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The article discusses plans of the Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads to ditch its International Business Machines (IBM) Notes databases. Topics discussed include partners sought by the department to migrate away from IBM Notes, active documents on the platform and support for operational service delivery state-wide for its customer service and personal transport business areas.

Do you know where your applications are? Probably not, according to Fujitsu's Chris Gaskin. At least, not all of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yelp will use flash memory to speed up its database of community reviews of restaurants and other local businesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Auditor-General Doctor Maxine Cooper's security audit has found that some ACT government agencies could be vulnerable due to weak passwords, shared accounts and lack of audit log reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Your wrap of the top Australian ICT stories this week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the world of IT few things conjure up an image of monolithic permanence more than the data centre. Row after row of rigid, reliable IT powering the flow of commerce and industry around the globe day and night. Rain, hail or snow. Year after year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) will brief the industry on the progress of its Data Centre Strategy implementation in a bid to improve awareness and provide an update on the plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current rash of locally owned and operated data centres under construction may be just what the doctor ordered to address ongoing concerns over the health of public clouds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National Australia Bank (NAB) is laying claim to the title of first organisation in the country to use tri-generation (trigen) power in its data centre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australian Data Centres (ADC) will open up a 3000 square metre Tier 3 facility in Mitchell, Canberra, by the third quarter of 2010. The new facility will comprise at least a $100 million investment with ADC targeting the Federal Government's whole of government data centre strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explosive business growth has caught up with Open Universities Australia which has used a combination of blade servers, water cooling and virtualisation to save its in-house data centre and a million dollar outsourcing contract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An agricultural research group is encouraging Australian grain farmers to join a National Farming Practices Database, an online central repository which includes detailed growing reports and productivity updates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is deploying what may be the first national e-health records management system to unify disparate medical databases across its four regional sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Macmahon Holdings, an Australian company operating in the mining and civil construction sector, has recently completed the rebuild of its entire data centre. By virtualizing the user desktop, the company has created a data network infrastructure which allows users to access the system securely from anywhere, at any time, and from any hardware device. Macmahon Holdings, an Australian company operating in the mining and civil construction sector, has recently completed the rebuild of its entire data centre. By virtualizing the user desktop, the company has created a data network infrastructure which allows users to access the system securely from anywhere, at any time, and from any hardware device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As one of the early employees at global open source database company MySQL AB, Arjen Lentz has moved on and started Open Query to bring open source database training to the masses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that up to 1,000 Salesforce.com customers in Australia fear their corporate data is in the hands of hackers after the company was targetted by a phishing scam and one of the vendor's employees was tricked into divulging a corporate password. Salesforce.com urged customers on its Web site to activate Internet Protocol restrictions to their customer relationship management databases and educate users on avoiding phishing scams.

After relying on manual non-relational databases with fixed configurations for warranty claims and for access to management reporting, heating and appliance manufacturer Rinnai Australia searched for a better solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that Australia's Department of Defence uses MySQL over commercial offerings and relational database system for a large-scale application. Open source databases have progressed from running Web-tier and other edge applications to central business and transaction processing systems. MoneySwitch has also developed a transaction processing system with MySQL as the database.