EDS virtualises its ANZ Unix server farms
EDS stands to save “hundreds of millions” by rolling out a massive 10,500-server rationalisation project for its clients in New Zealand and Australia.
EDS stands to save “hundreds of millions” by rolling out a massive 10,500-server rationalisation project for its clients in New Zealand and Australia.
Simpl New Zealand has appointed Graham Norton-Standen as chairman.
Fonterra has negotiated a four-year extension to its seven-year global IT infrastructure outsourcing contract with EDS, signed in 2003.
As part of its new multi-sourcing strategy, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a five-year information technology and telecommunications master agreement with EDS, valued at A$573 million (NZ$689 million). At the same time, Gen-i has lost some of the niche contracts it had with the bank, including managed mobile voice services, which have gone to Optus.
EDS has replaced former New Zealand managing director Rick Ellis with Steve Murray, a former EDS staffer who was most recently chief executive of Tainui Holdings. Murray has also worked for Ernst & Young and Ansett.
Kraft Foods is outsourcing its IT infrastructure — including datacentres, desktop and telco support — to Electronic Data Systems in a seven-year agreement that’s valued at US$1.7 billion.
A consortium headed by Deloitte is expected to win a multi-million-dollar contract at Inland Revenue to provide technology for the Government’s Kiwi Saver scheme. The other consortium partners are SAP and EDS.
EDS has agreed to pay £71.25 million (NZ$177 million) to the British government’s tax agency after trouble with an IT system that tracked tax credits.
EDS is entering the mid market desktop and mobile management arena under the auspices of the Agility Alliance announced early this year.
Multinational outsourcer EDS has retrenched 106 applications development staff from its Australian operation, however the company is vehemently denying the redundancies are payback for failed wage negotiations late last month.
A subcontract between the company that won the Department of Internal Affairs’ $35 million gaming machine monitoring contract and EDS has fallen over.
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