Tag: cloud

‘Gold standard’ under a cloud

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is unfortunate Federal Government processes for certifying and classifying outsourced cloud services for use by Government has become a matter of controversy. It is even more unfortunate to...

What Jane Halton did next: Vault

Posted on   |  by James Riley
As a career public servant, Jane Halton rose to become one of Australia’s most powerful Mandarins, spending more than a decade as Health secretary, before leaving government in 2016...

ASD puts a cloud over Azure

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate has placed an unusual caveat on the much-lauded ‘Protected’ security status it signed off for Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, publishing a special “Consumer Guide” for...

Big Tech data gets opened up

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government is looking to quickly sign a new bilateral agreement with the US that would allow local authorities with a warrant to directly access user data held...

MacGov doubles down on cloud

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Cloud has moved beyond proof of concept implementations in Australia to wide-ranging roll-outs across most departments and ministries. Current government policy, according to the DTA, requires agencies to consider...

TechOne reinvents itself in cloud

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Brisbane-based Technology One is Australia’s biggest home-grown software company with close to $200 million in annual revenues and more than a thousand employees. Next year the company will be...

Fast-growth tech needs consistency

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian wealth accounting platform innovator, Class Software, was pretty blessed when it was in startup mode. It had access to a client base of high net worth individuals who...

Telstra doubles up on new labs

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Telstra has opened a new R&D facility in Melbourne, and unveiled a joint venture with US transformation specialist Pivotal to build cloud software in Sydney. Australia’s largest telco made...