Commonwealth Games Partners Collaborate to Design Web Site for Outsourced Hosting

Overview

The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation (M2006) needed a Web site to deliver schedules, venue and transport information, team and athlete profiles, photos, and up-to-the-minute news and results from 16 sports during the 12 days of the Games. As Official Technology Partner for the Games, Microsoft built and operated the Web site between 2005 and 2006. Working with local partners, Microsoft Services consultants at the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre constructed the site on a wide range of Microsoft software. Telstra hosted M2006's servers in one of its purpose-built datacenters to give it optimal security, performance, availability, and ease of management. Microsoft needed to take this hosting environment into account when designing the system.