Michael Martin

"Once bitten, twice shy," goes the old saw. But it doesn't apply to Montreal-based CTBR Bio-Research Inc. Despite a bad experience with an early voice-over-IP (VoIP) system, CTBR decided to give the technology another chance. In fact, the company opted to move over completely to VoIP when it came time to upgrade its network. The reasons were savings and simplicity.

Enterprise XML traffic is booming and companies had better begin looking at ways to tame the XML beast before it overwhelms their networks, experts say.

Storage is growing in leaps and bounds, but the storage technology with the potential to bound ahead of all the rest is iSCSI, according to Dave Hitz, Network Appliance co-founder and executive vice-president. Hitz sat down with IT World Canada

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) became the latest vendor to enter the wide area network (WAN) router fray when it unveiled its ProCurve 7000 series WAN router last week. The new HP router series targets branch offices that connect back to a central site. Boxes include support for virtual private networks (VPNs), via a daughtercard add-on and a built-in firewall.

A commonly held view on outsourcing has it that U.S. companies send some call centre work to Canada and Canadian companies ship some software development work overseas. The reality, finds a soon-to-be-published study, is way more complex.

On the eve of this week

A report released by a U.S.-based research group this month questions the rationale behind municipally funded Wi-Fi broadband networks, but the group

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are increasingly being tasked to tie together business processes and information technology, rather than merely selecting and managing IT systems, according to a recently released survey from consulting firm Deloitte.