Client: Strategic Marine (part of Triyards Holdings Limited)
Overview: Strategic Marine is a dynamic Western Australian-based shipbuilding company with an international outlook and an established reputation for producing quality, high performance commercial & governmental vessels for markets across the globe.
Since 2001, Strategic Marine has exported its shipbuilding experience and expertise by establishing three shipyards in Western Australia, Singapore and Vietnam which currently employ some 1,500 staff, of which over 200 of them were computer users.
The company has produced more than 460 quality craft, which include Oil & Gas Vessels, Maritime Security Vessels, Ports & Terminal Service Vessels, Passenger and Tourism Vessels as well recently entering the Offshore Wind Service Vessel market.
The company is expanding on its position as a leading global shipbuilder by consolidating and strengthening its position in the European wind farm vessel and workboat sectors of the market. This comes off the back of several successful recent new build contracts for the European market over the last two years.
Protocol IT have been managing all IT services for Strategic Marine since 2007.
Requirement: Strategic Marine approached Protocol IT to upgrade their network to allow seamless data and mail flow between countries.
Solution: To achieve this Protocol IT looked at all available options within the cloud environment, data centre storage and data replication between countries. The final design a mixed environment combining virtual servers and cloud email services.
Overview: Strategic Marine is a dynamic Western Australian-based shipbuilding company with an international outlook and an established reputation for producing quality, high performance commercial & governmental vessels for markets across the globe.
Since 2001, Strategic Marine has exported its shipbuilding experience and expertise by establishing three shipyards in Western Australia, Singapore and Vietnam which currently employ some 1,500 staff, of which over 200 of them were computer users.
The company has produced more than 460 quality craft, which include Oil & Gas Vessels, Maritime Security Vessels, Ports & Terminal Service Vessels, Passenger and Tourism Vessels as well recently entering the Offshore Wind Service Vessel market.
The company is expanding on its position as a leading global shipbuilder by consolidating and strengthening its position in the European wind farm vessel and workboat sectors of the market. This comes off the back of several successful recent new build contracts for the European market over the last two years.
Protocol IT have been managing all IT services for Strategic Marine since 2007.
Requirement: Strategic Marine approached Protocol IT to upgrade their network to allow seamless data and mail flow between countries.
Solution: To achieve this Protocol IT looked at all available options within the cloud environment, data centre storage and data replication between countries. The final design a mixed environment combining virtual servers and cloud email services.
Technologies used were:
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