Private cloud services provider, OBT, has deployed a Melbourne node which it says will provide cloud services continuity, offering additional disaster recovery, high availability and failover services with the addition of the new point of presence in Melbourne.

The IQ Business Group (IQBG) IT consultancy is claiming another industry first for its solutions designed to improve the governance of superannuation trustee boards, with Local Government Super the first client to implement IQBG's trustee office solution, iqBoard, from its recently launched onshore cloud computing environment, iqCloud.

Highly publicised data security breaches serve as important reminders that data access governance must be an ongoing corporate imperative. Too often, however, the process of controlling access to vital information assets is inefficient, ineffective and lacks the agility to adapt easily to dynamic growth and change. According to a Gartner report on security and risk management lessonsi, data access decisions should be based on an assessment of the risks and benefits of a given level of data sharing, as well as an assessment of the process, people and technology that can securely enable that sharing. As a leader in identity and access management, Quest Software utilises a six-step process for guiding assessments and improving data access controls.