Dan McLean

Articles by Dan McLean

New technology lets network Davids take down Goliath

Canada, as the world's seventh largest IT market, is generally from a vendor's standpoint a highly competitive and hotly contested geography.

Security at heart of refreshing Enterasys strategy

Enterasys, a networking company that since its inception has been in a constant state of makeover, may have finally hit upon an identity with which it can live for a long time.

Vendors waken to the small-medium opportunity

Small and medium businesses (SMBs) in 2004 might be inclined to declare that it's good to be the king. The king of IT...

Survey says: security, multifunction devices are hot

The year ahead in enterprise networking looks a whole lot like the one that just passed. That is to say it's unlikely...

Serious IT security disconnects continue to plague the enterprise

Three years ago, IDC Canada research into IT security identified what was then described as a "disconnect" that existed between the risk apparent for many Canadian organizations and the effort invested to minimize that risk.

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The days of achieving strategic advantage through IT investment are gone. So says a recent Harvard Business Review article published in May.

Gazing at the network of the future

There was a time when you didn't have to be a rocket scientist or a network engineer for that matter to figure out the driving need for enterprise data communication systems.

Shift to outsourcing will be slow

The handoff of information service operations by large businesses to third-party outsourcing providers continues and might well lead many Canadian IS professionals to wonder what the future holds for their internal IS departments.

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