Halton admits Finance will cede tech powers to Turnbull

Bets on for big shake-up of government technology in Budget.

9 March, 2015

NSW government plugs into cloud ERP

Software mega fauna as a service

12 February, 2015

Vendors float up to Turnbull’s G-Cloud

Di Data and Telstra spur-on highly secure local hosting.

24 November, 2014

Could Australia Post tech outsourcing be Telstra’s win?

Potential for government divestment to go full circle.

29 September, 2014

Fed’s single web system edges closer

Acquia clicked for open-standards govCMS build on Drupal using public cloud.

15 September, 2014

Queensland launches its ICT strategy into the cloud

The Campbell Newman government has expanded on its existing ICT Strategy to include a Cloud Computing Strategy which aims to relieve agencies of the burden of owning and operating of costly ICT assets.

29 May, 2014

Turnbull tries to untangle cloud regulatory hairball to help small businesses

The federal government is trying to pick apart the complex web of regulations encumbering small businesses attempting to adopt cloud computing and has issued another guide that it claims will give enterprises greater confidence in taking up the new platform.

22 May, 2014

Queensland state government jumps onto Microsoft’s cloud

The Campbell Newman government has entered a new deal with computer giant Microsoft to deliver cloud-based software to public sector offices.

10 April, 2014

NSW councils combine to muscle better value from VMware

By Julian Bajkowski Councils in New South Wales appear to have chalked-up a significant win in their battle to get better value from multinational technology providers after global cloud computing and virtualization provider VMware agreed to deal with 43 local governments as a group in contract renewal negotiations. The technology vendor said that it has […]

25 September, 2013

Finance launches investigation into ERP software costs

By Julian Bajkowski The Department of Finance has put some of the world’s biggest business software companies on notice that their lucrative contracts will soon be the subject to a sweeping review as the federal government seeks to extract better value from so-called enterprise resource management (ERP) systems. Just a week after the election of […]

17 September, 2013

NSW agencies covered by new cloud policy

By Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales government has added to a downpour of public sector cloud computing policy announcements in the past week, revealing the state’s departments and agencies will now be compelled to put the popular technology into the mix for assessment when making technology purchases. Announced by Minister for Finance and Services […]

3 September, 2013

Coalition promises “virtually all” government services to be online by 2017

By Julian Bajkowski The Coalition has officially launched its eGovernment  and Digital Economy policy for the election in a wide-ranging document that reaffirms a commitment centralised procurement of government computing combined with the development of a permanent and centralised digital identity credential for online transactions between the public and agencies. Released by Shadow Communications Minister […]

2 September, 2013

Canberra backs industry-led Cloud Code

By Julian Bajkowski The Rudd government’s new Minister Assisting for the Digital Economy, Senator Kate Lundy has publicly backed the creation of a new Cloud Consumer Protocol by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) for retail purchasers less than a week after formal guidance for government buyers was released by the Attorney General’s Department. Senator Lundy […]

16 July, 2013

Attorney General firmly spells out government cloud security policy

By Julian Bajkowski Federal Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus QC has drawn a firm line in the sand over how government buyers can adopt cloud computing solutions by stipulating a comprehensive set of security and risk assessments agencies must now adhere to before buying externally hosted computing and data storage capacity. The Attorney General late Friday released […]

8 July, 2013