Tag: IBM

IBM’s whole of government deal doubles to $2bn

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
IBM’s government-wide sourcing deal has ballooned to more than $2 billion, double what it was slated to cost over five years in 2018, as negotiations begin on the next...

Cloud giants certified while others wait on sovereignty scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Google and IBM have been cleared by the Digital Transformation Agency as approved cloud service suppliers under Australia’s data sovereignty scheme while dozens of other companies wait on authorisation....

Big Blue: ServicesAus $50m private cloud server upgrade

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia will spend $50 million to upgrade its five-year-old private cloud server fleet to IBM Power midrange hardware for use across the agency. The upgrade comes through a...

Adobe lands $32 million myGov tech contract

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pay US multinational Adobe more than $30 million to provide “core technology components” to underpin the new version of myGov, with total contracts for the...

Audit finds conflicts of interest in IBM Defence work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
IBM representatives were present and involved in decisions at several meetings related to a major Defence information technology project which resulted in the company receiving contract amendments worth nearly...

Melbourne Health embraces IBM digital uplift

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
Melbourne Health is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers, responsible for the Royal Melbourne Hospital, NorthWestern Mental Health and the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. All up, these...

Outsourced tech contracts ‘defy common sense’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Handing lucrative IT contracts to multinational tech delivery firms “defies common sense” and undermines the capacity of the public sector to build technical capability, leading tax experts have told...