Australian govt mulls ICT cuts

Australian federal government ICT services panels could be cut back from 87 to four, reports IT News.

Analysts claim it was sensible for government to rationalise and centralise its ICT services panel but warned that agency IT procurement staff may have to "watch their backs". It's estimated up to 1 000 staff could be affected.

ICT services account for about half of all federal government ICT contracts. Around 72% of all such contracts are worth less than the $80 000, which is under the threshold required for an open tender process.

ICT product and services provider Powerlan has secured a deal to deploy its infrastructure management solution for Vodafone Egypt, states Computer World.

Powerlan's telecom solution provider subsidiary Clarity will provide the support system to Vodafone, which will use it to automate finance, network and service management processes.

Vodafone Egypt has forecast significant productivity gains as a result of the move, and is planning to use it to help revamp its network vendor selection processes, according to the operator's CTO, Mohamed Henna.

Minkels has introduced the Varicontrol 1.0, a data centre monitoring system, says My News Desk.

This is a fully integrated, brand-independent data centre monitoring system, which uses sensors to measure, analyse and manage aspects including power consumption, temperature, air humidity, air flows, access and fire detection.

Minkels claims that many commercial data centres, corporate data centres and SME data centres throughout Europe currently lack a fully integrated monitoring system.