Thursday, June 18, 2009
IBM and Rogers sign 7-year deal IBM will provide IT services and support, Rogers anticipates data centre upgrades, but customers are unlikely to notice any difference for at least 12 to 36 months
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
VMware Canada chief pushes internal cloud The virtualization giant says its most sophisticated customers are already rolling out internal clouds to power their apps, but some industry observers aren’t seeing the same kind of traction
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Satyam tries to reassure customers, investors Three former officials are arrested and the Indian government replaced the company’s board of directors. A Forrester analyst speculates on the company’s future
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Hard facts about software-as-a- service Six execs share lessons learned from their SaaS projects 
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Canadian War Museum wins digitization battle Taking 100-year-old archival material and uploading it onto the Web is no easy task. Explore the Web development secrets behind the Canadian museum's newest educational site.
Monday, May 26, 2008
T.O. loan provider outsources IT amid expansion GMAC Residential Funding of Canada Ltd.'s IT infrastructure supports more than 800 external brokers and more than 350 internal employees across different time zones. As business ramps up, data centre chores move out
Thursday, May 01, 2008
The IT manager as pack rat: e-discovery advice What a lawyer thinks is important may not be relevant to a technology professional, according to a panelist at a discussion on legal issues. How to avoid trouble if your company gets sued
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Maintenance made manageable: A guide to SLAs All technology infrastructure requires some careful fine-tuning from time to time, and IT managers can't always do it alone. Whether you deal with the original equipment maker or a third party, read the fine print 
Thursday, January 17, 2008
IBM acquires Net Integration Technologies SMB server software firm gets bought up by Big Blue
Monday, July 30, 2007
Telus offers service to secure e-mail A partnership with Toronto's Echoworx will allow the incumbent's customers to outsource the encryption and delivery of corporate messages. A physician-owned lab explains why it became an early adopter
Monday, April 30, 2007
Palm to debut new Linux-based OS on Treos Palm recently announced that some of its Treos will come equipped with a new Linux-based Palm OS by the end of the year, making them the first mainstream North American devices to have an OS based on the Linux kernel. 
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
SOA skills shortage stalling promise of new era A critical skills shortage is holding back the widespread use of service oriented architectures (SOA) and the promise of a new era of interoperability, according Tony Clement, the Australian Wheat Board's (AWB) enterprise architecture and planning manager. 
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Middle East market research firm takes a second look at Linux The Pan Arab Research Centre's existing Linux infrastructure was crumbling, but the Middle Eastern market research firm didn't give up on the technology. Read on to learn why this company stood by the open-source operating system.
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Printing returns to its Roots Two years ago Toronto-based clothing maker Roots Canada Ltd. was faced with a choice: continue outsourcing some of its advertising printing or get a new printer to replace the dinosaur device it had in-house. 
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Risks and rewards from offshore outsourcing While outsourcing IT services to an offshore firm may have seemed a radical concept a
decade ago, it's now becoming a fairly common practice among many large- and medium-sized
Canadian IT shops.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Tips on better insourcing 
Thursday, June 26, 2003
German enterprises remain cautious about outsourcing Even though Deutsche Bank AG decided last year to outsource its IT operations to IBM Corp., German enterprises remain generally wary of handing over the keys to their computer rooms, according to one German outsourcing expert. 
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Motorola signs US$1.6 billion IT contract with CSC Sugar plums weren’t dancing, but Motorola had visions of improving its IT costs after announcing on Thursday a 10-year, US$1.6 billion outsourcing contract with El Segundo, Calif.-based Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC).
Monday, March 03, 2003
Networked storage security update and best practices Access to data has evolved from in-house only to regional and global levels. In short, information has been made more accessible from where the users, partners, and customers are located. However, more access points mean more chances for unauthorized eyes to discover and exploit sensitive data.
Thursday, October 31, 2002
Pimm Fox: Avoid the decline of IT innovation These benefits of shifting IT functions to third parties mask a perilous situation: the contraction of IT innovation. The debate over how to maintain IT innovation has never been more relevant.
Thursday, August 08, 2002
IT’s gunslingers find security in permanent positions Decision makers in the old west were faced with a conundrum when a rowdy gang rolled into town.
Thursday, May 16, 2002
Portals finding their way into IT department’s ‘to think about’ list Since the introduction of Web-based portals, enterprises have been left wondering what exactly they are intended to accomplish.
Sunday, May 05, 2002
Deliver top-drawer training Two years ago, Mark E. Yellen was in a huge bind. IT staffers were leaving his company in droves, complaining they weren’t being offered enough opportunities for professional growth. To stem the exodus, Yellen created an in-house training arm that offers at least one course each week.
Sunday, April 14, 2002
Trucking firm uses optimizing tool to manage operations Contract Freighters Inc. (CFI) was looking for a way to cut costs by better matching drivers to the loads that needed to be delivered.
Thursday, January 10, 2002
IT workers shape up January is traditionally the month of good intentions.