Saturday, February 27, 2010

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 27/02/2010



Ingres to move open source database to beta
VectorWise technology improves data-intensive workloads such as data warehousing apps, at a rate of 10 to 100 times, reports Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt. Beta release expected in March
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CA buys 3Tera, expands cloud computing
VP of business unit strategy Jay Fry explains how the acquisition of 3Tera will fit into CA’s overall cloud strategy and recent acquisitions of Oblicore and Cassatt
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Sunnybrook digitizes patient records
Toronto-based Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is deploying enterprise content management technology from CGI Group in the final stage of a long-term strategy to digitize patient records. Six thousand medical practitioners and support staff will have access to the electronic files
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40/100G Ethernet needed, but too pricey
"We want the race car without paying race car prices," the head of the Ethernet Alliance told a conference this week. But 40G products are expected to hit the market in the spring, with prices falling after that
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Comcast launches DNS security trial
The American cable firm plans to digitally sign all of its own domain names using Domain Naming System Security Extensions by the first quarter of 2011. DNSSEC is one way of preventing cache poisoning attacks, in which hackers spoof legitimate Web sites. Rogers Communications Inc. has “no immediate plansâ€‌ to install DNSSEC in its network while Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. was tight-lipped
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Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum may close
A loosely organized group dedicated to preventing vendor lock-in may have served its purpose, according to its Toronto-based founder. What the future holds for open standards for enterprise-class clouds
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Virtualization should be 3D: DataCore
DataCore Software is evangelizing a virtualization strategy that entails server, desktop and storage concurrently from the outset to avoid performance bottlenecks. IDC Canada’s Dave Pearson calls storage virtualization the “supportâ€‌ technology
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Gartner releases 2010 end user predictions
A new set of predictions by Gartner foresees that 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets by 2012. This is not just about the data centre; user PCs will also be part of an infrastructure service
Read More ...

Ingres to move open source database to beta
VectorWise technology improves data-intensive workloads such as data warehousing apps, at a rate of 10 to 100 times, reports Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt. Beta release expected in March
Read More ...

CA buys 3Tera, expands cloud computing
VP of business unit strategy Jay Fry explains how the acquisition of 3Tera will fit into CA’s overall cloud strategy and recent acquisitions of Oblicore and Cassatt
Read More ...

Sunnybrook digitizes patient records
Toronto-based Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is deploying enterprise content management technology from CGI Group in the final stage of a long-term strategy to digitize patient records. Six thousand medical practitioners and support staff will have access to the electronic files
Read More ...

40/100G Ethernet needed, but too pricey
"We want the race car without paying race car prices," the head of the Ethernet Alliance told a conference this week. But 40G products are expected to hit the market in the spring, with prices falling after that
Read More ...

Comcast launches DNS security trial
The American cable firm plans to digitally sign all of its own domain names using Domain Naming System Security Extensions by the first quarter of 2011. DNSSEC is one way of preventing cache poisoning attacks, in which hackers spoof legitimate Web sites. Rogers Communications Inc. has “no immediate plansâ€‌ to install DNSSEC in its network while Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. was tight-lipped
Read More ...

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum may close
A loosely organized group dedicated to preventing vendor lock-in may have served its purpose, according to its Toronto-based founder. What the future holds for open standards for enterprise-class clouds
Read More ...

Virtualization should be 3D: DataCore
DataCore Software is evangelizing a virtualization strategy that entails server, desktop and storage concurrently from the outset to avoid performance bottlenecks. IDC Canada’s Dave Pearson calls storage virtualization the “supportâ€‌ technology
Read More ...

Gartner releases 2010 end user predictions
A new set of predictions by Gartner foresees that 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets by 2012. This is not just about the data centre; user PCs will also be part of an infrastructure service
Read More ...

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