Infrastructure

Video surveillance systems can serve a dual purpose: as deterrents to illegal behaviour and providing evidence to prosecute offenders. The Port Authority of Allegheny County based in Pittsburgh, recently began upgrading its existing cameras with an IP-based mobile video surveillance system developed by Ottawa-based March Networks Corp.

EBay Inc. customers won't be able to use the newly launched Google Checkout service to buy products, according to the auction Web site.

The Canadian Securities Institute (CSI Global Education Inc.) says its adoption of server virtualization technology has helped it to dramatically reduce the number of physical servers it uses, while providing e-learning services to some 40,000 students.

For the IT staff at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., the focus for the last couple of years has been on consolidation. The first goal was to centralize servers that had been scattered across the campus into two physical locations, and the next step was to use virtualization technologies to consolidate things even more.

IBM is due to officially unveil its DB2 9 database, previously codenamed

This may be the year that blade servers finally cast off their bad rap. Introduced in 2001, blade servers were supposed to change the computing landscape, but questions about reliability, power consumption and heat output put a damper on adoption.

IBM is due to officially unveil its DB2 9 database, previously codenamed

With its announcement last month of Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Corp. is one step closer to its goal of becoming a player in the booming enterprise business intelligence (BI) market.