October 2008 - Ahead of the curve

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Are database admins keeping up with the database?

At IBM Corp.’s Information on Demand conference earlier this week, I had a conversation about the future of databases with Anant Jhingran , the company’s vice-president and chief technology officer for information management. During that conversation...

Published Fri, Oct 31 2008 1:10 PM by Kathleen Lau
Open Invention Network builds a future around open source

Meet Keith Bergelt, CEO of the Open Invention Network (OIN), a collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and seeks to build a vibrant ecosystem around Linux. Bergelt spoke to ComputerWorld Canada about open source’s future, the economic...

Published Fri, Oct 24 2008 4:10 PM by Kathleen Lau
Trusting the trusted data centre

In a recent conversation with Hewlett-Packard Co. ’s chief technology officer, Victor Garcia, I first heard the concept of “trusted cloud computing”. Coined by HP, the phrase characterizes what the company envisions as the next generation data centre...

Published Tue, Oct 21 2008 9:10 AM by Kathleen Lau
The Zen of Xen

I’m in the English countryside this week, where I’ve been hearing all about XenSource, the major Citrix acquisition and the company’s entrée into the brave new world of virtualization via the Zen of Xen. The market is an interesting one: it’s one of the...

Published Fri, Oct 17 2008 4:10 PM by Briony Smith
NUI: the new intuitive interaction

The degree to which technology is increasingly intertwined in people’s lives is such that science fiction movies are no longer so fictional. Science fiction movies from just a few decades ago depict technology so tightly integrated into everyday domestic...

Published Wed, Oct 15 2008 2:10 PM by Kathleen Lau
Search engine success doesn’t mean remaining static

The success of Google has proven that there is value in the search engine business, but only when it’s done right. In the search engine space, competitors to Google have been relegated to back seats, and yet new ones, like Cuil by some ex-Googlers, continue...

Published Wed, Oct 08 2008 5:10 PM by Kathleen Lau
Mashing up business intelligence

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Published Thu, Oct 02 2008 3:49 PM by Kathleen Lau
RFID use to increase in data centre

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is becoming more valuable to IT managers and their data centre operations, according to ABI Research. The Oyster Bay, Ny-based consultancy said that as IT assets become more important to enterprises, IT...

Published Thu, Oct 02 2008 12:10 PM by Rafael Ruffolo
Open Text launches Connectivity Secure Server

Open Text Corp. has released a new secure network access tool under its Hummingbird Connectivity Ltd. division. The Waterloo, Ont.-based enterprise content management (ECM) vendor said that Connectivity Secure Server will offer faster file transfers of...

Published Wed, Oct 01 2008 1:10 PM by Rafael Ruffolo

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October 2008 - Ahead of the curve

Are database admins keeping up with the database?

Open Invention Network builds a future around open source

Trusting the trusted data centre

The Zen of Xen

NUI: the new intuitive interaction

Search engine success doesn’t mean remaining static

Mashing up business intelligence

RFID use to increase in data centre

Open Text launches Connectivity Secure Server

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