Blacktown Workers Club Ltd.
Asia Pacific, Japan |
Non-Profit |
Midsize Business
Founded in 1955, the Blacktown Workers Club is a five-story
complex of cafes, sports facilities, function rooms, and a
revolving restaurant that collectively host 1.2 million visitors a year. The Club's administration manages all this with a minimal IT budget, only one full-time admin—and help from Symantec partner Nexus IT. Using Symantec solutions, the Club meets its nightly six-hour backup window, eliminates 97.5 percent of spam, and has suffered no disruptions from malware in the past five years.
Success Details
Organization Profile
Founded in 1955, Blacktown Workers Club (
www.workersclub.com.au) is a recreational, sporting, entertainment, and social center in Sydney, Australia. Run for the benefit of members, the main club boasts five floors of sporting and health facilities, four restaurants and a coffee shop,
multiple function rooms and auditoriums. There are two other facilities - a sporting complex at Blacktown and a smaller club at Parramatta The group has 240 employees and 55,000 members.
Platforms
- Applications: Microsoft Exchange Server;
gaming and cash register applications
- Databases: Microsoft SQL
- Servers: IBM System p6 running AIX; four
HP ProLiant ML370 and 350 G5 servers
running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and
Microsoft Windows NT
- Tape Library: Quantum Autoloader
