Utility computing cutting across sectors

By Rob Forsyth* The change of government at the Commonwealth level will have no impact on the general move by the public sector toward greater acceptance of Cloud platforms to deliver citizen services. In fact, the new Coalition government will almost certainly accelerate this process. After several years of high-level policy development, the rubber is […]

Cloud and open data pushed in NSW government ICT Strategy update

By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales government has revealed the next step in its ambitious plan to improve service delivery to the public and business through better technology after it released its new ICT Strategy Implementation Plan that will bring in both a new open data policy and a new cloud policy to bring […]

Cloud shopping catalogue by November

By Julian Bajkowski The federal government has moved one step closer to allowing agencies to access cloud computing services after the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) issued an invitation to industry to sign up to a panel of suppliers. In a post to its official blog, AGIMO first assistant secretary agency services, John Sheridan, […]

SAP clouds up NSW agencies

By Paul Hemsley Cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions will be brought to NSW Trade & Investment following the selection of SAP Australia to deliver the services. SAP will give the department and its agencies a range of cloud solutions under the three-year, $14 million agreement. These solutions will include SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Payroll and cloud […]

Google’s cloud apps for LAPD dropped by City of Los Angeles

By Lilia Guan   The City of Los Angeles – California United States of America (USA) has amended its contract to migrate the Los Angeles Police Department employees to Google’s hosted email and office application service – the products could not meet stringent security requirements.   In October last year, the City of Los Angeles […]

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