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KAZ wins $45M five-year ING IT contract

IT Industry - Deals

Telstra subsidiary, KAZ, has signed a $45 million five-year contract to provide IT infrastructure services to ING Australia.

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.

KAZ CEO, Mike Foster, said: "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."