Technology giant Microsoft is working to accelerate the digital transformation of Western Australia’s Health Support Services organization through the deployment of its Office 365 software to 45,000 staff in 500 sites across the state.
The HSS serves as the WA health system’s shared services arm providing cyber security, storage and application support, central computing power and connectivity for all of WA Health.
The intent is to make Office 365, currently being piloted, available to all WA Health employees by the middle of next year – a transformation program that will see most workloads move from on premises data centres into the cloud.
“Our model for the future of compute and storage is going to be hybrid-cloud, with the majority probably in private cloud, and increasing over the coming years in managed public cloud services,” sai Holger Kaufmann, chief information officer at HSS for WA Health, in a Microsoft blog post regarding the announcement.
As part of the migration, the HSS has established a Security and Risk Management team to improve cybersecurity practices, which includes the creation of Digital Information Security program to bolster the cybersecurity…
