The Department of Finance has selected Victorian company Salsa Digital to operate GovCMS, the whole-of-government content management system. Finance went to tender in February for a service provider to continue to operate the GovCMS system.Under the new agreement, Salsa Digital – along with its subcontractor amaze.io – will provide software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service hosting with Amazon Web Services using the Drupal open source content management system. The Drupal-based GovCMS platform had been hosted by Acquia since 2015. The new hosting arrangements will be available for GovCMS customers before the end of 2018. The solution will be built on a full-stack open source and cloud-agnostic platforms, complimenting the open source GovCMS Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 distributions.The platform will provide the tools and environments for developing, testing, deploying, managing, supporting and hosting GovCMS sites, the department said. Finance will manage the migration of existing SaaS websites to the new platform and will work with agencies to migrate PaaS sites across once SaaS migrations are complete. The department said that GovCMS websites will operate in a fully containerised environment, which will reduce and simplify agency development efforts with the same setup and configuration across environments. All SaaS websites will be highly available with a guaranteed uptime of 99.9 per cent and have ‘self-healing’ capabilities. PaaS websites can elect for the higher availability option, the department said. “The new GovCMS integrates features such as containerisation, continuous integration and continuous delivery and bring the GovCMS SaaS and PaaS systems onto the same platform with a common development and deployment process. “Agencies will be able to leverage upstream enhancements, benefits from economies of scale and more automation. All sites, either SaaS (managed) by Finance) or PaaS (self-managed by agencies) will be hosted on a single platform but logically and securely isolated from each other,” the department said. The GovCMS platform is used by 77 government agencies and supports 223 live websites with 37 more in development. Follow CIO Australia on Twitter and Like us on Facebookhellip;Twitter: @CIO_Australia,Facebook: CIO Australia, or take part in the CIO conversation onLinkedIn: CIO Australia Follow Byron Connolly on Twitter:@ByronConnolly Related content news Zendesk to lay off another 8% of its staff, cites macroeconomic issues The new tranche of layoffs comes just six months after the company let go of 300 staffers and hired a new CEO in order to navigate its operations through macroeconomic distress. By Anirban Ghoshal Jun 01, 2023 3 mins CRM Systems IT Jobs feature 5 CxOs on leading change To be the agents of change that businesses require today, IT leaders must embrace a flexible mindset, prep their orgs for change, and recognize that intention and purpose are vital to empowering transformation. By Dan Roberts Jun 01, 2023 13 mins Digital Transformation Change Management IT Leadership feature Top 8 data engineer and data architect certifications Data engineers and data architects are in high demand. Here are the certifications that will give your career an edge. By Thor Olavsrud Jun 01, 2023 9 mins Certifications Big Data Data Mining news analysis L’IA nelle imprese italiane, a che punto siamo? Il 61% delle grandi aziende ha avviato progetti e il 34% è nella fase dell’implementazione. Le Pmi inseguono: per ora vince l’uso dell’IA embedded. Ma l’interesse è alto, come dimostra la curiosità suscita By Patrizia Licata May 31, 2023 6 mins Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe