Industry
Water utilities
Water corporations run infrastructure across remote sites with uptime obligations that do not bend, and an IT and OT boundary where most of the risk sits. Onel works with eight of Victoria’s water authorities, including Melbourne Water.
Clients
8 named
Melbourne Water · Gippsland Water
Panel member
MAV · DPC
+ Procure Australasia
Who you get
A principal consultant
Never a salesperson
Clients in this sector
- Melbourne Water
- Gippsland Water
- North East Water
- South Gippsland Water
- East Gippsland Water
- Southern Rural Water
- Central Highlands Water
- Coliban Water
What we hear
The problems that bring water utilities to us.
Not a list of what we sell. These are the conversations that actually start an engagement, in the words the people having them use.
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Infrastructure spread across sites nobody visits
Treatment plants, pump stations and depots, often hours from the nearest engineer, with connectivity that was never designed for what now runs over it.
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The IT and OT boundary is where the risk sits
Corporate systems and operational technology increasingly share a network. Segmentation between them is usually the thing nobody has revisited since it was built.
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Uptime obligations that do not bend
Water does not have a maintenance window that suits everybody. Availability is a regulatory position, not a service level.
How we address it
What that looks like in practice.
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Segmentation between corporate and operational networks
Port-level micro-segmentation so traffic between two machines on the same subnet is subject to policy rather than trusted by default.
Network Services
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Remote sites you can actually see
Central management and monitoring across every site, so a problem at a remote plant does not require a drive to diagnose.
Network Services
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Essential Eight and ISM alignment
Uplift against the frameworks water corporations are measured on, with the assessment evidence to go with it.
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Disaster recovery for systems that cannot stop
Replication and tested failover for platforms where the recovery objective is not negotiable.
Data Centre Solutions
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Platforms sized for growth, not guesswork
Compute and storage that scale independently, so capacity planning stops being a bet.
Managed Private Cloud
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Escalation that reaches an engineer
Third-level support from people who know your environment, not a queue.
“We have developed a strong relationship where we know Onel will provide the best advice and service. What makes Onel stand out is their ability to add value.”
Procurement
Already approved on the panels you buy through.
Onel holds current membership of the MAV, DPC and Procure Australasia panels. Tell us which one your procurement team uses and we will send the reference details.
MAV · DPC · Procure Australasia
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