ASG Group is bridging Amazon Web Services and VMware environments for NSW Trade & Investment – in a major win for Australian-developed technology Boomerang.
Boomerang is a bridging technology born out of Sydney developer Yuruware, which was purchased by US vendor Unitrends last year.
It is one component of ASG's broader engagement with NSW Trade & Investment. The hybrid cloud infrastructure project also includes disaster recovery, cloud and managed services and the closure of an internal data centre.
ASG also announced today it has been awarded contracts recently worth in excess of $10 million that use AWS.
The NSW Trade & Investment project is the “first of its kind” in the Australian public sector space, said Anna Liu, director advanced cloud R&D at Unitrends.
Unitrends Boomerang integrates VMware with AWS. Use cases include disaster recovery and backup, freeing up compute space on an on-premise ESXi host, and automated migration.
The NSW government agency will use Unitrends Boomerang to migrate disaster recovery and "cloudburst" workloads between VMware and AWS, Liu said.
Last year, Unitrends identified Sydney as a base for expansion in the Asia Pacific region and would be looking for more partners in the region.
ASG will also deliver an AWS platform for disaster recovery, development and test servers, a NSW government data centre for legacy disaster recovery, development and test servers, and a “fully inclusive” managed service up to operating system and database management.
ASG head of strategy Gerald Strautins said the win was “proof that Australian thinking and business models are getting it done in the new world of IT, as opposed to a lot of larger organisations who are struggling to make the transformation”.
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