THE Australian Department of Health & Aged Care has partnered with Google Cloud to consolidate its data assets for greater regulatory compliance, and cost savings.
Following a competitive tendering process, the Department stated it selected Google Cloud based on its compliance and security credentials, including Certified Strategic Status for cloud services.
Platform-level implementation of zero-trust security and data sovereignty controls was another key reason, as well as the speed and scalability of its analytics capabilities, and Google's commitment to open standards.
The Department will initially migrate its Hadoop workloads to Google Cloud Platform before unifying data assets from a range of internal sources on a single repository managed by BigQuery.
"Consolidating the Department's data and analytics capabilities has the potential to generate substantial savings while further bolstering compliance and security across sensitive national healthcare data - both key themes for the Australian Government's long-term digital strategy," said Brian Senior, Director, Public Sector, Google Cloud ANZ.
"We're delighted the Health Department has selected Google Cloud to help govern and secure citizens' personal data against increasingly sophisticated threats, while also creating a more conducive environment for digital innovation and skills development within Australia's public sector," he added.
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