SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud established in Canberra
19 April, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingSAP Australia has launched an SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service at the Canberra Data Centre specifically designed for use by government customers.
The end of gut-feel: why organisations should embrace a data-driven approach
01 April, 2016 by Alec Gardner, General Manager, Advanced Analytics, TeradataData, when collected, stored and analysed appropriately, can deliver insights that can improve decision-making, increase productivity and, ultimately, improve the bottom line.
National Blood Authority looks to cloud to stem blood wastage
02 March, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingAustralia's statutory agency for ensuring safe and secure blood donations has adopted an enterprise cloud platform from Nutanix to help stem $10 million worth of blood wastage per year.
Governments pushed to share public infrastructure
27 January, 2016 by David BraueGovernment agencies are ditching bespoke systems in favour of commercial offerings as commodity cloud and other infrastructure offerings become more trusted.
Security to be top reason govt agencies move to cloud
22 January, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingGartner expects that by 2018, security considerations will outweigh cost savings and agility as the primary factor motivating government agencies to adopt the public cloud.
BT secures cloud services contracts with EU
13 January, 2016BT has secured new contracts worth over €24 million to create one of the largest government clouds in Europe.
AEC to host public websites on AWS
16 December, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe AEC has contracted SMS Management & Technology to deliver AWS implementation for its public websites, in order to help the commission support major traffic spikes during election periods.
Counting the cost of cloud
14 December, 2015 by Ian Raper, Regional VP, Riverbed A/NZThere are three critical aspects to ensuring the federal government's 'cloud first' policy adoption does not see productivity being sacrificed for cost savings: visibility, optimisation and control.
TAFE SA moves online learning system to Azure
26 November, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingTAFE South Australia has worked with Microsoft to migrate its implementation of the Moodle online learning system to the Azure cloud to address high demand and stave off outages.
More state agencies adopt MS cloud suites
18 November, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingWestern Australia's Department of Sport and Recreation and NSW's Office of Environment and Heritage have completed migrations to Microsoft cloud services.
Government takes counting sheep to the next level
29 October, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe federal government has committed $490,000 towards an R&D project to apply cloud and big data technologies to sheep data management systems.
NSW enters major cloud agreement with Microsoft
23 October, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe NSW government has entered a major deal to allow all departments to access Microsoft cloud services including Office 365 and Skype.
Data centres look to cloud transformation as expansion cools
07 October, 2015 by David BraueIncreasing adoption of data centre as a service and specialised offerings such as cloud-based contact centres will drive growth in data centre sourcing even as investment in the local data centre sector cools in coming years, according to market watchers.
BT One Cloud video, One Cloud Microsoft and One Cloud Cisco
07 October, 2015BT has announced three cloud-based solutions that enable users to easily integrate collaboration tools and services from disparate technology platforms and different vendors.
Datacom takes over ICT support services for Health
21 July, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingNew Zealand's Datacom has taken responsibility for all ICT infrastructure and support services for the Australian Department of Health as part of its $242 million managed services contract.
