Data & Analytics

VMware recently announced that more than 300 institutions are participating in its academic program. The program is designed to give the schools free access to virtualization products, source code and resources.

High-tech consumer products and services of all kinds are making their way into the workplace. They include everything from smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks to virtual online worlds. And as people grow more accustomed to having their own personal technology at their beck and call -- and in fact can't imagine functioning without it -- the line between what they use for work and what they use for recreation is blurring.

If information technology (IT) has to serve business, IT must talk the language of business, says Savino DiPasquale, vice-president of IT and CIO at GlaxoSmithKline. Read the article, see the video.

IT World Canada's 2007 Labour Market and Salary Survey reveals that 61% of responding companies expect to hire new staff. Overall, the survey results show a demand for 12% growth in IT staffing levels in 2007, in Canada. So, the IT job market is hot, but only if you have the right skills. If you want to be part of the wave, take a look at what eight experts -- including recruiters, curriculum developers, computer science professors and other industry observers -- say are the hottest skills of the near future.

Ceryx put another arrow in its quiver by signing Royal LePage to its Hosted Microsoft Exchange service for the realtor’s 12,000 sales representatives. Other...

After Sun Microsystems Inc. revealed Project Blackbox in October, the world's first virtualized mobile data centre visited Toronto this week, hitting the road (on wheels) as part of an international tour

Real-word business is booming in the 3D digital landscape. In the virtual world of Second Life, anything goes -- even if your goal is to build a corporate brand, hold ad hoc user group meetings, sponsor a conference or help end users find a video card driver. Here's our list of the top eight sites worth visiting.

Most people think that tagging on the Web is pretty easy and fun