Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Obama talks innovation, IT investments in speech The U.S. president also calls for more efforts to improve the country's education system
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
BYOT: Hype or a hiring dealbreaker? Bring Your Own Technology, or BYOT, can strike fear in the hearts of CIOs and security officers, who are split on whether the concept is an urban legend or the wave of the future
Friday, December 03, 2010
Time for IT departments to refocus security policy Technology professionals have several clear responsibilities relating to protecting their employers. The first is complying with the law. After that, it gets a little more messy
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Dealing with the rise of the mini machines Tips on how IT shops can embrace and secure smart phones and tablets. Plus, why some enterprises should be concerned about building their own app stores
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Privacy czar blasts feds on BlackBerry use Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says some federal agencies have no policies in place to encrypt the data held on government-issued BlackBerry smart phones
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
IT organizations lag on cloud governance, Ovum says Cloud computing governance “must improve” and allow for better co-ordination between various IT and business units, the research firm says. Find out why cloud governance is suffering from the same flaws that plague other IT governance areas
Friday, May 21, 2010
Is the government more social than the media? The latest spate of Australian social media catastrophes has journalists worried, bystanders amused, and others questioning the benefit of Twitter in the great meta-narrative that is current affairs.
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 15, 2009
Juniper strengthens appliances to remote attacks Strategy aims to connect application acceleration, VPNs, IDPs and access control to give 'global roaming policies'
Monday, April 27, 2009
Why enterprises aren’t paperless -- yet Despite advances in document management and storage, the piles of paper aren’t going away. Why the paperless office is still a myth
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Blue Coat advances integration with Packeteer gear The application acceleration vendor is upgrading its software to allow traffic shaping products to share information about data flows and application performance.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Seven steps to streamlined data governance One of the most pervasive problems companies face is the consistently poor quality of the internal data that they use to draw conclusions and make decisions. This expert on the subject contends that this can be remedied by taking a streamlined approach 
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Do you know where your data is? A new report shows two-thirds of companies still don’t have data governance practices in place. EMC offers tips on how to get started
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Vendors tackle virtualization security What VMworld attendees can expect from next week's show.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Laptops can be seized at the U.S. border. New border search policy authorizes U.S. agents to seize and retain travelers' mobile devices indefinitely.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Can the Olympics really threaten your IT security? Fortinet says the higher volume of digital traffic flowing during the Olympics will attract the attention of cyber criminals and increase your risk of being attacked. IDC Canada analyst David Senf also weighs in on the issue
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Principal Analyst, network security, Infonetics In a recent customer survey, respondents rated Cisco’s network access control as the most secure, but Juniper has better price performance. Find out what expert Jeff Wilson has to say
Friday, April 18, 2008
Putting e-mail intelligence to work Canadian government organizations collect massive amounts of sensitive public data, and much of it exists in e-mail form. Studies show that more than 70 per cent of a public sector organization's intellectual property is contained, in some fashion, within its messaging system.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Protecting the mobile workforce With the malware threat to mobile devices growing larger and the need to protect corporate information essential, now is a good time for IT executives to think about putting a comprehensive mobile security policy place. Here are some points to consider.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
BMO, Hbc focus on master data management From one major retailer, MDM is the first step in connecting business intelligence with customer relationship management. Plus: How can a major bank reduce the data cleansing workload and improve cross-sell lists?
Friday, December 21, 2007
Government faces Facebook reality The power of social networking is striking the federal government with unmistakable force. This month a successful Facebook campaign initiated by a University of Ottawa professor led Industry Minister Jim Prentice to re-evaluate the timeline of a new copyright legislation set to be introduced in Parliament.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
E-mail consultant More than half the respondents to a Monster.ca survey want their electronic communications kept private, while 29 per cent said surveillance would help improve productivity. Experts offer policy guidelines
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Three Canadian cities among world's "smartest" communities Three Canadian cities - Edmonton, AB, Vancouver, BC, and Fredericton, NB - have been named among the world's 21 smartest communities as the result of their smart and sensitive use of technology to foster socioeconomic progress.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Cisco announces TrustSec access control technology Software will be incorporated into the company’s switches and routers next year, and will allow companies to grant or deny network access based on a user’s role
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
E-mail appliance makers aim at admin overhead Sophos launches machines that send notifications to users of policy violations straight to their BlackBerry, and Marshal tries to get customers up and running in half an hour. Why threat protection is just one aspect of ROI