Security and reliability vulnerabilities have frequently plagued Microsoft Corp.'s Windows platform, but a future version promises to wipe the security slate clean and bring forth an operating system that is big on dependability.
Despite the promise of easier management that storage area networks are offering data-flooded enterprises, many companies are taking a cautious approach to deploying the emerging technology.
As the concept of the wireless workplace slowly becomes a reality, it is no surprise that the printing arena has jumped on the bandwagon. And the sooner the better, it seems, for Lexmark Canada Inc.
While storing data is becoming an ever-larger expense for IT departments, two companies are promoting the idea of taking older, less-critical data off high-end servers and placing it on more affordable machines.
The time is now for convergence, and a utopian future of unified communications where devices can meet and mingle over a single network is not far off. At least, those were the messages coming out of Avaya Inc. headquarters last month.
When Cincinnati Bell was approached by its customers to provide high-speed connectivity, all it had to do was look at its existing infrastructure to get the feeling it wasn