Department of Finance to deploy new cloud-based collaboration suite
The Department of Finance has selected Data#3 to deploy a cloud-based file sharing and community collaboration suite.
The Department of Finance has selected Data#3 to deploy a cloud-based file sharing and community collaboration suite.
Qualtrics, SRA Information Technology, and Axalon are among a host of new IT providers appointed to the Federal Government’s cloud services panel.
The Federal Government is edging closer to providing agencies with easier access to cloud services following the release today of a draft head agreement for a whole-of-government cloud panel.
The Federal Government has added four suppliers to its Data Centre Facilities Supplies Panel as part of its program to cut costs and increase the efficiency of its technology infrastructure.
In April 2008, the Australian government engaged Sir Peter Gershon to lead an independent review of its use and management of ICT. At the time, the government was spending $870 million per year on outsourced and insourced data centres.
The role of shared services can often be broken into two layers. The first is the infrastructure layer — the data centres, networks and desktop infrastructure, and some of the more basic generic services. The second is the complex applications that run across the first layer — services such as human resources, payroll, and some financial activities such as fleet management. Different governments have taken different approaches.