Friday, September 11, 2009

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 11/09/2009



Kitchener integrates GIS into work order system
While a lot of organizations like to boast about their latest technology project as a corporate implementation rather than an IT implementation, often this just ends up being lip service. Find out how one Ontario municipality took a different approach to implementing its city-wide financial and infrastructure management systems
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Obama may tap ex-Clinton aide as security chief
Frank Kramer, an assistant defense secretary under President Bill Clinton, is a front runner for the post of White House cybersecurity boss. Why he may be a surprise choice for industry insiders
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Q&A: Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source clouds
Rich Wolski, UCSB professor and CTO of recently-established Eucalyptus Systems, discusses the company’s first commercial product for the enterprise – an open source private cloud platform that supports Amazon AWS APIs and leverages VMware.
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Allstream takes its fight public
The Manitoba telco is urging organizations to joint its fight to persuade the federal cabinet to overturn a CRTC ruling allowing Bell and Telus to de-regulate high speed services to businesses. Along with ISP and small business allies, it's pushing an online petition to MPs as a way to show politicians it's a hot issue
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City of Winnipeg Water and Waste replaces its mainframes
The City of Winnipeg Water and Waste department just completed phase one of an Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing deployment that got rid of a lengthy paper-based process. Now, phase two will introduce a Web self service for customers. What’s driving utilities organizations to deploy new IT systems
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Exclusive: Canadian results of global IBM CIO study
Big Blue surveys more than 2,500 chief information officers about their role, their challenges and the impact of the bottom line on their priorities. Why you need to be a savvy value creator, an able pragmatist and much more
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Netbook use differs between U.S. and Canada
Chalk up another big difference between Americans and Canadians, says The Strategic Counsel’s Warren Shiau. Find out why the U.S. has latched onto the new form factor, while Canadians continue to lean towards laptops and desktops
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Microsoft rivals eye 22 patents to defend Linux
The Open Invention Network, whose members include IBM and Red Hat, says it wants to defend distributors of open-source operating systems against the threat of patent litigation
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Skype now available for Canuck iPhone users
The VoIP software company appears to have ironed out the patent-licensing issues that kept Canadians from downloading the app when it was made available in April
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