Mark Els

A beta network appliance called Proteus aims to combine the benefits of high-end software with the advantages of low-cost, inherently secure hardware in one integrated Internet Protocol (IP) address management device.

iSERV Ontario, the provincial governments IT infrastructure services provider, is turning to utility computing services designed to offer access-on-demand to servers, desktops and applications via virtualized machines.

iSERV Ontario, the provincial government

Canadian service providers are hoping Wi-Fi will enable them to lighten the load on their cellular networks. Wi-Fi as a voice medium is a ready technology, they say, but a commercially viable business plan is still being developed.

RBC Financial Group will begin switching most of its Toronto telephone lines to a Cisco converged IP network this month, targeting nine of its 10 downtown locations in a multimillion-dollar managed services deal with Bell Canada, IBM and Cisco.

Nortel Networks Corp. is hoping to fill a gap in its enterprise router product range with the purchase of Tasman Networks Inc., as the company tries to nibble away at the massive market share held by Cisco Systems Inc.

New Canadian online education software is making it possible for IT students to learn hands-on with direct access to real machines over the Internet.

Drill down deep enough and secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption, with its public key infrastructure (PKI) at the core, will strike most as a complex, intricate technology.