Jeff Jedras

Enterprises currently operating IBM System z9, iSeries and zSeries machines now have another option for running their business applications with Big Blue

A task force headed by former federal Auditor General Denis Desautels has some advice for the Ontario government on how to better manage large IT projects. If followed, these directives could have a significant impact on how IT service providers do business with the province.

At the junior level most sports teams are small businesses and are run that way, with little in the way of IT sophistication. The Saint John Sea Dogs are looking to change that, turning to an application service provider to get major league CRM and ERP capabilities on a minor league budget.

Like diamonds, e-mails are forever. Or at least, it would seem like forever for companies required to implement e-mail archiving - for three to five years - to comply with regulatory and legal requirements. First Associates Investments Inc., a Toronto broker and investment dealer, recently turned to Toronto's Fortiva Inc. for an e-mail archiving system to comply with a bylaw implemented by the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (IDA).

Spyware is getting more dangerous and has become a greater threat for the enterprise, according to the latest quarterly state of spyware report from Boulder, Co.-based Webroot Software.

A new industry survey says wireless in British Columbia is now a $1 billion sector, but also identifies several potential problems that could curtail that growth. Prepared by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the Wireless Innovation Network Society of B.C. (WINBC), a wireless industry group, the survey estimates annual revenues at $1 billion based on reported revenues of $649 million, up 27 per cent from the last survey in 2001.

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Microsoft is out to slay the software piracy beast, but its methods are raising privacy concerns and could mean more work for enterprises not using centralized update management tools.