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The ten worst data disasters of 2013: Kroll
Brisbane-based data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack sees everything from waterlogged hard drives to lost movie masters. Here are 2013's worst data disasters.
[ + ]Boston accent: Massachusetts state CIO John Letchford
GTR speaks with Massachusetts state CIO John Letchford about adopting cloud and other progressive IT in a severely resource-constrained environment. [ + ]
Data-tokenisation gateway keeps Salesforce.com cloud data onshore
Australian government agencies concerned about cloud hosted data leaving the country, will find comfort in a software gateway that filters and tokenises it.
[ + ]Mixing paper with digital at Whanganui
A structured information management environment has helped improve document management at New Zealand's Whanganui District Council.
[ + ]Collaborative, public GIS maps chart WA's environmental changes
An Esri-supported GIS mapping initiative is giving the public access to detailed photographic and research data charting changes in sensitive WA ecosystems.
[ + ]Transport Safety Bureau picks BlackBerry for mobile direction
Australia's peak transport-safety body will invest in new BlackBerry smartphones as it revamps its mobile strategy and empowers field workers.
[ + ]Reinventing government customer service, the social way
Governments are steadily coming to grips with both the opportunities and challenges posed by social media in improving outreach to citizens and stakeholders
[ + ]NT government taps mainframe upgrade for core systems
Longtime mainframe user the Northern Territory government has committed to a contemporary IBM mainframe as the basis for its core database systems.
[ + ]Chief digital officers join CIOs in 20% of government agencies next year: Gartner
New chief digital officers will commonly join CIOs in the executive ranks at government agencies by 2014, Gartner research has forecasted.
[ + ]Noosa implementing hosted unified communications for 2014 separation
Queensland's Noosa Shire Council is implementing the Nexon Absolute hosted unified communications (UC) solution in the leadup to its 2014 separation.
[ + ]NSW Health preps cloud platform for e-business overhaul
NSW Health service-delivery arm HealthShare has invested heavily in Oracle middleware and cloud capabilities to support a major e-business refurb.
[ + ]Emergency services: On the move
Emergency services organisations are moving to embrace mobile information technologies that empower staff with critical and contextual information.
[ + ]Canberra facility builds Lockheed Martin's cyber security skills
Government contractor Lockheed Martin will build up its cybersecurity skills capability through a new cyber security centre opened this month in the ACT.
[ + ]Redland City Council overhauls ECM for data-driven service
Queensland's Redland City Council to implement Objective enterprise content management (ECM) system to consolidate data silos, tap into unstructured data.
[ + ]NEC training builds IT career path for young, indigenous NT residents
A NEC Australia training program will target talented indigenous students as part of its mission to train 50 NT apprentices as IT-industry staff by 2018.
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