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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Eucalyptus, Terracotta partner for private clouds The new partnership will combine Terracotta’s scalable infrastructure software with Eucalyptus Systems’ open source private cloud platform to solve issues related to scalable data management and elastic provisioning
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Unix turns 40 After four decades, the future of a once revolutionary operating system is clouded, but its legacy will endure
Forty years ago this
summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one...
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Australia leads Asia in SOA, Springboard says Proven products, clear road maps and vendor reputation are keys to choosing a solution, according a study by the research company
Thursday, March 01, 2007
The how, why and where of future IT What will your IT department look like in, say, five years? This is an important question, because we’re at the beginning of an array of major changes in the how, where and why IT is done.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Toyota cuts call costs with VOIP in Australia Toyota Material Handling (TMH) has cut telco costs by replacing a 10-year-old PABX system with VOIP and leveraging its existing WAN.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
CTO, SSHA What worries Linda Weaver, chief technology officer, Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), about Voice over IP (VoIP) is not the technology itself but the stresses and strain it puts on a network infrastructure. “[SSHA] is in a leased building that is very old [and] has very troubling LAN infrastructure. I worry that everyone looks at the applications without looking at the implications of rolling these things [such as VoIP] out into a healthcare environment,” she said during an ITAC Ontario roundtable discussion called “VoIP plans and implementation in hospitals” last Thursday. 
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
EDS regroups to attack Linux, IBM in Australia IT infrastructure services giant Electronic Data Systems Corp. has drawn a line in the sand over the way it intends to drum up new infrastructure business, with selective sourcing, open source and IBM definitely not part of the equation. 
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Best Software overhauls Act, unveils premium edition Best Software Inc. launched this week an overhaul of its Act contact management software, adding to the product line a second version with more scalability and advanced functionality.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Fidelity National chooses single vendor route Fidelity National Financial Inc. has undertaken a four-year project to replace its distributed, multi-vendor computing environment with a centralized infrastructure based on IBM Corp. technology.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
MySQL buys Alzato In a bid to make its open source database more scalable and available, MySQL AB on Tuesday acquired Alzato, maker of the NDB Cluster — a data management system designed for the telecom and IP environments.
Friday, September 19, 2003
Open source database targets midmarket Open source software is becoming increasingly attractive to businesses that can’t afford the cost and complexities of the licensing agreements for proprietary products.
Friday, September 05, 2003
Open source database aimed at midmarket Open source software is becoming increasingly attractive to businesses that can’t afford the cost and complexities of the licensing agreements for proprietary products.
Friday, May 16, 2003
Pension plan system shifts from manual to real-time With approximately 40,000 users of its services, the Labourers' Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada (LPF) knew it had a heavy task in front of it when it decided to switch from manual and paper-based processes to automated ones. 
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Lucent adds edginess to older multiservice gear As expected, Lucent Technologies unveiled enhancements to its older multiservice switches designed to increase service capacity for frame relay, IP and ATM.
Sunday, April 14, 2002
Taming data chaos That motley collection of corporate data you’ve been accumulating probably resembles a Jackson Pollock painting. Several drips over here, a few splatters over there, a big blob right here. It’s a mess.
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Fluke looks to redefine tech scalabilityNetwork World Canada Of the many phrases circling the high-tech industry, “scalability” is one of the most popular.
Thursday, May 31, 2001
Managers struggle to juggle priorities Trying to juggle security, scalability and efficiency in a network is a balancing act that often doesn’t work
Thursday, March 08, 2001
The forgotten side of network security — performance With network security, we may find that we are our worst enemy.
Thursday, August 10, 2000
Hitachi delivers Lightning fast storage Freedom Speed could make or break a company, something Hitachi Data Systems must have been considering prior to announcing the Freedom Storage Lightning 9900, the first in a new generation of storage systems based on an internal switch architecture, the patent-pending Hi-Star.
Thursday, September 09, 1999
3Com Upgrades Management Software 3Com unveiled a significant upgrade to its traffic-management software last month that enables users to proactively avoid network problems.
Thursday, February 25, 1999
Linux’s scalability limitations need clarification In the article “Linux not everything to all” (NWC, Jan. 29, 1999, page 1), I find it a little irresponsiblewhen you quote Jonathan Eunice, analyst at Illuminata Inc. in Nashua N.H., as saying “Linux does not have the kind of system size or scalability that lets it run a big database or big application,” when three days later Timothy Dyck for PC Week Labs issues a report called “IBM backs Linux with solid DB2” (www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,383856,00.html).
Thursday, February 11, 1999
Old guard must adaptto new-age messaging The three kings of enterprise messaging -- Lotus, Microsoft and Novell -- are looking more and more like clueless bystanders in this new age of carrier-grade messaging services.
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