EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

EDS has announced it has won another managed IT services deal in Canberra, this time with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).

Interestingly, DAFF's incumbent provider CSG never had the chance to bid for the deal after acquiring DAFF's last managed services contract from the now defunct Commander.

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | May 21, 2009

HP-owned EDS has notched up another Government scalp, winning a tender to provide $96 million worth of ICT services to the Federal Department of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry (DAFF).

By Staff writers | May 21, 2009

Swinburne University of Technology researchers have licensed to Samsung a technique to create 'five-dimensional' discs with storage capacities 2,000 times larger than DVDs.

By Brett Winterford | May 21, 2009

Storage vendor NetApp has shelled out US$1.5 billion for Data Domain, the American leader in data de-duplication technology.

By Staff writers | May 21, 2009

Aussie government CIOs will soon face increasing pressure to explain why in-house ICT services take so long and are so expensive to deploy compared to cloud-based services, Ovum has said.

By Staff Writers | May 21, 2009

A Texas federal jury has ordered Microsoft to pay Canadian software firm i4i Ltd US$200 million in damages for infringing a patent.

By Iain Thomson | May 21, 2009

Cisco has settled its outstanding court action brought by the Free Software Foundation over the unauthorised use of free software in its Linksys routers.

By Liz Tay | May 21, 2009

Forget clunky servers and disk arrays - cloud computing has emerged as the hot topic of EMC World this week.

By Staff Writers | May 21, 2009

Microsoft is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

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