Optus today has announced its new Managing Director of Optus Business, John Paitaridis. He will be leading the Optus enterprise, corporate and government business and is responsible for all aspects of the division’s sales, marketing, products, operations and service delivery including the wholly-owned subsidiary Alphawest and its Uecomm business.

The Tasmanian Department of Education has selected Symantec Endpoint Protection to secure 40,000 personal computers and 700 servers, replacing an older version of the Symantec system.

  Accommodation group Mantra has implemented a private cloud using VMware's FlexPod system on Cisco and NetApp hardware.  

Sports footwear and performance apparel company, ASICS, has successfully deployed a highly-integrated security, routing and switching solution in its Australian business running the Juniper Networks Junos operating system.

Optus subsidiary, Alphawest, has launched an enterprise collaboration practice based on Cisco Quad that combines its information management and unified communications (UC) capabilities and Optus' network capabilities to deliver "next generation collaboration solutions that help businesses transform the way they communicate, share information, and work together."

Document management software provider WindowLogic has hired four senior staff for its Sydney office.

Synergy Plus has appointed Garry Henley as its new chief executive officer. Acting CEO Peter Cappendell has been named chief operating officer.

Curtin University is one of a handful of organisations now beta testing Optus Business’ cloud based solution planned for public release later this year.

Web solutions provider, Websense, has signed a deal with Optus subsidiary, Alphawest, to deliver Websense hosted email and web security solutions as an on-demand service to its Australian customers.

Optus' IT services subsidiary, Alphawest, has got it hands on the first specimen in the Asia Pacific of Cisco's C-series rack mounted servers, a component of the Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco's push into the virtualised data centre market: