Government organisations know effective digital records management is an important goal, but progress remains slow despite a wealth of technical standards and philosophical momentum. David Braue finds out why.
Email has become the lifeblood of business today, yet many enterprises still do not have adequate email management systems in place. Bjorn Englehardt, Asia Pacific regional director of email archiving specialists KVS, says that companies t...
There's still good money to be made selling high-end storage systems, but software is better. That is the simplified analysis of EMC's stunning turnaround from record losses to forward profit projections. By Gerard Knapp.
Last year, Gartner analyst Bob Passmore, addressing the crowd of attendees at the group's Planet Storage conference, declared the death of tape backup. "Tape will be unsuitable as a restore media" by 2008, he said, predicting that by then ...
Continuing IDM's look at some of Australia's foremost open source solution providers, Stuart Finlayson talks to Henry Okraglik, director of open source software developer HotMagna, on the company's rapid ascent to prominence.
Some pundits believe Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is just a warmed over version of technology that has been available for years. Here, James Rae argues that ECM is a blend of proven technologies with newer, innovative capabilities t...
Holes in the global infrastructure can cause severe leaks in the performance of systems, especially when those weak spots are so hard to find. Rodney Appleyard reports on a system that promises to improve business agility by identifying th...
The free trade agreement between Australia and the United States has stirred up its share of controversy in Australia, not least from the IT community. Here, Pia Smith, chairman of open source advocacy group Linux Australia, expresses her ...
Enterprises considering applying web services within their organisation to help safeguard their future ought to first learn from the past, writes Brad Kasell.
Speedscan has created a new alliance with Mobius Management Systems to offer new web-based archiving and retrieving capabilities to Australian companies that need to unite repositories, meet compliance requirements and automate business processes.
