Wednesday, March 09, 2011
The new cloud tool kit Nomenclature aside, one question about this business model for IT departments remains: How will you manage it holistically?
Thursday, September 30, 2010
‘Set it and forget it’ desktop optimization Toronto data centre optimization firm Lanamark releases an update to its hosted capacity management suite
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Ottawa firm brings VM monitoring to end users Ahead of next week’s VMworld 2010 conference, Embotics has rolled out V-Commander 3.6, an updated version of its VM management software. The highlight includes a self-service function that will let individual business units keep tabs on the VMs that matter to them
Monday, July 19, 2010
Xiotech announces new array, management software Emprise 9000 array comes with thin provisioning, and scales from two to 12 controllers
Monday, June 21, 2010
NetApp improves storage efficiency offering The company is upgrading its SANscreen storage management system. It will now integrate with BMC's Atrium Configutation Management Database
Thursday, June 10, 2010
IT shops compete with public clouds, VMware says As public cloud services start to leak into select business units in your enterprise, IT managers need to think about control, said VMware. The company’s CEO Paul Maritz was in Toronto on Thursday to give customers a sneak peak into tomorrow’s cloud-driven data centres
Monday, November 16, 2009
Hard times aren't slowing down GM's new CIO Ralph Szygenda's successor talks about his position on Windows 7, the iPhone and cloud computing as he attempts to steer the IT course at one of the world's biggest automakers
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
How to gain green IT cred From facilities design to carbon management, here''s what you need to learn to become your company''s ''green'' go-to person 
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
EMC pushes enterprises toward private clouds Nina Hargus, vice-president of Global Services Marketing for EMC, discusses large-scale enterprise private cloud deployments and 30 new services and solutions added to EMC’s portfolio.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Symantec releases worldwide disaster recovery statistics More executives are involved in DR plans, virtualization still poses big challenges, and testing has a significant effect on customers and revenue, the survey says 
Monday, May 11, 2009
Finger-pointing inevitable without SOA management Speaking at an IBM Impact session on SOA management, Humana Inc.’s head of IT services outlines why proper management tools are the only way to avoid finger-pointing and confusion in today’s SOA environment
Monday, May 11, 2009
HP’s Green IT Action Plan hits the road Hewlett-Packard Co. is touring major Canadian cities to educate businesses on a Green IT Action Plan. Forrester Research’s Green IT Baseline calculator lets businesses measure that greenness. Why it’s easier for some companies than others to adopt a green IT strategy
Sunday, May 03, 2009
HP launches cloud-based BlackBerry printing, BES management Building on a long-standing strategic alliance with RIM, HP takes the wraps off two new BlackBerry-focused services. Read about what it’s offering before enterprises get their first look at this week’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium for BlackBerry Users in Orlando
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
AMD launches energy-efficient Shanghai Opteron EE processor Chip maker AMD Inc. is touting a focus on efficient performance rather than maximum performance with the release of its lowest-power chip to date, based on the Shanghai core. Analysts weigh in on the AMD-Intel rivalry
Sunday, March 22, 2009
5 myths of SaaS A surprising number of IT and business decision makers remain unclear about software-as-a-service. Here a five commonly held myths about SaaS
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Windows, Linux server face-off There's plenty of robust interest in deploying Windows, but Linux is still very key, says Gartner survey
Monday, February 02, 2009
Microsoft discontinues PerformancePoint Despite debuting a mere 18 months ago, Microsoft’s PerformancePoint is getting a failing grade and being folded into its popular SharePoint product. Read on for what customers get instead and how to run it in your organization
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Will Sun's Q-Layer deal end its cloudy days? Sun continued to bolster its newly created cloud computing business unit with its acquisition of Belgium-based Q-Layer. Find out if the cloud computing management and orchestration technology start-up will fit into the company’s plans
Monday, October 27, 2008
Is Dell changing its storage fabric tune? Dell’s plans for recently acquired EqualLogic remains unclear as the company acknowledges the rise of Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology
Monday, August 04, 2008
Manulife Financial joins server virtualization crowd The Toronto-based company expands an outsourcing agreement with IBM that’s designed to increase the utilization of its Intel and Unix machines. A former vendor-turned-CIO explains the scope
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Five steps to more energy-efficient storage Although many companies have already consolidated their storage and server environments, they could benefit further by consolidating their storage-area network environments
Monday, December 03, 2007
Sun to shine on Ops Centre in January Sun Microsystems will release a new data centre management application for Linux and Solaris environments next month, and a hypervisor to run under it in the second quarter
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Server apps prompt physical/virtual juggling act Toronto-based PlateSpin teams up with Virutal Iron to more efficiently manage workloads once virtualization technologies have been applied in the data centre. Get a handle on mixed environments
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Complex event processing: Still on the launch pad The CEP market will evolve swiftly over the next few years as open standards emerge, as open-source alternatives appear and as leading SOA, ESB, BI and EII vendors acquire the most promising pure-plays. The industry’s tipping point toward ubiquity is fast approaching.