Joaquim P. Menezes

Early this week Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to announce the first products in its Niagara server line. According to the company, the units will consume about half the power of Xeon- or Opteron-based systems, while handling as many as 32 individual software instructions per processor. This compelling combination of low-power consumption and high-processing capabilities has at least one major Canadian Sun customer quite enthused.

In this exclusive interview, Bruce Cleveland, senior vice-president, and general manager, products at Siebel Systems talks to IT World Canada's Web editor, Joaquim P. Menezes about Siebel's new Customer Adaptive Solutions strategy, initiatives to integrate Siebel and Oracle applications, some of the big focus areas of Siebel CRM moving forward, and much, much more.

Siebel CustomerWorld and Siebel Business Intelligence (BI) Summit opened simultaneously in Boston on Monday with a bunch of exec keynotes that were short on flashy product announcements, but noticeably long on strategy. The highpoint was the unveiling of Siebel

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Chief technology officer at NCR Corp., Mark Grossi is also a leading evangelist for "self-service banking at the touch of a fingerprint." It's a technology he and his team have honed and perfected at NCR's Advanced Concepts Lab in Dundee, Scotland. On Tuesday, Grossi demoed the technology in Toronto, focusing on the "chief benefits" of fingerprint biometrics: simplicity, security, and swiftness. IT World Canada's online editor Joaquim P. Menezes reports

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After more than a decade of stagnation, the data recovery market is going through a pervasive transformation, says one industry expert. The most visible aspect of this is a clear shift in focus from backup to recovery.