Monday, January 31, 2011
Cloud CIO: How cloud computing changes IT staffs What was heretofore implemented manually must be standardized, captured in rules, and executed without human interaction. So what will it mean for IT people when automation is infused within the systems? 
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Tech CEOs tell US gov't how to cut $1 trillion from deficit The federal government can achieve huge savings through IT consolidation and expanded Web services, a report says
Friday, March 19, 2010
Acrodex lands 7-year deal with Alberta government Minister Heather Klimchuk of Service Alberta explains what the contract means for government and public service employees. The goal to provide centralized IT desktop management services to all 24 ministries across the province
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Linux is the cloud’s future: IBM Canada At a ComputerWorld Canada Tech Insights panel discussion about Linux-based clouds, IBM Canada Linux champion tells how Linux is the past, present and future of cloud computing. University of Toronto’s SciNet HPC consortium spoke about its use of Linux. WITH VIDEO
Friday, February 12, 2010
The world's local bank goes global HSBC’s CIO is also its COO. He has 130,000 staff to manage. There’s a mission to standardize everything they do around the world. Yes, these are the big leagues
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Welcome to the global cloud Going from a private cloud to an external one can be a challenge, from the regulatory issues to the interoperability conundrum
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The IT issue Harper should bring up with Obama CIOs will be called upon to implement software standards like XBRL, which will pave the way to a modernized securities disclosure system based on interactive data. But first the Canadian government needs to put in place a single national regulator
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
IBM works on next-gen Web collaboration The differentiator, IBM claims, is that OpusUna lets all participants contribute instead of just one person serving as presenter
Monday, February 18, 2008
Y2K didn't solve all the date problems Close to a decade since the industry was panicking about key IT systems malfunctioning in the new millenium, a longtime ComputerWorld Canada reader points out an unresolved issue in data accuracy
Monday, May 07, 2007
NW-07-10-opinions-brodsky The biggest news from the recent CTIA Wireless 2007 show: After years of mostly talking about mobile applications and content, the industry is finally acting. And, lo and behold, Microsoft is positioned to cash in. 
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Treasury Board urges rethink on government productivity The Government of Canada must more fully embrace the principles and practices of enterprise business in order to transform the federal public service into a slick, efficient organization, says Jim Libbey, executive director of Treasury Board Secretariat. While standardization, cost savings and improving internal corporate services are among the biggest drivers for shared services, much more needs to done to achieve really significant improvements in productivity.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Microsoft, IBM cross swords over open document formats Microsoft went on the offensive Wednesday with a Valentine's Day attack on IBM openly accusing its rival of trying to subvert Microsoft's efforts to standardize its new document format and in turn destabilize customer choices. 
Thursday, June 08, 2006
SAP aims for bigger enterprise pie slice The more than 15,000 attendees at SAP’s annual Sapphire conference in Orlando last month heard how the German software vendor is looking to push the reach of its products deeper into the enterprise, reaching out to non-traditional users with new, more user-friendly interfaces and more dynamic tools for the power users. 
Friday, September 30, 2005
Defeating the customization argument CIOs know intuitively that too much customization and a hodgepodge of IT products will boost costs. Yet when business managers have argued that their particular group has unique needs requiring yet another custom system, CIOs haven’t had a strong counterargument in favor of standardization.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Open source not quite the panacea, say three schools Before welcoming students back in September, three cash strapped schools tried their luck cutting costs by purchasing software that included source code with no license fees. But, with limited budgets, the three found open source technology was not the answer, according to Microsoft Corp. 
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Toshiba, Clariant develop 30GB recordable HD-DVD Swiss chemical company Clariant International AG and Japan's Toshiba Corp. have jointly developed a dye that is necessary for dual-layer recordable HD-DVD discs capable of storing 30G bytes of data, they said.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Web services plug and play: promises, promises? Enterprise application integration (EAI) was all the buzz in the late 1990s but the "new thing" is Web services with its promises of 'plug and play', but what does it really mean, is it just another vendor fad? 
Sunday, March 07, 2004
New JSF standard becomes reality The final version of the JavaServer Faces (JSF) specification 1.0 was launched recently with the intention of simplifying the development of user interfaces for Web-based JavaServer applications.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Vendors, carriers eye WiMax wireless broadband Manufacturers and service providers looked at the emerging WiMax wireless technology this week and saw a possible rival to wired broadband services — at the end of what some see as a long standardization process.
Monday, November 10, 2003
IBM's Sutor on how SOAs fuel integration At the centre of IBM's SOA strategy is WebSphere, which figures to play an integral role in helping fuel that strategy. And at the centre of the company's WebSphere strategy is Bob Sutor, a long-time IBM executive now in charge of overseeing the present state and future direction of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio product lines.
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Web services still challenged by standards Web services integration technology remains subject to a plethora of standardization efforts and competing interests, panelists noted during the Web Services Edge 2003 West conference here recently.
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Dell joins Itanium fray — again When Dell Computer Corp. launches a product you know a technology has come of age. The company today launched its Intel Corp. Itanium 2-based PowerEdge 3250 server, marking the company's re-entry into the 64-bit computing market.
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Dell joins Itanium fray -- again When Dell Computer Corp. launches a product you know a technology has come of age. The company today launched its Intel Corp. Itanium 2-based PowerEdge 3250 server, marking the company's re-entry into the 64-bit computing market.
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Industry leaders form Open Mobile Alliance A who's who of mobile network companies, wireless handset makers, and IT companies on Wednesday announced the formation of the Open Mobile Alliance.
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Industry leaders form Open Mobile Alliance A who’s who of mobile network companies, wireless handset makers, and IT companies on Wednesday announced the formation of the Open Mobile Alliance.