Case Study: North Melbourne Football Club achieves secure, cost-effective cloud IT with Interactive

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The North Melbourne Football Club, a professional Australian rules football team, faced the challenge of updating its aging, on-premise IT infrastructure to comply with the AFL's strict data security and disaster recovery standards. The club, with limited internal IT resources and budget, feared such a solution was beyond its reach. They engaged their sponsor, Interactive, to find a way to meet these obligations.

Interactive migrated the club's systems to a secure, cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution hosted in its Port Melbourne data centre. This provided enterprise-class security, 24/7 monitoring, and automated backups, ensuring AFL compliance. The migration was seamless, and the move to an operational expenditure model improved cash flow. Interactive's solution allowed the club's staff to focus on core business activities with the confidence that their IT was fully managed and secure.

North Melbourne Football Club

Cameron Vale

Chief Operating Officer