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Protecting Australia’s Lifelines with Regional Data Centres
Government agencies in regional Australia are currently not using data centres; their infrastructure/servers are on site in their buildings. This leaves them at risk of outages and cyber-attacks, writes Aaron Little.
24 April 2024
Glen Payne – RITE Tech Solutions – Staff
Glen from Rite Tech praises the LEDC team for their personalized support. He notes that the staff didn't just treat him as a number but actively sat down to understand his pain points and provide tailored solutions, demonstrating a genuine interest in his business's success.
17 November 2025
Alex Broad – Pulse – Business Continuity
Alex Broad stresses that business continuity is essential, not optional. He explains how LEDC offers the right mix of security, availability, and geographic advantage, allowing Pulse to maintain low-latency access and operational resilience while keeping critical data securely off-site.
20 October 2025
Venessa Venuto – Vocus – Low Latency Solutions
Venessa Venuto discusses how LEDC enhances Vocus's ability to deliver high-quality, low-latency solutions across regional Australia. She highlights that for regional businesses, having a reliable local partner is key to keeping operations running smoothly.
6 October 2025
Glen Payne – RITE Tech Solutions – Local Advantage
Glen from Rite Tech explains the operational benefits of partnering with Leading Edge Data Centres in Newcastle. He highlights how having a local facility allows his team to attend sites faster, save money on travel, and get client systems back online sooner compared to the delays and expenses of driving to Sydney.
22 September 2025
Alex Broad – Pulse – Value
Alex Broad from Pulse breaks down the value of LEDC into technical performance, strategic confidence, and client benefits. He commends the smooth onboarding process and the supportive partnership, noting that the secure facility allows his team to focus more on innovation and less on infrastructure maintenance.
15 September 2025
Glen Payne – Rite TECH Solutions – Business Continuity
Glen from Rite Tech discusses the three key areas of business continuity: impact, recovery priority, and workarounds. He shares how partnering with LEDC addresses these concerns, giving him peace of mind knowing that his clients' systems can be restored quickly if they go offline.
1 September 2025
Orana Gardens – Data Centre Migration
Matt from Regional IT successful migration of Orana Gardens' IT infrastructure to the Dubbo data center. The move resulted in significant benefits, with the Orana Gardens reporting a 50% reduction in costs and a 200% improvement in service quality compared to their old on-premise setup.
18 August 2025
Alex Broad – Pulse – Game Changer
Alex Broad, CTO of Pulse, describes the partnership with LEDC as a "game changer." He explains how bringing enterprise-grade, low-latency infrastructure to the Hunter region supports their mission-critical systems, improving performance and ensuring business continuity for their clients
4 August 2025
Glen Payne – RITE Tech Solutions – Hacking
Glen from Rite Tech addresses the critical importance of business continuity amidst rising hacking attempts. He notes that having a local data center in Newcastle enables secure off-site backups, providing a safeguard against data breaches and ensuring client data remains protected.
27 July 2025
Mick Regan – City of Newcastle – Migration
Mick Regan from the City of Newcastle shares his experience migrating to Leading Edge Data Centres' Hunter facility. He describes the transition as exceptional and smooth, highlighting how the partnership has boosted their resilience, speed, and ability to innovate while keeping critical infrastructure local and enterprise-grade.
14 July 2025
Glen Payne – RITE Tech Solutions – Disaster Recovery
Glen from Rite Tech highlights the flexibility of Leading Edge Data Centres' infrastructure for disaster recovery. He explains how accessing the Newcastle facility and the broader regional network allows them to efficiently offload backups and rapidly spin up compute power for clients whenever needed.
30 June 2025
Venessa Venuto – Vocus – Disaster Recovery
Venessa Venuto emphasises the critical need for a solid business continuity plan in the face of growing cyber threats. She explains how Vocus and LEDC’s colocation and disaster recovery services provide regional businesses with the security and resilience they need to keep running when the unexpected happens.
23 June 2025
Alicia Lopez – City of Newcsatle – Business Continuity
Alicia Lopez, CIO of the City of Newcastle, discusses why business continuity is no longer optional in the face of increasing cyber threats and outages. She highlights how moving to Leading Edge Data Centres provided a seamless migration, improved reliability, and 24/7 performance, supporting Newcastle's status as a regional technology leader.
16 June 2025
Chris Earnshaw-Nees – Vocus – Business Continuity
Chris Earnshaw from Vocus explains why resilient infrastructure is essential for modern business operations. He details how LEDC provides vital regional options for disaster recovery and colocation, which not only solve connectivity issues but also help reduce carbon footprints by keeping data local.
2 June 2025
Alicia Lopez – City of Newcastle – Data Security
Alicia Lopez, CIO of the City of Newcastle, explains how partnering with Leading Edge Data Centres supports the council's digital transformation and "connected city" goals. By keeping data close to home in a secure, certified facility, they achieve lower latency, improved resilience, and reduced risk, all while strengthening the local digital ecosystem in the Hunter region.
5 May 2025
Vineesh Thadakamalla – Vocus – Expanding Critical Infrastructure
Vineesh Thadakamalla from Vocus discusses how the partnership with Leading Edge Data Centres allows them to expand critical infrastructure into regional areas. He highlights the importance of low latency and business continuity for government and healthcare sectors and praises LEDC for their support in customer migration.
21 April 2025
Mick Regan – Newcastle City Council – Challenges
Mick Regan from the City of Newcastle discusses the challenges of managing aging on-premise infrastructure, including risks related to resilience and disaster recovery. He explains how moving to LEDC's Hunter facility provided a secure, purpose-built environment that modernized their operations, offering peace of mind and ensuring critical services remain protected and compliant.
7 April 2025
Chris Earnshaw-Nees – Customer Satisfaction – Vocus
Check out the high level of customer satisfaction businesses experience when migrating to Leading Edge Data Centres. In this video, Chris Earnshaw discusses the professional support, robust infrastructure, and business continuity solutions that are helping build regional Australia's future
24 March 2025
Venessa Venuto – Vocus Low-Latency
Check out how the partnership between Vocus and Leading Edge Data Centres is empowering regional businesses. In this video, Venessa Venuto explains how combining Vocus's national network with LEDC's regional compute capabilities delivers the reliable, low-latency connectivity businesses need to operate and grow with confidence
10 March 2025
Neville Attwater from Narromine Shire Council
Neville Attwater from Narromine Shire Council explains how Leading Edge Data Centres helped mitigate their disaster recovery risks. By moving their infrastructure to the LEDC facility in Dubbo—just 40km away—the Council secured a world-class, geographically separate location that ensures safety while keeping equipment easily accessible for their IT team
24 February 2025
Chris Earnshaw Nees Vocus Latency
Check out how Vocus is partnering with Leading Edge Data Centres to solve latency issues across regional Australia. In this video, Chris Earnshaw explains how combining Vocus’s network solutions with LEDC’s resilient edge Data Centre capabilities is bridging the gap between metro and regional infrastructure to deliver better business continuity and connectivity
10 February 2025
Customer testimonial with Todd Newton from Apollo Engineering 2
Check out how Apollo Engineering have saved money, while solving their issues relating to working remotely, by migrating into one of our regional data centres.
3 February 2025
Customer testimonial with Mark Booth from TOIM
Check out how regional MSP Toim Technology has leveraged our network of data centres to expand their customer service offerings, while reducing customer support costs & time, increasing productivity & growing their own business as well....
20 November 2024
LEDC customer testimonial with Matt Jauja from RITA
Check out how Regional I.T. Australia has redefined the regional MSP offering, utilising the critical infrastructure across our data centre network and now providing metro quality services throughout regional Australia.
10 November 2024
LEDC customer testimonial with Alex Byrnes from Centacare NENW
Check out how Centacare NENW has satisfied its ISO27001 requirements by leveraging our regional data centre through their local I.T. provider.
3 November 2024
LEDC customer testimonial with Peter Dawson from Dawson’s Removal’s
Check out how we’ve delivered superior I.T. solutions & solved insurance problems for Dawson's Removals.
28 October 2024
LEDC customer testimonial with Tim Sykes from Orana Gardens
Check out how Orana Gardens has overcome their significant downtime problems by leveraging our regional data centre through their local I.T. provider.
22 October 2024
LEDC customer testimonial with David Errington at Apollo Engineering
Check out how we helped Apollo Engineering solve their cybersecurity vulnerabilities, providing them with peace of mind.
8 October 2024
LEDC customer testimonial with Chris Sheppeard from Centacare NENW
Check out how Centacare NENW has greatly improved it's I.T. operations by leveraging our regional data centre through their local MSP.
1 October 2024
NBN Coverage of the Mid North Coast DC Launch
Our Mid North Coast opening was covered by NBN News. It was great to have our customers sharing how they will be using the data center to better support their clients.
3 December 2022
LEDC Tamworth Meetup Event 2022
Watch this mashup video of Tamworth Meetup Event where our New England partners explored our data centre, guided by our CIO Tom Gayford.
2 November 2022
LEDC x Schneider Electric Partnership Video
Leading Edge Data Centres partners with Schneider Electric to bring metropolitan-quality connectivity to regional Australia with an edge data centre network.
30 August 2022
LEDC and Schneider Electric 2021 Wrap Up Video
2021 was a trying year for everyone. However, we wouldn't be in the position we are today, without the backing of quality partners like Schneider Electric.
22 December 2021
LEDC Dubbo Launch Event
Our Dubbo launch event held at our new Dubbo DC in December 2021 brought together customers and guests from across New South Wales.
13 December 2021
NBN News Coverage of the Tamworth DC Launch
Our Tamworth Data Centre opening event was featured on NBN News. Watch to see the ribbon cutting and a sneak peek inside the data centre.
11 November 2021
LEDC Tamworth Launch Event
This video shows why we chose Tamworth as our first regional data centre location and gives a tour of the facility inside the data centre we've created.
11 November 2021
The Road to Carbon Neutral
In this video, Chris Thorpe, CEO & Founder of Leading Edge Data Centres discusses how LEDC is incorporating sustainability into everything we do.
9 August 2021
LEDC Dubbo Construction Video
Dubbo's new Data Centre has been delivered on-site and construction is well underway. This new critical digital infrastructure will support the entire Orana region.
7 August 2021
EdgeTech Connect Newcastle Event
Insightful discussions, plenty of networking, and insightful presentations during yesterday's event in Newcastle made it a huge success!
28 May 2021
LEDC Newcastle Launch Video
LEDC is proud to share our official launch video for the opening of our Newcastle Data Centre. A huge milestone in Bridging the Digital Divide of Regional Australia.
7 April 2021
LEDC Features on Wagga Wagga Prime News
Businesses and communities in regional areas will have a greater choice to access a stable, reliable, and cost-effective network.
1 March 2021