Tag: Oracle

Canberra ignores locals to build its $5bn Big Tech fast lane

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
When the Digital Transformation Agency commissioned a review of its procurement arrangements with some of the federal government’s largest vendors last year, local tech companies hoped for a fair...

Govt review clears path for tech mega-deals to continue

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A series of massive deals negotiated with select tech giants remain a “vital” bargaining chip for the government, which it claims net $1.6 billion in savings for agencies over...

Defence inks Google deal for ‘air-gapped’ Secret cloud

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Google has signed a potentially lucrative deal to provide Australia’s military with a resilient, fully disconnected hyperscale cloud solution capable of operating through network outages. The multi-year agreement for...

OpenAI, under pressure to meet demand, widens scope of Stargate

Posted on   |  by Deepa Seetharaman and Echo Wang
At the White House this year, OpenAI outlined its lofty ‘Stargate’ infrastructure project that would cost half a trillion US dollars and be developed with partners including SoftBank and...

Tariffs could stymie Big Tech’s US data centre spending spree

Posted on   |  by Deborah Mary Sophia
US President Donald Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs could hamstring Big Tech’s billion-dollar efforts to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country, likely undermining a key goal of the administration,...

Cloud giants hold out on sovereignty as demand grows

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The world’s biggest cloud providers are the main roadblock to a flourishing sovereign cloud market, leading organisations to accept “neutered” clouds without the latest innovations. That’s according to Oracle’s...

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...

Oracle lands govt ERP deal in South Australia

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
US software giant Oracle has secured a major deal with the South Australian government to replace the legacy core financial management system that serves more than 50 agencies across...