The New Zealand Technology Industry Association (NZTech) and Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT)have teamed up to create Shadow IT, a programme aimed at exposing school-age women to the benefits of the a career in IT.
The Office Productivity as a Service (OPaaS) will initially involve the supply of email and calendar services, including archiving and data loss prevention, to government agencies.
Microsoft NZ honoured its channel community at the 2013 Partner Awards that took place last evening in Auckland's Langham Hotel. A total of 22 awards were given out across four main categories including Cloud, Competency, Individual and Segment. Partners with strong Cloud solutions and projects dominated the event, including SoftSource, which picked up three awards, and Gen-i and IT Engine, which collected two awards each.Speaking at the event, Paul Muckleston, MD of Microsoft NZ, promised two Azure data centres in Australia soon for partners to tap into and provide computing power to their customers.
Datacom has extended its Hamilton located Kapua data centre with two new data floors providing an additional 376 rack spaces.
A panel of 21 service providers has been chosen to help government agencies manage privacy and security issues.
Contracts for a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) have been awarded to New Zealand company Datacom, and global suppliers Dimension Data and Fujitsu. These companies will take on management of government agencies’ desktop computer operating system and software applications.
New Zealand headquartered IT firm Datacom Group has reported net profits before tax of $50.9 million for the year ending 31 March 2013, a rise of 26 per cent over last year’s $40.4 million. Net profit after tax touched $36 million.
Datacom has been chosen as the preferred vendor to supply infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to Inland Revenue.
New Zealand-headquartered IT services provider, Datacom, has extended its relationship with the Queensland Government through a new, three-year contract.
The Novopay saga began in 2005 when Australian human resources and outsourcing provider Talent2 outbid 10 other potential providers to win a deal to replace the Ministry of Education's payroll system.
Information technology services firm Datacom has reported another year of strong growth, with revenues up 9 per cent to $788 million and staff numbers up 13 per cent to more than 4000.
Datacom has begun rolling out a unified IT infrastructure service solution across Australia and New Zealand for construction giant Fulton Hogan, following the signing of a three-year contract.
The Department of Internal Affairs has confirmed IBM as the third member of the government’s Infrastructure as a Service supplier panel.
I recently had the good fortune to sit beside two strangers at an industry function and enjoy one of those conversations that go in unexpected, but interesting, directions. We got onto the topic of New Zealand’s flag, which we agreed needs changing.
Fujitsu, Datacom and Gen-i have been appointed to a panel to provide IT managed services for government agencies and the first to take up a contract under the arrangement is the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).