities . ASG ’ s cloud services will also deliver both public and private capability allowing for segregation of secure and protected workloads .

• Consumption of services ASG provides with a range of services on a consumption basis with monthly service costs based on Airservices ’ actual consumption of key services .

• Transformation A significant component of the journey to cloud capability is the transformation of ICT Services from on-premise to cloud , upgrade of end user computing , rationalisation of server infrastructure , and optimisation of the server and data layer for application performance improvement .

• Innovation and Continuous Improvement As a strategic partner , ASG has been engaged to assist Airservices to identify and execute initiatives to improve business efficiency and agility , while seeking to drive down operational costs . Supported by a jointly managed Innovation Fund , ASG and Airservices fund key initiatives across the business .

- Dean Langenbach , ASG COO