Friday, January 14, 2011
Edmonton firm to add monitoring system to keyboards Cleankeys is looking to add a feature that lets hospital administrators track how often and how well their fleet of keyboards are cleaned. Find out more about the company’s flagship cleanable keyboards
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
How to put IT in the user's seat By measuring the user experience, enterprises can see how an application traversing the network ultimately behaves on the user machine -- and IT pros can go into troubleshooting mode if conditions start to degrade
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
India may put restrictions on Skype and Google The country wants its security agencies to have access to online and mobile communications
Friday, July 23, 2010
10 social media tools for enterprises Social media tools that matter. A quick-hit list of aggregators, managers and analytics tools for enterprises -- and one freebie -- in random order
Friday, June 11, 2010
Twitter buys Canadian analytics company The social networking giant is seeking to boost its Web analytics capacity with the acquisition of Smallthought Systems. The Canadian firm created Trendly, a cloud-hosted Web analytics application
Monday, March 01, 2010
Net Optics unleashes 40G network tap Taps have grown out of favour over the years, replaced by mirror ports on switches. However, the California company believes when demand for 40G in the data centre increases it will be ready
Friday, January 29, 2010
Compuware taps Gomez for performance management The product combines Web performance management with behind-the-firewall user monitoring in a single dashboard
Monday, October 05, 2009
How to keep network managers from going rogue Insider threats are on the rise. Here’s how PowerKeeper 4.0, a privileged management account software tool, can prevent disgruntled IT managers from wreaking havoc on your network...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The dark side of DLP The most productive employees hardly need to be monitored, and those who aren’t will simply look for ways to avoid being monitored. Data loss prevention can provide security from breaches but monitoring should not be used to examine every minute of work
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
The alternative to blocking Facebook Vero Beach, Fla.-based SpectorSoft makes its case for corporate monitoring software. Plus, a pair of Info-Tech Research Group analysts weighs in on what companies should know before they get into the technology
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Gigabit Ethernet goes to war The US Navy spends $42.9 million to upgrade the networks on its guided missile destroyers. Plus, NASA looks to develop an open space Ethernet standard
Monday, July 06, 2009
Building a data center security architecture Disparate systems, such as firewalls, IPS and SSL accelerators are being consolidated in subnet architectures.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The trouble with trouble-shooting Network managers are still struggling to find problems before users do. New tools make it easy to gather performance data, but are we doomed to suffer what one vendor calls 'death by metrics?'
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
McAfee software watches kids' Internet use Ontario’s privacy commissioner gave a thumbs up to McAfee on Tuesday as the company unveiled Internet security software for families. Why protecting your kids online is protecting yourself
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
CA promotes 'Lean IT' management approach CA releases updates to 13 different enterprise applications, including service desk, service catalogue and application performance management tools. Plus: The Canadian country manager discusses the benefits of focusing solely on software
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Symantec adds intelligent software management to Altiris At its ManageFusion event, Symantec Corp. announced the newest version of its management suites for client systems and servers with a focus on better integration and process automation. The benefits to customer MaximumASP’s 2,200 production servers
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
U.S. cybersecurity director quits, cites DHS/NSA turf war In his resignation letter, Rod Beckstrom says the U.S. National Security Agency is already too powerful in controlling the National Cyber Security Centre. What he said about the clash of cultures
Monday, December 22, 2008
Penetration testing: dead in 2009? Is the practice of penetration testing headed the way of desktop publishing and the PDA? Well probably not dead as is dead and gone, it just won't be as cool as it was before. Here's a look at the possible reincarnation of penetration testing 
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Why SOA needs a governance framework When developers are able to write software code once and have that code re-used by many disparate systems for a variety of functions, the potential for cost savings are tremendous but so are the chances of creating a 'lawless' environment
Monday, November 03, 2008
BMC Software launches new Performance Advisor technology "The bane of IT shops is you buy a lot of hardware and it becomes underutilized," says the company's CIO. Here's his company's contribution to the answer
Sunday, November 02, 2008
BMC launches Performance Advisor technology "The bane of IT shops is you buy a lot of hardware and it becomes underutilized," says the company's CIO. Here's his company's contribution to the answer
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Click fraud slips but still a threat as scammers resort to botnets The rate of click fraud has dropped but security researchers say cyber crooks are now using botnets to trigger fraudulent online ad clicks
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Partner, Blake, Cassels and Graydon Corporations are recognizing the need to deploy surveillance technologies that track what employees are doing, but it could become a full-time job without the right IT. Follow this approach
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Homeland Security asks Dalhousie to visualize data A Canadian researcher will develop an open source framework that will analyze network traffic in order to identity security risks both in the U.S. government and enterprises elsewhere
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Troubleshooting tool for Java offered Java Platform SE Update 7 now includes VisualVM, a diagnostic tool for development and production environments. Find out what it can do