Project Management

North American organizations are exposing themselves to significant security and financial risks because of the inability to properly manage their IT assets, according to a recent report from Softchoice Corp.

In an analysis of the Canadian IT market for its U.S. and international clients, Forrester Research is projecting a moderate increase in Canadian IT spending of four percent in 2006, continuing two years of slow growth.

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IT consulting relationships can certainly have their ups and downs. But the good news is, there

Most business books have one big idea that the author draws out for 200 pages. Usually the idea can be explained in a review, and the book itself, coloured with vague examples, is best to skim.

Web-based financial education firm Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) has learned a lot about doing more with less, virtually. When 32 of its Windows NT machines were reaching the end of lifecycle last year, CSI saw an opportunity to consolidate its server environment and optimize the use of its IT resources. Server virtualization allowed the Toronto-based company to retire its 32 servers and replace them with just four Intel Xeon dual-core processors on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Prompted by citizen concerns, the Toronto Board of Health is conducting a study of the potential health risks posed by Toronto Hydro Telecom's plans to blanket the downtown core with Wi-Fi access points.

Companies today are clamouring for business-driven disaster recovery (DR) systems that allow them to run key applications in the shortest time possible.