Enterprise IT news & views

• Hacked? NSW Education in major outage

  The NSW Department of Education and Communities has confirmed it has suffered a major event in its IT operation this week that knocked key staff services such as email offline, with an an unverified source claiming it had been hacked and suffered the deletion of thousands of accounts.

• Future IT project fail?
  NSW Police gets COPS replacement funding

  If you’ve been following state government IT in Australia for as long as I have, it starts to get easier and easier to see major IT project failures before they even happen. And NSW Police just popped up a doozy.

• Is IBM retrenching 1,500 Aussie staff?

  If reports are to be believed, and they’re flooding in from both mainstream media outlets with claimed staff sources, as well as online staff message boards, the company could be in the process of making some 1,500 Australian staff redundant, which would probably be about 10 percent of its local workforce.

• 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.