Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Cisco streamlines Telepresence for a post-PC world ENTERPRISE CONNECT The network giant places its bet on people-centric collaboration at an Orlando trade show
Friday, December 23, 2011
ITWC This Week Greatest Hits, Volume 1 VIDEO PLAYLIST We're in reruns for the holidays. We talk virtualization in a gondola, explore a networked tower and argue over whether to purchase a discontinued TouchPad
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Cisco nabs Juniper sales execs Neal Oristano and Jim Labovites jump to Cisco's global service provider sales team
Friday, July 22, 2011
CRTC Internet billing hearings explained IT WORLD THIS WEEK VIDEO PLAYLIST Howard Solomon untangles the whole sale Internet billing hearing before the CRTC, Canadian Cancer Society Ontario IT director Gerry Holmes on upgrading an age-old network, and students use IT to solve worldwide humanitarian issues
Monday, July 11, 2011
Cisco will be leaner, faster, more attentive, Chambers pledges CISCO LIVE 2011 Cisco's CEO says the company will focus on five strategic areas, become more customer friendly, and shed 5,000 to 10,000 jobs
Friday, July 08, 2011
Cisco adds tools to scale wide-area video Enterprise Content Delivery System aims to minimize the impact of video on an enterprise's network. An industry analyst says Cisco still doesn't have sophisticated video editing capability and an easy-to-use management interface
Friday, June 03, 2011
Canaccord betting Dell will buy Brocade While Paul Mansky sees a good fit for the networking company in Dell's portfolio, the question remains: What's in it for Brocade?
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
HP launches IT executive scorecard software CIOs and operational managers could see the health of IT or other organizational operations, using actual operational data collected by HP and third-party programs 
Friday, May 20, 2011
From CIO to CEO: CANARIE's new president Mark Roman has made the leap, from driving IT strategy for the University of Victoria to overall business leadership at our national research network. How he did it, and how you can, too
Monday, April 25, 2011
The worst CIO excuse: 'Above my pay grade' If you want the "C" in chief information officer to be anything more than ceremonial, George Gorsline says it's time to recognize that corporate strategy is everyone's job. Take this advice
Monday, April 18, 2011
Virtualization, cloud put new stress on network A look at what people will be talking about as Interop celebrates its 25th anniversary in Las Vegas. Plus, why networking has fallen behind in the new cloud computing dominated world
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
HP integrates 3PAR into storage The move is part of the IT giant’s converged infrastructure and cloud strategy. In addition, HP has integrated 3PAR's technology with HP X9300 Network Storage Systems, which is based on IBRIX NAS technology
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Steer your career to the cloud Although perhaps not in such dramatic fashion, the rise of cloud computing in the enterprise is affording many IT professionals the opportunity to recast their organizational roles
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Why you need to evolve for a hot IT job While some IT jobs are being automated, outsourced, or lost in the cloud, IT pros who evolve and transform with the industry can become indispensible to their companies. How do you become one of them?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Is your network future-proof? An IDC Canada analyst and an Allstream exec discuss how the network is transforming and what companies must do to keep up. The technologies that are impacting the network
Thursday, January 20, 2011
EMC is ‘bolting together’ old storage tech, HP says HP’s StorageWorks GM David Scott said EMC is simply repacking older architectures as opposed to truly moving the storage industry forward. Find out what else he had to say
Friday, January 07, 2011
Polar Wireless aims to slash roaming fees A new wireless firm has announced a deal to buy the remaining shares of an Ontario numbered company. With the deal it soon hopes to launch a new service that will save international travelers big bucks on roaming fees
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Man used neighbor's Wi-Fi to threaten U.S. VP Biden A Minnesota man hacked a Wi-Fi network to e-mail death threats to several U.S. politicians. He used Aircrack Wi-Fi cracking software to gain access to his neighbor's WEP-encrypted network, according to prosecutors
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Sprint to launch more than US$4 billion in network upgrades The three- to five-year project will focus on consolidating equipment and phasing out cell sites, the company says
Monday, November 22, 2010
Strength in numbers for 'women in IT' IT LEADERSHIP AWARDS The whole point of “women in IT” is that you can’t get very far on your own. That’s why Jennifer Ng has spent the last year forming partnerships wherever she can
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Cisco's 'borderless network' strategy explained Q&A Ross Fowler makes a visit to Toronto where he talks about the network equipment giant's ambitious product collection, how it is changing the way its business units work together and the role of the CIO vs. the network manager
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
New network cut phone costs by two-thirds IT LEADERSHIP AWARDS Leading the implementation of a complete network overhaul at Tridel netted Brad Barlow IT Manager of the Year honours in the SME category
Monday, November 15, 2010
Brocade releases Ethernet storage switch family The VDX family of switches offers Fibre Channel over Ethernet or iSCSI connectivity
Friday, November 12, 2010
The proof is in the spending IT LEADERSHIP AWARDS Kevin Pashuk managed to squeeze an extra 25 per cent out of Appleby College for its IT budget. How learning is a journey, and technology is a vehicle
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Canadians learn Defcon network security secrets SecTor 2010 includes a session where contributors to the granddaddy of hacker conferences explain how they set up the infrastructure and wireless access in a Los Vegas hotel in less than a week