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Online child safety measures up for comment until 7 March
Members of the public have until 7 March to comment on the government's online child safety measures, which include faster takedown of social-media content.
[ + ]Victorian Government wants feedback on state ICT Strategy
The Victorian State government is accepting submissions on its ambitious ICT Strategy until February 10.
[ + ]The virtualised data centre of the future
The growth of virtual server and storage techniques in enterprise data centres requires a rethink of network topography and congestion management. Opinion.
[ + ]Defence re-signs Unisys for nationwide IT support services
Australia's Department of Defence has extended its services contract with Unisys in a two-year, $52m deal that will involve supporting over 100,000 devices.
[ + ]Re-evaluating government procurement
Government needs are changing, and technology itself is changing – so why aren't procurement practices changing too? Ovum's Kevin Noonan weighs the options.
[ + ]City of Boroondara boosts services with APC data centre infrastructure
IT staff at Melbourne's City of Boroondara have boosted data-centre reliability and scalability with an APC data centre solution.
[ + ]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.
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