ComputerWorld Canada staff

The companies will formally announce an agreement for UniKix to be sold through HP distributors and resellers. Also, Cisco improves disaster recovery for System z users; Sun updates its open source identity management portfolio; Open Group

The Alcatel-Lucent company will create a North American hub in Saint John, N.B. Also, Peer 1 offers backup and DR services, Emerson ships three new PDU products and HDS inks a replication deal with InMage

McAfee will pay up to $170 million for the cloud-based service. Plus, VM6 joins Microsoft's virtual ecosystem, Fortinet releases a new endpoint solution, and Hostway announces new virtual servers

RapidMind''s product will fit into the suite of Intel''s parallel processing technology, according to an Intel blog post. Also, Air Canada releases an iPhone app, and Cisco settles on Centennial for security training

Some sites have more than 20,000 threats on them, according to the security company. Plus, recognizing the best in business intelligence, and a Vancouver ISP gives its services a 10 Mbps boost

Demand has plummeted for desktops, but the netbook phenomenon is helping to hold the line. Plus, a 30 per cent faster multi-function printer from OKI, a billion-chipset Wi-Fi forecast from ABI Research and a new eBay application store

Shopping for software from Apple, Google, RIM and Microsoft

Two leading Canadian security watchers headed down to Las Vegas for last week