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PCO Tender for THETA, eResearch Australasia, and QUESTnet conferences Proposals are invited from Professional Conference Organisers (PCOs) to organise the THETA, eResearch Australasia, and QUESTnet national conferences held from October 2012 – November 2014. Details are in the tender documents. Submissions close 10 February 2012. RDSI Vendor Panel RFP The Research Data Storage Infrastructure Project is a $50M federally funded project for which the University of Queensland is the lead agent. It is an initiative of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and is funded from the Education Investment fund under the Super Science (Future Industries) initiative. [more]http://www.rdsi.uq.edu.au/vepa CAUDIT Top 10 Issues for 2011 At the recent Autumn Members Meeting, members once again examined those issues which were keeping them awake at night. The results of the deliberations by IT Directors and CIO's was then analysed to create this years Top 10 list. 1. Mobility & Personal devices 2. Cloud Computing Issues 3. Funding & Resourcing 4. Data Storage & Management 5. Business [more]http://www.caudit.edu.au/download.php?doc_id=1158&site_id=43&file_ext=.pdf

Updated: 10 June 2011