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.

By Shane Schick | 17 April, 2010 05:06

Tags: CIOs, security

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.

By Shane Schick | 17 April, 2010 05:16

Tags: CEO CIO Relationship, CIOs

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.

By Shane Schick | 29 January, 2010 07:04

Tags: virtualisation

Why Gen Y workers bypass IT usage policies

Nearly half of Generation Y employees in Canada say they routinely bypass IT usage policies and a quarter of them face no repercussions for doing so, according to a national study conducted by IT World Canada and Harris/Decima.

By Shane Schick | 21 January, 2009 11:36

Tags: generation y

Unleash your inner artist: Creativity and comp-sci

It took a 19th-century English poet to convince Robin Hunicke that her future lay in computer science.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

MIDs, UMPCs and what mobile users really want

I guess calling them MIDs is better than calling them unlaptops, or smart nonphones, but not by much.