Printers vendor Lexmark has extended its naming rights sponsorship of the Lexmark Indy 300 for a further three years, claiming that association with the Queensland event had increased the company's profile in the Asia Pacific region.

IT services provider, Datacom, has won a large managed IT services outsourcing contract with business conglomerate Norfolk Group in Australia and New Zealand.

Adelaide-based information security specialist Vectra Corporation has scored a major share of the Singapore public sector’s multi-million-dollar annual spend on information security services.

Communications hardware vendor, Netcomm (ASX:NTC) has been appointed by the national Golden Chain Motel Group as its preferred technology supplier for wireless hotspots.

Web hosting services provider, Hostworks (ASX:HWG), has signed a three-year $2 million contract to deliver online advertisements from more than 100 high traffic websites for an undisclosed client, described as a major company.

Enterprise mid-market applications vendor, Epicor Software Corporation, has sold its warehousing suite to WA retail pharmacy group, the Pharmacy 777 Group in a $1 million deal.

eLearning software developer HarvestRoad (ASX:HRD), Boeing Australia, and the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) have announced a collaboration to build an Australian capability for state-of-the-art repositories for technical documentation and training materials.

The Australian Department of Defence has deployed a Gigabit Ethernet solution from Nortel at its bases located throughout Australia as part of a countrywide network upgrade project.

Business intelligence vendor, Cognos, has won a deal with Suncorp to rationalise reporting tools and software license costs across the organisation.

Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a contract to implement an IT service management (ITSM) solution at Centrelink. The multi-million dollar deal, which uses HP’s OpenView platform and consulting and education services, is one of the largest Australian service desk implementations, according to HP.

Cisco is implementing a storage area networking (SAN) solution for Melbourne's Holmesglen Institute of Technical and Further Education (TAFE), which will see the college provide internal email addresses for up to 55,000 students.

Outoor sign imaging technology provider, Lumacom Limited (ASX:LUM), has entered into a heads of agreement worth US$3 million over three years with Turkish billboard advertising company Global Medya Pazarlama.

IT services player, Dimension Data Australia, has signed a heads of agreement to acquire the SecureData Group's business and its interest in SQL Services. The heads of agreement is subject to the completion of due diligence.