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Last July , we talked on the IT Manager Podcast series about how high performance computing (HPC) is moving from the exclusive realm of academic and large company research and becoming accessible for mid-sized companies. We're seeing all sorts of commercial
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One of the first major IT projects that I took a lead role in was to roll out a new email client application to approximately 300 workstations. It was a tremendously daunting task as there were no automated tools at the time (this was in the mid 90's)
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Once upon a time, securing your IT environment meant sticking a firewall between your network and the Internet. These days there's a lot more to it. IT security needs to be implemented on multiple levels and actively managed which makes things a tad more
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Business is getting more and more competitive and many organizations are looking to be able to get an edge by collecting data and analyzing it to make better business decisions. One company may want look at weather patterns to better stock their stores
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My first job in IT landed me at a company in the mid 90's that made fax software. It was, in fact, the first company to make such a product and it was a surprise runaway hit. A surprise mainly because the company's main focus was electronic forms software
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Perhaps easy in the title should be replaced with easier . After all, deploying a new desktop operating system is still not as simple as a mere push of a button and it's still not a job to give to your grade school nephew. Easy is a relative term. However,
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We're just in the final days of the IT Executive Roadmap Tour , with Rick touring Halifax, myself visiting Quebec City and Damir finishing up in Calgary and then Edmonton this coming Wednesday. We've had fun presenting with Rob Davidson and Ian Watson,
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Remember the old days of WordPerfect? I was a WP whiz when I was in school, mostly because I could remember all the key sequences that would let me use the features really efficiently. I don't even think there was a mouse with it - it was all key strokes.
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Traditionally, high performance computing (HPC) has been regulated to the realm of academia. Researchers use it when they need the ability to do some serious number crunching in order to complete years of processing in just days or to visualize complex
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There seems to be a story in the news every day about a company whose computer systems have been breached and client information has been leaked. It's every IT manager's worst fear. This month's podcast from the IT Manager Podcast Series has industry
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There is constant pressure for IT managers to deliver reliable IT services and this pressure has only increased over the years as 24x7 access to critical business applications has become excepted as the "norm". This month in the IT Managers Podcast series
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Once a month, Barnaby Jeans has been publishing podcasts on IT trends and technology issues. This month, he talks to Derick Wong from Microsoft Canada and Jeff Kent from Cineplex Entertainment about the evolution of network management. The interview is
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Once a month, Barnaby Jeans has been publishing podcasts on IT trends and technology issues. This month, he talks to Stephen Ibaraki from the Canadian Information Processing Society & Bruce Cowper from Microsoft Canada about the top security trends
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This month in the IT Manager Podcast series I talk to Bill Buxton from Microsoft Research, Bryan Rusche from Microsoft Canada, and Evan Zaleschuk from MTS Allstream about unified communications and whether it will change the way Canadians work. For more
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Earlier this month , I mentioned that I'd be posting the first interview in our IT Manager Podcast Series. Today my interview with Greg Mathieu from Business Information Group, and Rodney Buike from Microsoft Canada, is available for download in either
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