Tag: Azure

$1bn in a month: Govt’s Microsoft bill skyrockets

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Federal agencies have signed more than $1 billion in new contracts for Microsoft software licences and cloud services in the past 30 days as sweeping multi-year government subscriptions are...

Microsoft enters Australian space race

Posted on   |  by Ben Grubb
Microsoft Australia’s Lynn McDonald is on a mission to help the local space industry take off and “break the mould”, with an aim to have Microsoft as one of...

Bumpy ride for the Security Manual

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government document that rides herd over Federal agency cyber security has been on a wild ride this year. The normally staid process of updating what is known as...

ASD brawl over Microsoft

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate executive at the centre of an internal brawl over Microsoft’s Azure and Office365 cloud services being granted Protected Certification has quietly departed the intelligence agency....

ASD process a shocker for SMEs

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate is already taking heavy fire for a perception that Microsoft was not required to meet the same stringent security criteria as its local cloud services...