Sunday, December 17, 2006
AMD seeks to cash in chips on Vista AMD says it stands to benefit from the increased demand for visual capability in PCs that Microsoft's Windows Vista OS sparks – a demand AMD plans to respond to through its new family of quad-core server chips.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Install patches to avoid problems, NetBackup users told Users of Symantec Veritas NetBackup software are being advised to immediately update their systems with newly-created patches that repair several serious security vulnerabilities that could allow remote intruders to gain access to affected systems and execute arbitrary code.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Avaya buys Traverse Networks Avaya recently acquired Traverse Networks for US$15 million and announced simplified pricing for its various VoIP software platforms — moves the vendor hopes will be a one-two punch against Cisco and Nortel in the mobility and collaboration arena. 
Thursday, December 14, 2006
HP, Microsoft dare IBM with new deal Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is strengthening ties with Microsoft Corp. to provide a broadened portfolio of business software products to the enterprise market while delivering a competitive blow to rival IBM Corp.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Ruby on Rails moves in on Java Look out, Java. Ruby on Rails is staking out your turf. (Ruby on Rails is an open-source Web framework based on Ruby a trendy, object-oriented scripting language). And although Ruby on Rails programs run slower than Java systems, Ruby is much easier for programmers to use. But all is not lost for Java, which still enjoys advantages in areas such as security.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Product hits 
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
CIOs unfazed by Ballmer's claim Linux users owe Microsoft While Microsoft may cast the Nov. 2 patent cooperation agreement it pushed on new partner Novell as a way to protect corporate users of the SUSE Linux operating system from potential lawsuits, CIOs said they weren't worried in the first place. 
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Dell unveils 5 small business servers Dell rolled out five servers aimed at small businesses and remote offices that are easier for customers to deploy and manage than its current lineup.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Tivoli tunes into bandwidth IBM has taken a significant leap forward in office software management with the release of its Tivoli Provisioning Manager 5.1 product, according to one systems management analyst. 
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
40 server vendors to use Intel 'Tulsa' chips At least 40 server manufacturers announced plans to incorporate Intel Corp.'s new dual-core 64-bit Xeon 7100 processor, dubbed "Tulsa," into upcoming servers. 
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Blade server sales jump, Gartner says Blade server shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa jumped by a healthy 61.4 percent in the second quarter, helping the server market overall to increase by a steady 9 percent, according to new Gartner Inc. research. 
Sunday, August 20, 2006
EnVision empowers electricity operator Network Intelligence's core appliance-based product, enVision, serves as the "interpreter" that collects and correlates data from all the network devices. It helps identify threats to a company's network, churns out event reports in common language, and enables administrators to create a set of rules that govern access.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Sun's new Opterons aimed at data centres Sun Microsystems Inc. launched three Opteron-based servers last month, positioning them as midrange servers to be used for network computing in data centres.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Building a single foundation Virtualization is a model of computing designed to logically bring together a range of disbursed IT hardware devices to create a collective, singularly-functioning supercomputer of sorts. It is only now reaching mainstream status within organizations.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Outsourcing turns to IT security Experts agree that security is one of the toughest IT elements to outsource, but that isn't stopping the practice from catching on in Canada.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
AMD unveils revved-up Opteron in battle against Intel Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Tuesday released a new version of its Opteron processor, the popular server chip that has made AMD a serious competitor of rival Intel Corp.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
The 64-bit evolution The adoption of 64-bit Windows servers could mean big savings for companies, but many IT managers are taking a wait-and-see approach.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Microsoft's WGA is spyware, says lawsuit Microsoft Corp. has been hit with a second lawsuit over Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), its antipiracy program that checks if the Windows operating system on a machine has a valid license. 
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Global warming means hot times for technology It is now official, global warming is real. When I write “official” I don’t mean that scientists have finally agreed. By official I mean President George W. Bush has finally, and one might note grudgingly, admitted that global warming is fact. 
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Brace yourself for desktop virtualization Whether you like it or not, if you are at all involved with selecting the corporate desktop, you are going to have to deal with virtualization. Intel’s recent announcement of its vPRO and its attendant publicity campaign will make sure of that.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Double trouble – expert shares lessons learned from two disasters QuoVadis learned several key lessons when a fire struck Bermuda Electric Light Company Ltd. (BELCO) in July 14, 2005 and knocked out Bermuda’s lone electricity provider for days; but one that stood out was to “keep your cool” when disaster strikes.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Flexibility trumps costs savings as key ’virtualization’ driver Flexibility overrides cost savings as a driver for adopting server virtualization technology, a recent industry survey indicates. The Forrester survey findings are echoed by a Canadian survey of 500 large and mid-sized firms conducted by research firm IDC Canada Ltd. in Toronto.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Baby-talk spawns massive storage array Imagine a storage array with capacity that’s equivalent to a stack of iPods three times the height of the Empire State Building but that can be managed with common Ethernet networking tools, and you’ll get what a group of MIT scientists and four storage vendors are in the process of building. The storage array will support an MIT Media Lab project called the Human Speechome Project that is studying how babies develop the ability to talk.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Sun to lay off 5,000 Sun Microsystems Inc., plans to lay off as many as 5,000 employees, sell real estate and "simplify" its product line in an effort to boost profits, its newly appointed CEO Jonathan Schwartz said. 
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Microsoft attacks EU server-code ruling Microsoft Corp. Wednesday attacked the most contentious part of the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it -- the decision to force the company to share details of server source code.