Infrastructure

Decision part of an eventful month for Linux

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.

Incumbent telco Telus Corp. is picking up the pieces after a terrible October. The month brought service disruptions, regulatory disappointments and even a shooting incident to the company.

One customer is calling storage solutions maker EMC Corp.

Earlier this year, I predicted that the communications platform of the future would be the blade server. My prediction is beginning to be played out.

Portable IT-based productivity tools just keep getting niftier and niftier. Hands-on reviewer Gerry Blackwell once again offers up his pick of the litter.

Software licensing practices must change to accommodate economic and technology trends,rn officials stressed at the recent SoftSummit conference in San Jose.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by information overload lately, you may not be alone.rn The amount of new information stored on various media such as hard drives has doubled inrn the past three years, to five exabytes of new information produced in 2002, according to arn recent study by the University of California, Berkeley.rn