Tablet terror revealed at SecTor security show
TORONTO – The first day of the annual SecTor security conference was filled with presentations on what…
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Citrix security chief says cloud equals “loss of control”
Cloud computing and mobility have been in the headlines recently, but not for showing how enterprises use…
IBM Canada to build federal data centre
Shared Services Canada (SSC), has selected IBM Canada to provide and manage one of the seven data…
Alcatel sells enterprise unit to Chinese investment firm
Alcatel-Lucent’s Enterprise division has always stood in the shadow of its bigger telecom equipment maker brother. Now…
Unify prepares to launch cloud UC service
Next month Unify Inc. – formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications – will release its new cloud-based unified communications and collaboration…
Cloud provider offers location-based VM protection
The advantage of virtualization is that it lets administrators put virtual machines anywhere in the cloud. The…
6,000 jobs to be cut at Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems Inc. is cutting 6,000 jobs — about 8 per cent of its staff — after…
BlackBerry buying German anti-snooping firm
NEW YORK – BlackBerry is buying a German provider of anti-eavesdropping technology to extend its security protection…
SAP to open Canadian data centre
Yielding to customer pressure on information sovereignty, SAP Canada will set up a data centre north of Toronto…
Tape vendor challenging EMC in deduplication market
Tape drive and automation vendor Quantum Corp. of San Jose, Calif., is bringing out a DXi 6900 appliance with…
CIOs will remain vital to the enterprise
How isolated is the CIO in the executive suite? It’s been a question asked for years because…
HP tweaks 5400 switch
Seven years ago, Hewlett-Packard Co. brought out its first switch that supported the fledgling OpenFlow protocol for…
Cracking encrypted traffic may be easier than you think
Many IT security experts say encrypting data is the only way enterprises can be assured data is…
How IT departments pour security dollars down the drain
IT departments spend hundreds — maybe millions — of dollars a year on network security systems to…
Galaxy Tab S is Samsung’s lightest tablet
The latest Samsung tables are expected to hit Canadian stores before the end of the month with…