Opinion: Why IT will cheer HP's move to merge printers and PCs
For far too long, there has been an invisible question mark next to HP's name. Meg Whitman has successfully erased it.
Stories by Shane Schick
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CeBIT 2012: Big data becomes the big topic
The CEBIT trade show is an unbelievably vast series of more than 23 airplane hanger-sized halls, with thousands of vendors taking up booth space and a seemingly infinite number of products on display to the attendees moving from one exhibit to another. Trying to absorb it all is overwhelming - not unlike the challenges facing enterprise IT departments grappling with so-called "big data."
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Toronto's Platform Computing acquired by IBM
<a href="http://www.itworldcanada.com/tag/ibm"><u>IBM</u></a> on Monday added to its long list of Canadian software acquisitions with the purchase of Platform Computing, a company whose ability to manage "grids" of computing workloads will help Big Blue make gains in the cloud computing market.
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Canadian CIOs admit lack of security awareness
Have hackers, bonets or rogue ex-employees managed to steal mission-critical data from the enterprise? Don't ask the CIO.
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CIO study says IT leaders could one day be CEOs
Canadian CIOs have all the key leadership competencies they need if they were motivated to one day take on a CEO job and running an entire enterprise, based on research findings presented at an industry event on Thursday.
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Hospital CTO identifies virtualisation gotchas
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children has learned the hard way that virtualization efforts won't be successful if vendors aren't ready to support you, according to its director of technology.
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VMware brings virtualization to white box makers
VMware (NYSE: VMW) on Monday was expected to kick off its annual user conference in San Francisco by announcing an OEM agreement with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) that would bring its virtualization technology to system builders.
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IBM tries to get information on corporate agendas
IBM on Tuesday said it will offer corporate customers consulting services and software that will help business units and IT departments in distinct vertical markets understand how to manage information more effectively.
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10 changes Steve Ballmer should make at Microsoft
When I appeared on CBC Newsworld last week to talk about Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft, they asked me whether I thought the company can survive without him. I tried not to roll my eyes.
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Websense to take fear out of Facebook, Web 2.0
Websense used the InfoSecurity Canada show to introduce a software-based gateway product aimed at protecting enterprise customers from the dangers of social networking sites and other advanced online services.
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Nearly half of IT projects are killed off early
Nearly half of all IT projects get killed off before they're even completed, according to a survey conducted by the Information Systems Audit Control Association.
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AMD offers breathing room with Business Class PC
AMD's decision to move into the business PC market this week reminds me of the first line of Shopgirl, a novella by Steve Martin, which points out that working in the glove department at a large retail store means "you are selling things that nobody buys anymore."
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Microsoft's Live Mesh: The IT department implications
Even though it seems to signal a shift from its PC-centric corporate philosophy, I wouldn't call Microsoft's Live Mesh offering a disruptive technology. If anything, it's an accommodating technology.
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Five ways of defining cloud computing
As with nearly every IT trend, including service-oriented architectures and Web services, just because we're all talking about cloud computing doesn't mean we're talking about the same thing.
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Dave DeWalt and the mission for McAfee
You didn't have to know that Dave DeWalt is the CEO of McAfee to realize he is an American visiting Canada this week. No one up here is quite so tanned in April. But that wasn't the only way DeWalt stood out to me as a leader of the world's second-largest security software firm.
