Oakton and Empired have won a multi-million contract to provide the world’s largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold Corporation, with cloud services. Oakton and Empired will provide a fully managed Oracle service to the mining company in a two-year contract. Empired will deliver cloud-based managed services for Barrick and provision disaster recovery services using its dual hosting facilities in Australia on the east and west coasts. The mining company will also use Empired’s FlexScale cloud solution for its financial accounting system in the Asia Pacific region. Oakton will take ownership of the technology solution and provide Oracle eBusiness suite services. “Our focus is clearly on delivering an exceptional service to Barrick and we trust through this we will demonstrate the significant value that Empired and Oakton can deliver,” Russell Baskerville, Empired managing director, said in a statement. “This contract vindicates the prudent investment decision by the company to develop its market leading cloud computing platform ‘FlexScale’.” Follow Stephanie McDonald on Twitter: @stephmcdonald0 Related content News ServiceNow continues workflow platform expansion with Utah release The company also doubles down on its customer success automation efforts, but bucks the trend by omitting GPT. By Peter Sayer Mar 22, 2023 7 mins CIO Build Automation Enterprise Architecture BrandPost Don’t buy into the hype of network observability to realize digital transformation success Just collect the right data and follow it to where it leads you. By Jeremy Rossbach, Chief Technical Evangelist, Broadcom Mar 22, 2023 3 mins Networking Feature How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation Marc Hale, CTO for AIA New Zealand, recently spoke with Cathy O’Sullivan, editor for CIO New Zealand, about navigating the complexities of digital transformation, and focusing on culture to enable healthier outcomes for customers. By CIO staff Mar 22, 2023 7 mins CTO Digital Transformation Change Management Feature 10 things CIOs wish they knew from the start Go slower. Network. Tell stories. Get training. Be kind. CIOs have plenty of advice they’d give to their younger selves if they could. By Martin Veitch Mar 22, 2023 7 mins CIO Careers IT Management 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