Tag: AWS

Whole-of-govt tech mega-deals review gets underway

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has opened the consultation process for an independent review of its seven technology mega-deals, collectively worth more than a billion dollars each year. The review of...

Health re-ups with Salesforce for vaccine data

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Health department has signed up for another year of Salesforce to help manage its COVID-19 vaccine data, after tightening assurance controls to verify its technology suppliers’ data security...

Defence brews up $16m mystery cloud platform

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has inked its biggest cloud deal with Amazon Web Services to build a new mystery platform on the American hyperscaler’s infrastructure. The department declined to say exactly what...

Australia’s Top Secret cloud and the battle for sovereignty

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s $2 billion Top Secret cloud is sorely needed by defence and intelligence agencies that have fallen years behind the private sector, allies and some adversaries. But the government’s...

DTA renews AWS mega-deal on eve of single-sourcing review

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has inked a fresh cloud sourcing arrangement with Amazon Web Services just weeks before all seven of its technology mega-deals are set to be reviewed. The...

DXC bags another $14.7m from healthcare price setter

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
DXC Technology has secured $14.7 million for another four years of work on a secure data management system it developed for the federal government’s price setter for public health...

Govt urged to take the lead on micro-credentials

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Government support for industry-developed micro-credentials can reverse a decline in productivity growth and should be prioritised by government, according to one of the Parliament’s emerging leaders on technology and...

Gig Guide: Former CSIRO deputy chief scientist joins AWS

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The CSIRO’s former deputy chief scientist Dr Jill Freyne is now Amazon Web Services’ healthcare industry manager, her first private sector role since joining the national science agency 15...