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Western Australian, listed IT services company Empired has hired 100 new staff in Australia and New Zealand to service what it says is a raft of new managed services contracts valued at $65 million.

Australian-listed IT services company Empired has secured a five year contract worth up to $15 million to provide application and infrastructure managed services to Singapore-based independent oil and gas business InterOil.

Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) and computer emergency response team AusCERT have teamed up to provide the Research and Education (R&E) sector with an extended range of IT and network security support services.

National end-to-end IT services and cloud provider, Anittel, has secured a managed services contract with one of Australia’s largest industry super funds, CareSuper.

Global content delivery network services company Akamai Technologies has released two new managed security service offerings available as part of the company’s cloud security solutions.

Telstra has reached the next level in the global game of telecommunications, becoming a much stronger regional telco powerhouse with the full acquisition of Pacnet Ltd.

Western Australia-based listed IT services provider Empired has secured a contract with Toyota in Australia to provide Managed Services across the Microsoft Stack.

Avanade Australia’s Adam Wengert talks hybrid cloud, looking at Australian and global stats showing that hybrid cloud is reaching the tipping point.

Security vendor Webroot sees its channel-focused strategy as the way ahead in the Asia Pacific region.

Telstra has gobbled up telco services provider Pacnet, which provides connectivity, data centre and managed services to carriers, multinational corporations and governments in the Asia-Pacific.

Optus has sealed a seven-year managed-services deal with the Suncorp Group to manage the Queensland-based company’s ICT services.

Pioneering wireless Internet provider BigAir has grown bigger with the acquisition of all shares in Oriel Technologies, expected to complete by year’s end with Oriel to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. 

Sydney-based managed cloud services company UltraServe has signed up as a managed public cloud provider for Hybris Software – a SAP company – in a partnership which the company says will result in faster growth in both the global and Australian market.

Canon Australia is acquiring a majority stake in cloud and managed services provider Harbour IT.

Optus has signed a five-year deal Westpac to provide domestic mobile network and managed services and, for the first time, delivering the bank’s international services and contact centre transformation.

IT services consultancy company SMS Management & Technology has appointed Merlin Allen as Managing Director of its most recently launched new line of business, Managed Services.

Big Data Analytics consulting, training and managed services company Contexti has announced the appointment of Harpreet Sawhney as Chief Engineer.

GFI Software has added cloud management capabilities for Office 365 and Google Apps to its GFI MAX RemoteManagement solution, which it says will enable managed services providers (MSP) to take full advantage of the cloud services opportunity with their clients.

Queensland-based national Data Centre and Managed Network services provider iseek Communications has appointed a 20-year telecommunications industry veteran as its new Chief Operating Officer.

Australian IT and cloud services company, base2Services, has been named Australia's first and only Managed Services Provider Competency Company by Amazon Web Services.