Queensland Treasury

Needs

Queensland Treasury issued a tender to undertake detailed analysis of workloads and utilisation across their physical and virtual computing environments. A planned office relocation provided the ideal opportunity for an independent infrastructure review to investigate ways to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.

The State Government had implemented a policy that reframed how Government agencies invest in and manage their ICT infrastructure based upon the principle of contestability, where the Government provides the best possible service levels at competitive market rates. The business case for operating their own Data Centres was proving difficult to support because of the plethora of alternative cloud based services available at a fraction of the cost of delivering the service internally.

Outcomes

MOQdigital undertook exhaustive analysis and solution modelling to provide a detailed report that met the brief as defined by Queensland Treasury. The tender specified that MOQdigital address a number of specific issues to provide insights into existing utilisation and formulate a cloud strategy with business cases that justified “as-a-Service” options.

The assessment identified the following outcomes:

• MOQdigital’s independent review of infrastructure identified ways to massively reduce costs in specific operational processes
• Rapid scalability will help Queensland Treasury deal with seasonal peaks and harness added processing capacity on demand
• Auditing revealed that many functions can be delivered using lower cost public cloud without compromising security or operating flexibility
• Implement the tools that can provide transparent reporting on cloud resource metrics.