Industry Insider

  • Records preserved for RMAA rebirth

    The Records Management Association of Australia (RMAA) has decided to retain the long-standing reference to “records” in its new title, after negative reaction to its announced decision to change its name to the Informational Management Professionals Australia.

  • 56% say “Fear of Change” prevents paperless push: survey

    Archive Systems, a US provider of document management services, has announced the results of a recent poll uncovering the key obstacle managers face when trying to implement paperless initiatives. Fear of changing to a paperless solution within the company was selected by 56% of respondents. 32% of respondents ran into the roadblock of gaining the necessary funding for the project.

  • File security gets personal

    IT professionals are using personal email accounts to mask file transfer activity from management, according to a study released by Ipswitch, a managed file transfer company.

  • Banking on SharePoint

    Australia's Commonwealth Bank is home to the modern corporate banker, with a SharePoint-powered intranet providing the power for staff to work with iPad in hand, updating a blog while simultaneously checking email and preparing a presentation for the first of many meetings that day.

     

  • Australian 2010 iAwards winners

    The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) announced the top technology innovators for the year at a gala dinner held in Melbourne to celebrate the 2010 iAwards.

  • DocAve helps put NSW on the map

    The NSW Land Property Management Authority (LPMA) is using AvePoint’s DocAve Storage Optimisation Suite to help deploy SharePoint to more than 1900 employees distributed among 90 locations throughout New South Wales.

  • Work choices are driving us down: Oracle

    Do you think crappy workplace practises cost your organisation money? If so, you will not be surprised by the results of a new survey from Oracle Research that found inefficient storage and working practices are costing UK companies up to £900 million a week.

  • QCMG taps SGI LiveArc for genome data challenge

    The Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics (QCMG) at the University of Queensland has selected SGI LiveArc storage solution to increase its ability to store, manage and process human cancer genome sequence data. This project will contribute to mapping the genetic changes that lead to cancer, providing better understanding of such cancers and potentially helping to combat the disease.