Russian vendor tasked with securing Sochi games offers Olympic security tips
With thousands of athletes, officials and spectators descending on Sochi, Russia for the Winter Olympic Games, that’s…
A veteran technology and business journalist, Jeff Jedras began his career in technology journalism in the late 1990s, covering the booming (and later busting) Ottawa technology sector for Silicon Valley North and the Ottawa Business Journal, as well as everything from municipal politics to real estate.He later covered the technology scene in Vancouver before joining IT World Canada in Toronto in 2005, covering enterprise IT for ComputerWorld Canada. He would go on to cover the channel as an assistant editor with CDN.His writing has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and a wide range of industry trade publications.
Quebec VAR brings Russian security software to Canadian government
PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – A Quebec VAR has locked up the exclusive rights to sell Kaspersky…
Kaspersky brings virtualization security to Microsoft and Citrix
PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Security vendor Kaspersky Lab is building on the success of Kaspersky Security…
Kaspersky program matches product resellers with services partners
PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – A new services program launched by security vendor Kaspersky Lab at its…
Partners launch virtualized firewall and threat protection offering
Citrix Systems and Palo Alto Networks teamed to launch the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, a next-generation virtualized firewall…
Sony may retreat from PC business: report
There may about to be one less competitor in a PC market that has been squeezed by…
Digital lovers in a dangerous time
With less than two weeks until Valentine’s Day, security vendor McAfee (soon to be Intel Security) has…
Asus puts Chrome in a box with low-cost Chromebox
A number of vendors have launched Chromebook laptops running Google’s lightweight, no-cost Chrome OS, but PC vendor…
Microsoft names Satya Nadella its CEO; Bill Gates out as chairman
Confirming wide-spread media reports last week, Microsoft Corp. confirmed Tuesday that Satya Nadella is the tech giant’s…
Mobile devices, insecure software and Java make for growing attack surface
An ever-widening attack surface means IT security professionals need to approach their jobs in a new way,…
Microsoft may have picked its next CEO
Bill Gates. Steve Ballmer. Satya Nadella? Microsoft may be about to get the third CEO in the…
Channel is driving new business growth for NetSuite
Cloud-based business software vendor NetSuite released its fourth quarter and fiscal 2013 results on Thursday, and its…
Hosting company plays up its Canadian roots
With the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal and the USA Patriot Act raising data privacy and…
NSA spying scandal impacting hosting decisions: Peer 1
A study released by Peer 1 Hosting – itself a Canadian hosting company – says that Canadian…
Montreal cloud service provider launches private cloud offering
Montreal-based cloud service provider iWeb has launched a new Microsoft Private Cloud service, giving businesses more cloud-based…