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Centrelink issues $40m service tender28 Sep 2010Source: Delimiter Centrelink has kicked off a major technology purchasing initiative worth between $30 million and $40 million, as the national welfare agency continues its drive towards shifting its storage architecture towards being used as a service. “In summary, Centrelink is seeking to establish a panel for the provision of enterprise storage,” the agency said in tender documents issued last week. The welfare agency’s move comes as organisations around Australia are increasingly moving to procure technology goods and services through an on-demand model, which sees them pay only for what they use, rather than a bulk rate for a certain discrete amount of capacity. The shift has been associated with cloud computing — or various technologies 'as a service' — for example, storage as a service. In its documents, Centrelink said it wanted to put together a storage panel consisting of nine sub-panels — inferring that it would be able to purchase solutions from more than one provider. The welfare agency is looking for a variety of different types of storage solutions — ranging from hardware (including solid state and flash drives, fibre channel, SATA, DASD, SAS and tape-based systems), email and unstructured data archiving solutions, and a stack of other technologies. The agency has given storage players just one month to respond to its procurement initiative. Read more here |
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