Cenitex paid price for years of uncertainty
A three-year period of uncertainty for Victorian shared ICT agency Cenitex between 2011 and 2014 prevented it to make future plans, resulting in no investment in technology during the period.
A three-year period of uncertainty for Victorian shared ICT agency Cenitex between 2011 and 2014 prevented it to make future plans, resulting in no investment in technology during the period.
The Victorian government’s shared IT services provider Cenitex will deploy secure cloud services from Zscaler across more than 36,000 users situated in 450 offices across the state.
Victorian shared services provider Cenitex has unveiled a new offering based on Microsoft’s Azure that will allow state government agencies to host data classified at the Protected level in the cloud service.
Cenitex expects to complete by the end of the year its most ambitious technology overhaul since the Victorian government shared services agency was established in 2008.
After more than seven years in the role, Cenitex chief executive Michael Vanderheide has decided to leave the Victorian government IT shared services agency.
To say Victoria’s CenITex has a chequered history is putting it mildly. But although the government shared services organisation still has its critics, the organisation has fundamentally transformed itself over the last half decade according to CEO Michael Vanderheide.
There’s something to be said for starting from scratch rather than behaving like a MASH Unit patching wounded soldiers and sending them back into battle for more of the same, and for the Victorian government, it has a conflict injury in need of serious surgery.
Victorian shared services organisation CenITex will live on as an ICT provider, the government has revealed.
The Victorian government has allocated $6 million of its 2014-15 budget to outsourcing ICT infrastructure and services provided by CenITex.
The Victorian government has appointed Grantly Mailes chairman and sole director of the CenITex board as the agency transitions from an internal ICT provider to a broker of services.
The Victorian government has requested ICT services from the private sector to replace its internal provider CenITex.
CenITex, the Victorian government’s troubled ICT shared services agency, appears to be planning to shift from a provider to a broker of ICT services.
The Victorian Government’s shared services IT agency, CenITex has opted for global software provider, BMC for its operations monitoring and management platform.
Dimension Data and storage vendor NetApp have won a deal to provide storage, backup and recovery services to Victorian IT shared services agency CenITex, in what is being described as a private cloud computing deal.
CenITex, the Victorian Government’s shared ICT services agency, is looking to improve its organisational capability, processes and tools to facilitate information security management.