Infrastructure

Corporate environments may be saying goodbye to PCs at every desktop if Hewlett-Packard Canada Co.'s latest developments in the world of virtualization catch on.

Continuing its war of words against the Linux community, The SCO Group Inc. on Wednesday accused free software advocates of threatening the intellectual property protections provided by U.S. and European law.

IBM Corp. and SuSE Linux on Thursday announced the opening of a new software integration centre in Toronto, which will support customers and better enable the integration of SuSE Linux with IBM offerings, according to the companies.

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.

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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.

The City of Mississauga, Ont. plans to build a wireless system that will give bylaw and fire safety inspectors the means to file reports while on the move.