Telstra-owned IT services arm, KAZ, has signed a $45 million contract over five years, to provide IT infrastructure services to ING Australia.

The ING win follows last week’s announcement that KAZ had signed a $200m IT Infrastructure Support Services contract with the Department of Defence.  

Mike Foster, CEO KAZ said, “I am delighted that ING Australia has appointed KAZ as their major provider of IT services, which includes delivery of all ING Australia’s Midrange management and data centre services. 

“KAZ has successfully managed ING Australia’s desktop and e-mail environment since 2002 and has a solid working relationship with them.  The IT services contract was awarded to KAZ due to our proven ability to reduce costs for the client and deliver on structured management and service improvements. 

“The signing of the five year contract with ING Australia further strengthens KAZ’s position in the financial services sector and is an endorsement of our ability to successfully deliver IT infrastructure to our financial services clients.  KAZ has an excellent working relationship with ING and we see this relationship only strengthening over the next five years,” Foster said.

The services under the new contract include, management of Midrange server infrastructure systems, storage, operating systems, middleware and database systems.  The environment is based on UNIX, Windows and MPE application servers, with the applications owned and managed by ING’s in-house team.