Managed Services & Outsourcing

Motorola Inc. and NEC America Inc. are teaming up to offer an infrastructure that lets enterprise employees use one wireless phone with one number both in the office and while on the road, enjoying corporate calling features such as dialing by extension.

Oracle Corp.'s upcoming database addresses major issues surrounding grid computing by enabling enterprises to build reliable grids based on commercial, rather than customized, technology, an Oracle official said on Monday.

Hewlett-Packard Co.

Expanding on traditional outsourcing arrangements and focusing on improvements across the enterprise is what NCR Canada says makes its new business intelligence (BI) managed services stand out from the pack.

The Canadian National Railway Co. was in a bind. After running automation smoothly in a mainframe data centre environment, new trends had led to an influx of servers that had no management policies

When a number of municipalities just west of Toronto amalgamated in 2001 to form the new City of Hamilton, Ont., the combined locality faced not only the colossal task of marrying disparate civic policies and support structures; it also faced a massive telecom bill: $2.8 million per year.

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans on Monday to submit its Web Services Management Framework (WSMF) for industry review to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

Rob Black is a consultant with the firm GSI Group and a member of both the national and Toronto boards of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS). He shared his opinions as a CIPS board member.