Brennan in managed services wins

IT integrator Brennan IT has entered into two separate agreements to provide outsourced telecommunications and managed IT services to Burns Philp and Australian Pipeline Trust (APT). The deals have a combined value of $1.65 million.

Under the three-year agreements, Brennan is providing food ingredients distributor, Burns Philp and APT with onsite and remote IT support which includes a service desk and on going proactive maintenance and monitoring of their IT infrastructure.

Matthew Lovegrove (pictured), general manager, sales and marketing at Brennan IT said the company was seeing a move by SMBs towards managed services as a way to reduce the cost and complexity of maintaining infrastructure.

“Brennan IT has become the IT department for these two companies,” he said.

“We will also provide Burns Philp with managed, secured Internet access, hosting and telecommunication products and APT with a national private IP WAN that includes a network based Internet firewall, spam filtering and anti-virus protection”.

The WAN now links APT’s offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth and will also include three offsite servers hosted by Brennan IT in its data centre, said Lovegrove.