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• ATO boosts DXC deal to $1.5B

  ​The ATO has said it will boost its long-running centralised computing contract with DXC Technology to $1.47 billion as it eyes up incoming procurement changes.

• South Australia coughs up $394M for DXC Technology outsourcing deal

  DXC Technology will receive nearly $400 million for the multi-year end computing deal it struck with the SA Government earlier this year.

• ​CSC spending $5M on Adelaide office

  CSC is setting up an office in Adelaide, staffed by 400 people, on the back of an end user computing contract to provide and support for PCs, laptops and tablets at South Australian government agencies.

• The soured partner sale that landed a banking IT exec in jail

  ​As a former CBA exec gets jail time for allegedly taking kickbacks from former ServiceMesh CEO, the legal battle to lay the bribery scandal to rest continues.

• In pictures: CIO Forum 2016

  CIOs gathered at Sydney's Quay restaurant on September 6 for the thought leadership and networking event of the year, CIO Forum 2016, in association with EMC.

• NEC to establish Adelaide cyber security centre

  NEC Australia will spend $4.38 million to build a cyber security centre in Adelaide.
  

• ​HP Enterprise offloads its services business

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will merge its services division with CSC, in a deal worth around $8.5 billion to HPE shareholders.
  

• Sam Johnston named CSC CTO

  Former Equinix exec, Sam Johnston, is CSC’s new chief technology officer for Australian and New Zealand.
  

• CSC to split in two, spin off US public sector work

  IT services vendor Computer Sciences Corp. plans to separate its US$4.1 billion U.S. public sector business to form a new company, it said Tuesday.

• CSC pays $190M to settle 4-year-old accounting fraud case with SEC

  IT services company CSC will pay US$190 million to settle a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over four-year-old charges that it violated U.S. antifraud, reporting, and books-and-records laws. The company did not admit guilt, but has promised not to violate those laws in future.

• New England security group shares threat intelligence, strives to bolster region as cybersecurity mecca

  <em>The Advanced Cyber Security Center is a three year old organization with a bold mission to "bring together industry, university, and government organizations to address the most advanced cyber threats" and drive cybersecurity R&amp;D in the New England region. Network World editor in Chief John Dix attended their most recent meeting in Boston and later tracked down ACSC Executive Director Charlie Benway and ACSC Board Chair William Guenther (CEO and Founder of Mass Insight) for a deep dive on the organization's goals.</em>

• Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment in Denmark

  Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been sentenced by the Court of Frederiksberg in Denmark to three-and-a-half years in jail for hacking and serious vandalism.

• Updated: Defence deploying e-health system

  The Australian Defence Force (ADF) in December plans to complete the rollout of its e-health information system, which will be used by 2,300 health practitioners and support staff across the country.
  

• IT and the business still lost in translation

  For as long as I can remember, people have saying that IT needs to speak the same language as other areas of the business.

• CIO head-to-head: To own or not to own?

  We ask three CIOs if they still own, or are accountable for, IT governance when line of business functions are increasing their knowledge and use of technology services.