IDM September/October 2006

On The Records

IDM Speaks to the National President of the Records Management Association of Australasia (RMAA), Kemal Hasandedic

Cover Feature - Avoiding Disasters

IDM takes disaster recovery questions to the industry. The responses are enlightening.

QU Health Service Focuses On Patients Not Paperwork

A new electronic patient record management system pays for itself in a few months at the University of Queensland Health Service.

The Future of Healthcare is Here Now, But Not Quite

Despite years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars, Healthcare Nirvana still seems to be years down the track.

Metadata Flows Into Innovation For Australian Antarctic Division

David Braue explains how metadata has helped the AAD turn mountains of scientific data into invaluable new information.

A Viper In The Breast

With Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase and Open Source databases all fighting for the lucrative database market, IBM is staking a great deal on the roll-out of its DB2 9 Viper database and application set.

Industry Shake Out

Recent mergers and acquisitions in the storage and ECM markets have seen consolidation and refocusing of market strategies. IDM spoke to the industry to get a feeling of how end users would benefit

Content Management Made Simple

Freedom and control seem to be opposing ideas when it comes to open source software, however as the Australian Society for HIV Medicine found, the two could not be more closely intertwined...

The Cryptography Conundrum

Is encryption the final plug for mobile data security and digital communications? To encrypt or not to encrypt?

Touching The Void

Netapp's Mark Heers wonders why recovery is given less emhasis then recovery.

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