Tuesday, March 20, 2012

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 3/20/2012





Interview: Global mobility risks
RADIO ITWC Fiaaz Walji, Websense Canadian Country Manager, joins the podcast to talk about the Global Study on Mobility Risks and where Canada fits in to the landscape

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Toronto conference discusses Internet control
International security and Internet experts will debate whether cyberspace needs to be policed in an era of increasing online criminal and military use

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Canadian social business firm powers IDC Insights
The small Kitchener company is entirely cloud-based, making it nimble enough to deliver a proof-of-concept faster than its rivals, an exec says. Find out why IDC chose the little guy

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Alcatel to give switch ‘mulimedia fluency’
Coming software upgrades will let switch detect SIP-based traffic and individual users so Quality of Service terms can be applied

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Google Docs integration added to Google+ hangouts
Google says users can collaborate on multiple documents at once, all while using Google+ video chat.

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No unified stack soon for big data
Hadoop and other big data tools need a standardized software stack to deploy more easily, experts agreed at a GigaOm panel

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We need good code, cryptographer says
BLACK HAT EUROPE Cryptography pioneer Whitfield Diffie says better code is safer. It's also too expensive

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MAILBAG: Jobs, disasters, spectrum and lofty goals
Our weekly roundup of reader views on wireless spectrum, IT jobs, cloud disaster recovery and goal-setting for a senior vice-president

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Avaya expands videoconferencing line
Radivison's enterprise video infrastructure and endpoints will be integrated with Avaya's Aura unified communications platform

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Cisco to buy video content distribution company
Cisco will spend US$5 billion to bolster its bet on video, buying British-based NDS

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Salesforce.com rolls out Rypple, revamps tools
Brand name of employee performance tracking application to be kept. Also, the company will announce an update to its Web site building tools

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IT stressed over cloud, video bandwidth demands
International survey suggests a "storm" is coming over the fight to meet bandwidth demands and keep tabs on the performance of new technologies

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Meru unveils virtualized WLAN infrastructure
Manufacturer put VMware wrapper around its operating system. The result elimiates the need for hardware controllers and other appliances in branch offices

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Telus now offers full managed mobile services
Carrier teams with U.S. services provider to offer enterprises the ability to outsource configuration, management and analysis of mobile devices

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NetBase adds new capabilities to social media analysis platform
The company now has a library of widgets that can be combined into custom dashboards

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IBM user group: Most firms don't collect social media info
Three out of four companies don't use data for business purposes, according to survey

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SAP ports HANA to its financial planning app
It's the latest move by SAP to seed HANA throughout its product portfolio

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Next Hadoop confirms data as a platform
Hadoop could become much more than just a storage system

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Ottawa to put limits on 700 MHz spectrum auction
The big carriers didn't get the open auction they want, but new operators also didn't get the opportunity to buy all of the spectrum themselves

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How IT leaders should mentor their 'brogrammers'
OPINION They look hot. They act cool. They write software between beers. CIOs and IT managers have a new breed of staff, and you'd better not call them geeks

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U.S. cybersecurity legislation gains another strong backer
Cabinet minister adds his voice, saying businesses will remain vulnerable to foreign corporate espionage without comprehensive legislative reform

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Domain seizures for copyright breach to go global
ICANN promises to co-operate closer with governments and law enforcement agencies at the organization's international conference

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On the job with the White House CIO
Old PCs, no redundant data centre, email server crashing regularly -- does this sound familiar? Read how the rookie chief information officer met the challenge

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WATCH: HP Technology Services announcement 1 PM ET
HP says new support portfolio will "help you achieve higher yields within your business"

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Corporations pick iPad 10-to-1 over other tablets
Key to the device's continuing popularity is user satisfaction, according to a survey of businesses

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Avaya’s new network chief has ‘lofty goals’
Marc Randall wants the company to be in third place in network equipment sales by 2014. Read why industry analysts say its an uphill fight

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IBM mainframe automation on a tight budget
Ottawa-based Exspans Systems Inc. provides ultra-low cost IBM mainframe automation software to those in need

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