Tag: cloud

Cyber policy shakeup for govt cloud, networking

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Cloud and networking policies used to help secure the federal government’s vast IT estate will be consolidated as part of a new joined-up framework being developed by the Department...

Services Australia inks $226m data centre deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Services Australia will pay the largest provider of data centre services to the federal government almost $4 million per month over the next five years under a new hosting...

Defence brews up $16m mystery cloud platform

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has inked its biggest cloud deal with Amazon Web Services to build a new mystery platform on the American hyperscaler’s infrastructure. The department declined to say exactly what...

Australia’s Top Secret cloud and the battle for sovereignty

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s $2 billion Top Secret cloud is sorely needed by defence and intelligence agencies that have fallen years behind the private sector, allies and some adversaries. But the government’s...

DTA renews AWS mega-deal on eve of single-sourcing review

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has inked a fresh cloud sourcing arrangement with Amazon Web Services just weeks before all seven of its technology mega-deals are set to be reviewed. The...

DXC bags another $14.7m from healthcare price setter

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
DXC Technology has secured $14.7 million for another four years of work on a secure data management system it developed for the federal government’s price setter for public health...

Oracle clears hurdle for government cloud push

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Oracle has been cleared to host sensitive and whole-of-government data on its physically isolated cloud in Canberra, making it the only cloud player to have been certified twice under...

Cloud use matures but guardrails still missing

Posted on   |  by Munir Kotadia
The use of cloud is maturing, and Australian businesses are adopting a diverse range of cloud-based technologies. But too many companies are deploying new technology without setting guardrails, and...

Nansen.io collects Software Award for zero-trust cloud

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Canberra-based startup Nansen.io has won the Software Innovation gong at the InnovationAus 2024 Awards for Excellence for its zero-trust cloud storage solution assisting survivors of domestic violence.  The InnovationAus...