Cindy Steinman

In a deal valued at approximately $250 million, Sun Life Financial Wednesday announced that it has inked an outsourcing agreement with IBM Global Services.

Enterprises across North America are finding that an application once thought of as basic has made its way onto the list of mission-critical items to manage.

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Bell Labs, a division of Lucent Technologies Inc. in Murray Hill, N.J., yesterday announced the design of new software which it says may lead to better authentication systems.

Demand for enterprise data storage will grow at a rate of 90 per cent through 2004, according to a report from the META Group released on Friday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday announced its push further into the UNIX server market with the addition of its fastest processor to its line of Sun Fire servers.

Ottawa-based JDS Uniphase Corp. will sell its Cronos Integrated Microsystem Inc. micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) business to a company in France for US$8.5 million, according to a Reuters News Agency report on Friday.

On a growing number of university campuses across Canada, students and teachers are able to log on to their networks while sitting in the bleachers at the football field, out on the campus grounds, or in some cases even from their dorms.