Ryan B. Patrick

Manufacturers and retailers taking meaningful steps to drive consumer loyalty are 60 per cent and 88 per cent more profitable than their competitors who do not, reveals a Deloitte Research study earlier this year.

In the face of intense competition, network storage developer EMC launched several new software applications that extend to competing vendor storage environments.

Ottawa-based personal computer maker Northern Micro Inc. announced Wednesday it is acquiring the server and storage division of Montreal-based network storage developer Maximum Throughput Inc.

Canada

The one-two combination of an economic slump and the Sept. 11 attack has sent the Canadian tech sector reeling, but not yet down for the count, according to a recent market assessment by IDC Canada.

Cisco Systems has unveiled a couple of new additions to its Internet routing family, aiming to deliver high-performance application combinations and services for enterprise and service provider customers, as well as offer multi-protocol routing that scales to OC-48 speeds.

Telesat Canada and Ford Motor Company announced a multimillion-dollar satellite-based program late last month that will provide high-speed intranet and Internet services to Ford Motor dealerships across North America.

In times when the economic forecast is a little hazy, corporations tend to clamp down on spending and look at ways to better project management.