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IBM researchers have demonstrated a new record of 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch in areal data density on low-cost linear magnetic particulate tape — a significant update to one of the computer industry's most resilient, reliable and affordable data storage technologies for Big Data.

Records and information managers seeking to improve the security and management of their data now have access to a new blueprint for successful information governance, a framework for organisations looking to define the roles, policies, processes and metrics required to properly manage the lifecycle of information, including creation, storage, access, and disposal. 

Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) and Microsoft (Thailand) Limited have  signed a memorandum of understanding that will provide 8 million students and 400,000 teachers across Thailand with access to Microsoft Office 365 for education. The agreement, which also includes the extension of the highly successful Partners in Learning initiative to 2019, represents the single biggest cloud service deployment for Microsoft in the education sector globally.

Digitalization, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning, but most CIOs do not feel prepared for this next era, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. The survey showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating the core of IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future. The survey found that 51 percent of CIOs are concerned that the digital torrent is coming faster than they can cope and 42 percent don't feel that they have the talent needed to face this future.  

Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning (DSDIP) has been named a winner of the 2014 Gartner Business Process Management Excellence Awards for the Asia Pacific region.  

Scytl Online Voting technology has been selected to support the extension of the iVote Online Voting system to all voters in the State of NSW for the upcoming General Election in 2015. At this time, only the visually impaired, disabled electors or electors who are outside NSW on Election Day or live a long way from a polling place can vote via the iVote system.

Far too often I have seen knowledge and information management projects fall short of achieving their full potential.

Recordkeeping is the process of making and maintaining complete, accurate and reliable evidence of business transactions, and government records are crucial to individuals seeking to establish their identities or ensure their entitlements to basic human rights. With their enormous capacity to store information quickly and cheaply over a timescale of years, the computerisation of the workplace should have made the task of recordkeeping within organisations easier. In fact, standards of recordkeeping in many organisations have declined over the 25 or so years since computers became common in the workplace. 

In organisations where the IT Department equates success for new ways of working with installing the software correctly, all the great stuff doesn't happen. Employees ignore the new capabilities and keep using current tools to get their work done in historical ways. Or they make a minimal effort to comply with the IT mandate to "use SharePoint," but do so only for the most mundane of work processes. Although the organization has at its disposal new capabilities that offer transformative possibilities, they are relegated to insignificance through lack of imagination.

Upwards of 1200 websites published by Australian Commonwealth Government agencies could be heading down the road of a Drupal-based shared Web platform beginning in September 2014, according to a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Government Content Management System – with the working title of GovCMS.