In light of another NHS trust being found to have broken the Data Protection Act (DPA), as a senior manager in the public sector, you may be concerned about how your body can avoid the same fate.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has revealed that Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust accidentally destroyed 10,000 records that were supposed to be archived.

Such documents should have been kept in a special storage area, but they were instead put in a disposal room and destroyed at the end of December 2010.

And while this would appear to be the opposite problem of losing personal details in the public realm, it still breaches the DPA because Continue Reading

Facebook's storage management could come under intense scrutiny, as the Data Protection Commissioner has launched an investigation into the website's handling of personal details.

Concerns have been raised about how much information the social networking site collates through functions such as the "Like" feature.

It is thought that Facebook – which has 800 million subscribers worldwide – can utilise this to track a person's movements on the internet.

Another issue that has been highlighted is the deleting of photographs, as some users Continue Reading

Unified storage is one way organisations can deploy efficient IT, as less capacity – and therefore potentially fewer servers – are needed to store data.

However, another route firms could also take is by using carbon reduction software.

According to ecoConnect CIC, this type of software can be easily and quickly deployed to a business's PCs, allowing it to monitor results.

"For instance, it can help you at a click of a button to be able to put PCs, desktops, laptops – whatever's on a network – to sleep when people step away from their desks," chief executive of the firm Robert Hokin explained.

He added this feature can reduce a person's power consumption by 15 per cent each day.

This can then result in financial savings for a company as energy expenses are reduced.

Mr Hokin also suggested companies recycle their old IT to help minimise their carbon footprint.