Enterprise IT news & views

• Attanasio takes NSW RMS CIO role

  Former Customs CIO Joe Attanasio takes up the equivalent role at NSW Roads and Maritime Services.

• Kundra reforms hit Queensland:
  State Govt pledges ‘cloud first’, IT dashboard

  The Queensland Government has committed to adopting two of the most radical measures implemented by then-US Government chief information officer Vivek Kundra in the Obama administration’s first term, as it grapples with a government-wide ICT Audit released last week that starkly demonstrates the potential for further disasters akin to the Queensland Health payroll catastrophe.

• Questions raised about Post IT transformation

  Australia Post has issued a statement staunchly defending the progress of its IT transformation program, Building Future Ready IT, as questions are being raised about some aspects of the project’s ability to meet its goals on time and while avoiding significant risks associated with any such corporate technology renewal effort.

• Qld Govt depts home to botnets

  Anew audit report coming out of Queensland has sharply criticised a number of major Queensland Government departments (including the IT Minister’s own Department of Science, Information Technology Innovation and the Arts, the Department of Transport and Main roads and the Treasury, as well as the Brisbane City Council) for having zero plans to deal with IT security issues. Surprise!

• 2,000 Qld IT staff to be outsourced, says union

  Some 2,000 Queensland Government IT staff are set to be outsourced in the wake of the state’s disastrous ICT Audit, according to one of the Government’s main unions.

• Unisys wins DIAC again in open tender

  Those of you with long memories will recall that the Federal Department of Immigration and Citizenship has contracted IT services giant Unisys to provide desktop support services to the department since 2007. Unisys this morning announced that it had won an open tender to retain the work through to at last mid-2018, at a value of $104.1 million.