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    • Microsoft criticises AG Dept’s cloud rules microsoft1

      Global technology giant Microsoft has asked the Federal Government to review a controversial policy enacted by the Attorney-General’s Department last year which which require departments and agencies to explicitly acquire the approval of the Attorney-General and the relevant portfolio minister before government data containing private information can be stored in offshore facilities.

    • NSW Trade + Investment wants to go full cloud Sydney Opera House From the Sea

      The NSW Department of Trade and Investment has signalled plans to continue shifting more of its IT assets to cloud computing platforms as part of a “journey” away from managing and owning its own infrastructure, in the wake of the successful deployment of a wide-ranging ERP platform based on a SAP software as a service solution.

    • Madness? Govt considers ERP shared services scheme that failed states Three Wise Business Monkeys

      The Federal Government has started discussing the possibility of setting up a shared services function that would provide centralised Enterprise Resource Planning services to various departments and agencies, despite the fact that this very same model has abjectly failed several Australian State Governments over the past half-decade and been abandoned.

    • News Corp Australia dumps Exchange for Gmail news-box

      The new chief technology officer of publishing giant News Corp Australia has wasted no time making big changes to the organisation’s IT infrastructure model, announcing a huge formal move to Google’s mail and calendaring suite just months after taking on the position.

    • Huge Chrome OS success for Fire + Rescue NSW chromebox

      Those among you with longish memories will recall the slight hullaballoo which emergency services agency Fire and Rescue NSW caused in November 2012 when it revealed it had dumped plans to deploy new traditional PCs throughout its operations in New South Wales, opting instead for a widespread deployment of 400 units of Google’s Chromebox cloud-based desktop platform. Well, according to to the group’s IT director Richard Host, the rollout has been a huge success.

    • Cloud: It’s about opportunities, not obstacles flowersclouds2

      One of the key messages that is coming out of the cloud computing camp at the moment is the concept that those who are thinking about this new paradigm of IT infrastructure purely through the lens of the old are missing out on the opportunities that it offers. A good piece on the issue comes from Rackspace Asia-Pacific chief technology officer Alan Perkins, formerly an influential chief information officer who had been an early cloud pioneer in Australia.

    • Loft Group deploys on IBM SoftLayer cloud ibmlogo

      IBM’s June 2013 acquisition of cloud computing company SoftLayer has started to pay off for Big Blue in Australia, with the company announcing last week that local creative digital agency The Loft Group had deployed its e-learning business platform on its Infrastructure as a Service infrastructure.

    • Up to $50m more for Fiona Stanley hospital IT doctor

      The Western Australian State Government has been forced to admit that the IT systems associated with the new Fiona Stanley Hospital being built in the state had blown out in cost by an amount expected to be between $25 million and $50 million, as delays continue to affect the opening of the new flagship facility.

    • Future of PCEHR review still unclear: Will it be released? questions

      The Department of Health has confirmed that it now has a copy of the review of the Federal Government’s troubled Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records project, although it still cannot confirm whether the document, which will be key to the development of e-health systems in Australia, will be released publicly.

    • Bloodbath: Qantas to cut $200m in IT costs, jobs qantas

      Embattled airline Qantas has flagged plans to cut $200 million out of its technology budget over the next three years and undertake reviews of its major technology supplier contracts, as part of a company-wide cost-cutting initiative that will see a total 5,000 staff leave the company and some $2 billion in total costs cut.