Sussex County has been given a grant of $511,700 from New Jersey Public Archives and Records Infrastructure Support program, PARIS. The money will be used to maintain current record archiving programs as well as studying county plans for disaster recovery. The grant is less than half of the one million requested by the county.

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Iron Mountain has issued their 2nd quarter earnings showing a 3% gain in revenue over the same period last year. Much of the gain was attributed to recent acquisitions. The storage giant also raised their third quarter earnings forecast to $115 million from $108 million.

It is good news for the record storage industry but will it breath some life into the companies sluggish stock price.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued best practice guidelines for protecting government information and preventing data breaches. The report was developed with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Although their is the standard amount of government boilerplate it does contain some good suggestions for information management.

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