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  • Centrelink doles out AU$141 million to IBM

    IBM has secured a two-year, AU$141 million extension on its mainframe contract with Centrelink, boosting the term of the deal to six years with a total value of AU$401 million.

  • Centrelink cuts the wires on disaster buses

    Originally designed to service drought affected areas, Centrelink's Drought Buses are being used for all emergency conditions. ZDNet.com.au talks with Centrelink's acting national manager for IT service delivery, Matt Rodgers, about how tech keeps the agency on the road.

  • IBM wins $70m Medicare extension

    Medicare has awarded IBM a three-year, $70 million extension to its comprehensive technology outsourcing contract after announcing earlier this year that it would review all its information and communications contracts.

  • Centrelink blames UPS for datacentre outage

    Centrelink claims maintenance work on its backup power supply caused a datacentre outage last week the second such failure in as many years.

  • Mainframes: Time to rip the heart out of your business?

    The mainframes at the heart of some companies are decades old, but removing them is a massive ordeal which one HP exec likens to a heart transplant a necessary yet painful operation many companies are loath to undergo.

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  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Hockey's cybertrust lost in space

    If ever there's been a prelude to a government agency cutting ties with a red-faced service provider, Joe Hockey's veiled rant about Cybertrust was probably it.

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