Westpac's chief security officer has told of his "battle" with outsourcing partner IBM over security governance after their outsourcing deal left in-house security under-resourced.
IBM and the US government are back in business after the lifting of a temporary suspension order which had banned IBM from being a part of new government contracts.
Welfare agency Centrelink has flagged plans to overhaul the way it procures a raft of ICT services, consolidating two separate panel contracts into one overarching deal with between 10 and 15 vendors.
ASG Group revealed today that it had signed a five-year $13 million contract with Qantas to provide application management services.
IBM has signed an eight year AU$57 million contract with ABB Australia and New Zealand to provide IT services and support.
Many CIOs talk of the "'closeness" of their relationship with their key strategic vendors. Every so often though we get an insight into which IT departments are truly valued by the big boys.
Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
How many vendors do you usually evaluate when trying to determine the best solution for a contract? Ten? Twenty? How about 100?
When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
When Telstra launched its IT transformation in 2005, then chief operations officer Greg Winn said "IT is the root of all evil in the telco industry".
Global services group EDS has signed a AU$58 million outsourcing agreement with the Victorian government to manage VicRoads' IT infrastructure for five years.
This is a selection of short interviews with executives from Salesforce.com, Intranet Dashboard, McAfee and IBM, which were conducted at the CeBIT exhibition in Sydney last week.
An international airline is turning to Linux, in a move touted to provide consolidation of distributed environments and cost savings.
The graphics chipmaker inked a manufacturing deal with Big Blue so it could avoid putting all of its graphics chips in one basket.
There's a multibillion-dollar company moving into the chip business: Microsoft.
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