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Australia : MICROSOFT CORPORATION grants $10 MILLION to the AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
Publish Date : 26-Mar-2012
Microsoft Corporation Australia has granted $10 million to the Australian Red Cross. The grant will help the Red Cross to refurbish its aging IT fleet and modernize IT functions across the organization.
As per the grant, the Red Cross will execute Microsoft Corporation SharePoint, Lync, Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and 8, Office 2010/2013, System Center Suite, Visio & Project, SQL Server, Visual Studio and Windows Server.
“We’re really looking forward to the Microsoft Corporation Lync communications software functionality, so we can integrate what happens on the screen, the telephone, and on the internet, and can put timely information in front of our case workers and also back in our headquarters for the case worker advisors. We’re also looking forward to having computing power out in the field and in the offices,” said Red Cross director of IT, Warren Don.
Don said, “For the more remote offices we’re looking forward to a version of Windows and Office that works effectively on a tablet so we can provide those services anywhere and everywhere. The big challenge for us will be training and the migration of our unstructured information, Word, Excel, PowerPoint files, and photograph files which we have to migrate that from the current shared files into a proper SharePoint management solution. We’re building an industry standard data centre that is actually a Cloud concept but it’s an internal Cloud, so when the Cloud market matures further we’ll be positioned to move to it.”
