Western Australia's Department of the Attorney-General has inked an AU$950k contract with services giant CSC for the provision of Cisco networking hardware.
Western Australia's Department of Education and Training has inked a five-year, $35 million deal with Optus subsidiary Alphawest to supply Cisco networking hardware to schools around the state.
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The local arm of mining machinery group Joy Global is close to completing a corporate telephony refresh, a move taking place in the context of a wider international push to consolidate the group's ICT resources.
The telco's bid to become an end-to-end telephony service provider remains on course, but how Optus combines its internal culture and identity with that of a debt-laden takeover target has emerged as a litmus test of its future.
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After years in the wilderness, the Australian IT industry is again booming as major industries invest heavily in their IT infrastructure. Find out which skills are most in demand and how much remuneration to expect.
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