Emerging Tech

With technology playing an ever more important role in the delivery of government services, we thought the time as right to poll the CIOs of the provinces and territories on the issues and initiatives at the top of their IT management agenda. And although these governments share a similar vision for IT in many respects, we also found a remarkable diversity of initiatives, accomplishments and incipient challenges.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new type of cable that can quickly and efficiently shoot light over long distances and around sharp bends

Rumors abound about the ludicrous promises and pressure tactics employed by "education mills."

The recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been labeled a wake-up call.

The challenges of IT management have led the Chief Information Office Branch at Treasury Board Secretariat of the federal government to extensive research into managing large public sector IT projects and programs. Among those tools are a management model, a sophisticated project manager

Recent studies have shown that an organization's storage requirements could double over the next 12 months, and organizations cite data storage needs as a business-critical priority. With so much riding on their data storage solutions, organizations should consider the benefits of hiring external storage management expertise.

It took about three-and-a-half years and close to $4 million to create, but one Mississauga, Ont.-based company has developed a security solution that it believes will help protect information.

The previous three parts of this series have discussed the advantages of mapping an organization to the characteristics that represent the