Managed Services & Outsourcing

Microsoft Corp. disclosed last week that the next version of its operations management software will introduce a set of packages to monitor Web services.

Are there important lessons for IT security managers from the Big Blackout of '03? Maybe not. In government offices across Ontario, most essential computers kept running through the outage; people returning from their unexpected holidays found they could log on and resume work more or less where they left off.

IBM Corp. last week continued to fill in its utility computing puzzle by introducing a variety of products, services and partnerships all designed to let companies more quickly deploy and more efficiently manage data-centre resources.

A massive wave of IT redundancies will hit Australian shores in the next few years with local vendor-based jobs moving to offshore outsourcing markets on a "substantial" scale, a senior Gartner Inc. researcher has warned.

IBM Corp.Wednesday announced it would make the second offering from its Project Symphony product family generally available by the end of October. The latest bundled product will help IBM customers more quickly deploy Web infrastructure on their nets, Big Blue says.

Much like Muhammad Ali

The Government of Canada announced a strategic initiative Sunday through which it plans to extend broadband Internet connectivity to the nation

The BMO Financial Group found some silver linings in a dark cloud after