Kathleen Lau

Articles by Kathleen Lau

Beware the evil lurking behind California wildfires

Taking advantage of hot news topics to lure victims to fake Web sites is a tactic that shows no sign of diminishing. Why search engine optimization techniques are a less labourious strategy for hackers

Citrix pushes virtual private data centre with Xen Cloud Platform

The Citrix-hosted xen.org community announces a platform upon which developers will collaborate on a

AMD releases ultra-low power Istanbul Opteron chip

The chipmaker unveiled its ultra-low power Istanbul Opteron EE processor for dense cloud computing environments. How the server market has bifurcated and what AMD plans to do about it

A Dutch lesson in user interfaces

A recent experience during a trip to Holland reminded me that there is much to be said for familiar user interfaces.One sunny day in...

Sims Recycling says shred it. Don

The Brampton, Ont-based recycler of electronics is secure and green, shredding things to bits and recycling everything but the bulb and battery. Why the approach of drilling hard drives won

Platform Computing buys HP-MPI library

The Toronto-based high performance computing technology vendor Platform Computing announced Monday the purchase of Hewlett-Packard

City of Mississauga IT staff get boot-camp training

The City of Mississauga in Ontario underwent a revamp of its IT processes and environment, including a switch to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 that required a nine-day training course compressed and customized into six. Why boot-camp style training works best in tough economic times

Langford digital document workflow saves office space

The City of Langford's move to a digital document workflow saved it 1,500 square feet of office space. Why document printing is not considered "sexy" and why IT managers overlook the opportunity to optimize the way they print, copy and scan paper

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