• Information glut costing Australia $3 billion a year: Survey

  Unstructured data coupled with IT outages could be costing the Australian economy up to $3 billion each year, according to storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).

• In an information economy: Information management must take center stage

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Lost programming skills

  Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a Drupal extension, create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and run DOOM on their car's GPS. But there's a lot that their predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

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  Sydney Water blows multiple IT project budgets

  The auditor-general, Peter Achterstraat, has flagged several IT project cost blowouts and delays at Sydney Water, including an overspend of $34.3 million on a customer management system. In the auditor-general's report to parliament 2009 volume seven, which focuses on Environment, Climate Change and Water organisations, Achterstraat identified Sydney Water’s Customer Management System Stage 1 had overshot its original $21 million budget and was now forecast to cost $55.3 million.

• UTS to review reporting systems

  The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is moving to provide greater access to information for staff, academics and students through a review and revamp of its reporting systems.

Whitepapers about information management

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  EMC 15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup Transform your future

  Backup and recovery has become fundamental part of business and an essential element of information management. Information is useless to customers, employees, or business partners can't access it when it is needed. Availability and integrity of information, of the lack of, can directly impact revenues and profits - as well as company reputations. Read more.

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance

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  Management Excellence: A Step-by-Step Strategy to Success

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  Customer Case Study: Yarra Valley Water Turns to Enterprise Software to Improve Information Flow