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YouTube Fridays: Poetic justice for the IT department

Don't ask me what prompted this. I'm not normally a fan of spoken word, but this is the kind of love letter IT staff doesn't...

The ‘mesofacts’ of technology and business

The location of your head office may not change. That’s one kind of fact. The average server workloads may fluctuate wildly. That’s another kind...

IT management secrets from the Grateful Dead

Come to think of it, Jerry Garcia wouldn’t look out of place in the back office. The very, very back office.I was intrigued by...

Welcome to Finance.ITWorldCanada.com

The year 2011 still looks a long way away until you start looking at the work that moving to IFRS involves. A while back...

Infrastructure management from a Microsoft perspective

Just what you've always wanted: an hour of me -- and only me -- on camera. Late last week I hosted a live Webinar for...

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum may close

A loosely organized group dedicated to preventing vendor lock-in may have served its purpose, according to its Toronto-based founder. What the future holds for open standards for enterprise-class clouds

YouTube Fridays: The ‘Toxic’ IT department

Britney Spears' lawyer will be in touch any moment now. Although some of the jokes in this clip (and no, I have no idea where...

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