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Beating the backup blues at PFD Food Services

A move to the Amazon cloud for data backups is paying dividends for PFD Food Services, Australia’s largest privately owned fresh and frozen food distributor with $A1.5 billion turnover, 2,200 staff and over 65 sites across Australia.

Turnbull defends private email server

Following the revelations of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account in March this year, IDM contact a number of Australian and New Zealand government ministers to ask if they had similar habits. Many confirmed their strict use of government email services for official government business. Significantly, in light of revelations this week, then Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull was one who failed to respond.

Uni moving 6000 staff away from Google

Macquarie University is migrating staff email away from Gmail to Office 365, due to concerns about data sovereignty. The university plans for all staff email and calendars to be migrated to Office 365 by the end of this year.

Zombie financials threaten Victoria

The Victorian Auditor-General has found that state agencies are under increasing risk from using IT systems that are past or approaching their end-of-life.

Businesses need to manage expenses more effectively: survey

Although most Australian businesses understand the importance of monitoring and managing employee expenses and supplier invoices, they have not yet appreciated the value of automated systems, according to the 2015 Concur ANZ spend management index.

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