Infrastructure

The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has done a deal with Microsoft Corp. that means U.K. schools may save up to 37 per cent when they choose to buy equipment from that company.

The fact that Red Hat Inc. announced new solutions with special pricing for the education and academic community on Wednesday won't convince at least one user to start dishing out coin for Red Hat's enterprise edition.

Starting in early 2004, PeopleSoft Inc. will unify the pricing models for its Enterprise software line and the EnterpriseOne line built around the applications it picked up through its August acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co. - a change that will alter the licensing structure J.D. Edwards customers are accustomed to.

As part of a new campaign designed to steal market share away from storage vendor EMC Corp., IBM Corp. is arming 100 of its consultants and a handful of its channel partners with a new storage migration appliance, code-named Piper, that Big Blue claims will simplify and speed up the replacement of old storage arrays.

You don't have to sell executives on the notion of reducing the amount of junk e-mail flooding their inboxes, according to two public sector IT professionals.

No industry has more false prophets, blowhards and snake oil salesmen than IT security. IT professionals just...

As of Jan. 1, all Canadian companies will have to abide by the rules and regulations set forth by Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronics Document Act (PIPEDA). Yet by all accounts, thousands of companies are still far from ready, and further still from understanding the implications of the Act.

Globalization will hit virtually all large corporate IT departments within the next year. By 2004, eight out of 10 CIOs will have direct marching orders to move offshore at least part of the technology services they provide to their businesses. Four out of 10 companies will already have done so, according to research from Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn.