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• A fifth of SMBs not conducting information security audits

  Twenty one per cent of 1000 small business owners have never audited their organisation’s information security procedures according to the results of a survey published by Shred-it.

• 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.

• 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.

• IBM spends billions on information management

  Two years after pledging to spend US$1 billion on information management technologies, IBM says it has exceeded that total several times over.