Open Text offers iPad support, cross-tool integration

Open Text Corp's legal customers will soon have the ability to access and share documents residing in several of the Waterloo-based vendor's content management products, including the most recently available collaborative tool Social Workplace and eDOCS Edition 5.3, as well as on Apple Inc.'s iPad.

By Kathleen Lau | 10 September, 2010 05:36

Tags: wireless, software, social networking, Open Text, mobile, content management, applications

Accenture, SAP execs talk analytic trends

While business analytics tools are becoming cheaper and easier to use, organisations are still facing the underlying problem of understanding the data sources that feed these systems, said an executive with professional services firm Accenture PLC.

By Kathleen Lau | 10 September, 2010 05:32

Tags: software, sap, business intelligence, applications, accenture

Social media, sustainability mark future IT manager

A new IBM Corp. global study of today's university and graduate students reveals unique Gen-Y traits that paint a profile of the IT manager of the future whose leadership strategy is built on an affinity for social networking and a global approach to innovation.

By Kathleen Lau | 10 September, 2010 05:38

Tags: social media, it management, Internet-based applications and services, internet, IBM, careers

Conficker a year later is a 'loaded gun'

It's been about a year since Conficker/Downadup hit in 2009, and although the threat didn't turn out to be as grave as it had the potential to be, the 6.5 million PCs that remain infected today represent what Symantec Corp. calls a "loaded gun, waiting to be fired."

By Kathleen Lau | 23 April, 2010 09:04

Tags: security, conficker

AMD launches 12-core Magny-Cours chip

Based on an improved architecture, the Opteron 6000 series chips perform up to two times the level of AMD's previous generation six-core chips, said AMD Inc. An analyst thinks AMD has decided it wants to lead in processor innovation to broaden its market presence.

By Kathleen Lau | 07 April, 2010 03:31

Tags: amd

Gartner releases 2010 end user predictions

A new set of predictions by Gartner Inc. reports that by 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets, neither end user nor data centre.

By Kathleen Lau | 03 March, 2010 07:26

Tags: virtualisation, predictions, Gartner

Virtualization should be 3D: DataCore

Storage technology vendor DataCore Software Corp. is touting a three-dimensional approach to virtualization that encourages organizations to address server, desktop and storage concurrently from the outset when building a virtualized environment.

By Kathleen Lau | 13 March, 2010 06:26

Tags: virtualisation, storage, server, desktop, Datacore

Gartner releases 2010 end user predictions

A new set of predictions by Gartner Inc. reports that by 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets, neither end user nor data centre.

By Kathleen Lau | 13 March, 2010 06:16

Tags: virtualisation, Gartner

Linux is the cloud's future: IBM Canada

While cloud computing is merely a label given to the latest evolution of what organizations have been doing for a long time, one consistent component in the cloud has been Linux, said Jim Elliott, IBM Canada Ltd.'s Linux champion.

By Kathleen Lau | 13 March, 2010 06:30

Tags: Linux, IBM, cloud

App performance '1.0' bad for cloud, SOA: exec

The founder and CEO of an application performance management (APM) software vendor said that today's IT development and production environments are not adequately served by what he terms "APM 1.0."

By Kathleen Lau | 27 February, 2010 06:04

Tags: soa, cloud, application performance management

10 IDC tech predictions 2010

IDC Canada Ltd. recently revealed its top 10 technology predictions for 2010.

Is someone intercepting your mobile voice calls?

Seventy-nine percent of organizations recently surveyed reveal their employees conduct confidential conversations over their mobile phones, yet only 18 per cent of those actually have mobile voice call security in place.

By Kathleen Lau | 30 December, 2009 07:08

Tags: hacking, gsm

SQL Power Wabit BI tool comes to enterprise users

A Toronto-based business intelligence (BI) software vendor is giving the frontline worker a tool they can actually use with the newly released enterprise edition of Wabit, which follows the March release of the client version.

By Kathleen Lau | 30 December, 2009 07:07

Tags: business intelligence, bi

HP's new architecture tackles IT sprawl

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled new offerings to help customers address IT sprawl and build IT infrastructures that can quickly scale as the need arises.

By Kathleen Lau | 10 November, 2009 05:19

Tags: virtual sprawl, virtualisation, HP

Proposed U.S copyright law hurts users

A Canadian university professor believes there is a campaign in the U.S. to make Canada out to be a haven for content piracy in order to push stricter copyright law, when in fact Canada's copyright legislation is compliant with its international obligations.