KAZ was founded in 1988 as ‘KAZ Computer Services’.
As the IT industry developed and expanded, so did KAZ.
In 1990 the first KAZ data centre was opened in Burwood, by 2000 KAZ was one of the largest operators of specialist IT data centres in the Asia Pacific region with five data centres throughout the region, a data centre capacity of 2,400 square metres, more than 150 storage racks, a disk capacity of 10 terabytes and over 60 client IT systems with some 20,000 remote users.
In 2000 KAZ was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and was offering 10 million shares at an issue price of $1.00. It had a market capitalisation of $80 million at the Offer Price.
In 2002 KAZ went into acquisition mode, it took on Aspect Computing and ventured into Hong Kong. KAZ and Aspect combined had, by this stage won three IBM partnership awards. Today, KAZ holds 11 IBM awards and numerous industry awards.
In 2004 KAZ acquired Iocore and was itself acquired by Telstra.
A new CEO was appointed in 2005.
In 2008 KAZ expanded its offerings and launched an initial set of three new solutions, Unified Communications, Virtualisation and Service Oriented Architecture.
In May 2009 KAZ was acquired by Fujitsu Australia Limited.