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• Australia suspected to have PRISM data: Ludlam

  Greens senator Scott Ludlam believes the US National Security Agency (NSA) has handed information it has collected from its PRISM system to the Australian government.

• PRISM revives data sovereignty arguments in Australia

  Revelations about surveillance activities by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US may fuel fears among Australian businesses about offshoring data, according to privacy advocates.

• Boeing backs metadata for information security

  Metadata – 'data about data' such as the non-image-related information stored when people snap a photo on a digital camera – should be used to label corporate information according to one US security specialist.

• Ease of navigation key to online success

  Before you take steps to improving your website’s search engine ranking, you should consider who the majority of your audience are and what search terms they are likely to be using, says Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability and a speaker at this month’s Webstock 08 conference in Wellington.

• Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008

  Which technologies must any good IT executive examine in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualization, mashups and social software.
  Gartner has identified the “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008”, and is urging IT executives to think about the risk of not implementing each one. If your competitor masters one of these technologies and you don't, will you be at a strategic disadvantage?

Whitepapers about metadata

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  Top 5 reasons why EMC for archiving

  Top 5 reasons why EMC for archiving This whitepaper provides the top five reasons why organisations looking for the best-of-breed archive software and protection storage for a true end-to-end archive solution. · Archiving inactive data from tier-1 storage is a key way to save big · Eliminate siloes for administration savings, while maximising overall storage efficiency, typically reducing archive and backup capacity required by 10-30x. · Archiving solution that allows you to add virtual and physical servers to meet new demands