The Ministry of Education is outsourcing for the first time its identity and access management services as part of a five-year cloud-based contract with Gen-i in partnership with Infosys and Australian company Hyro.

The cloud service will provide secure access to potentially 32,000 users of applications and services at the ministry, the Tertiary Education Commission and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

The new service will be hosted in Gen-i’s datacentres, using its ReadyCloud service. Read more here…