KAZ wins $3m services deal with health care group

Stan Beer
Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:53

IT Industry - Deals

KAZ, Telstra's ICT company, has won a $3 million, 3-year managed IT services contract to provide St John of God Health Care with server hosting and business service continuity for its operations in Victoria and Western Australia.

St John of God Health Care is Australia's third largest private hospital operator, with 11 hospitals - acute, rehabilitation and psychiatric - in Western Australia and Victoria.

The contract also involves hosting and managing the group's production facilities in Melbourne and Perth, with the long term objective of an automatic fail over from one site to the other in the event of any major outage.

Mike Foster, CEO of KAZ, said: 'The decision by St John of God Health Care to award the contract to KAZ endorses KAZ's strong capability to provide coast to coast service continuity, including infrastructure hosting and managed services.' 

'By combining KAZ's highly skilled people, state of the art processes, infrastructure and technology, with Telstra's strong networking capability, we have implemented a solution that ensures critical applications are available around the clock to St John of God Health Care,' Mr Foster said.

St John of God Health Care's Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr Michael Stanford, said the group would benefit from having the two high quality data centres, with comprehensive business service continuity and communication links. 'Just as in our clinical areas, continuous improvement is a critical factor in ensuring our information technology resources are safeguarded and operating at best practice.'