Shane Schick

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GovSym raises notion of central IT security agency

A conference for public sector technology professionals examines the efforts needed to identify risks, threats and strategies to prevent data loss. Symantec's CIO discusses the need to balance protection with openness

5 global tech conferences that shouldn’t get cut

Next month would have marked the one time in the year thousands of technology professionals make the trek to Salt Lake City to figure...

How Red Hat could compete in the virtualization space

Now if Red Hat had actually decided to buy VMware, that would have been interesting.Instead, the open source company has decided to take the...

YouTube Fridays: Come sail away with CRM

A company called Lazzarra Yachts has come up with a whole series of clips that give an inside look into their operation, including this...

IT managers: Enough with the whole step-by step thing

The situation is this: you have asked a new employee to write a proposal to buy some new equipment for your division. The employee...

YouTube Fridays: Is IT just another ‘Joe’ job?

I feel like I'm seeing more and more of these kinds of commercials where crude graphics are used to illustrate complex technology, but something...

My slightly sleazy Blogging Idol commercial

Okay, so I can't make a lot of excuses about this. I can't even say someone forcedme to say these words, because I wrote...

Cloud computing in Canada: The enterprise obstacles

Hosted IT infrastructure and applications online can bring benefits, but attendees at this week's first-ever Canadian Cloud Computing Conference heard more about the challenges for corporations

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