To assist agencies in moving 25% of their IT services to the public cloud by 2023, the NSW government has added another six suppliers to its cloud buying arrangements (CPA) list.
Invisibly joining the panel this week were AC3, Centorrino Technologies, Datacom, Ethan Group, NetApp, and Tesserent, increasing the total to 12.
The six new vendors follow Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, Macquarie Telcom, and Google Cloud, which were the first to be appointed in July 2020.
The panel was created in the middle of 2020 to make it simpler for agencies to use cloud services such as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and related cloud-based services.
It is being utilised to hasten the adoption of public cloud, with all agencies being required by the state’s cloud policy to use public cloud “for a minimum 25% of their ICT services” by 2023.
The goal of the government’s supplier-by-supplier expansion of providers in September 2021 was to include “additional deployment types such as community and private cloud.”
Following that strategy for the market, Google Cloud and the six new suppliers have joined the panel.
Around 17% of ICT services were being housed on the public cloud as of November 2021, leaving 8% to make the switch.
Approximately 70% of NSW government decision-makers anticipate this to rise to between 60% and 84 percent over time, according to an Ovum survey that was highlighted in the September 2021 market strategy.
Less than 5% of key IT infrastructure is anticipated to be established in the future outside of the public cloud, according to the government.
The government-facing division of Macquarie Telecom also announced its selection to the zone three colocation services panel for the protective security policy framework at the same time as the new CPA panellists.
Agencies will source private or public cloud services for hosting protected-level data using the special panel.