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(September 6) From above, the warehouses look as nondescript as a Costco. But inside they house the backbones of some of today’s biggest, most important companies. As online services like cloud computing grow, and people move to store more of their lives online, the push is on to build ever more ...

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(August 29/2012) MONTREAL - Virtual assistants are never in a bad mood. And they can repeat basic information over and over and over without changing the message, unlike employees who can be unpredictable at times. These digital helpers are now starting to be found on websites for governments,...

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(Aug 14/2012) After more than a dozen years as an IT consultant, much of it helping big businesses keep their software up to date, Alex Topitsch decided to build a better mousetrap. In 2010 he started Futurestate IT, which helps corporate customers keep desktop applications current and curb th...

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(July 31/2012) Some people seem to live on their smartphones. Such is the case at the University of Pittsburgh, where many of its employees rely heavily on the devices to access information, connect with other staffers and manage their calendars. Richard McIver, senior systems administrator fo...

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While most school districts are grappling with how to best manage and secure mobile devices, few have the challenge that the IT department at McAllen Independent School District in Texas is facing. As part of an initiative to transform learning in the district, every student, teacher and administ...

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(June 12, 2012) Following calls for a public cloud hosted on this side of border, Savvis Inc. on Tuesday announced the availability of its Symphony VPDC (virtual private data centre) in Canada. Symphony is part of a class of public clouds that provide additional layers of data security. They a...

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(June 4, 2012) First, it was the veritable explosion in mobile computing. That led, rather naturally, to the proliferation of BYOD policies. So it probably doesn't come as a shock that mobile networks are now subject to the same cybersecurity risks as traditional wired networks. What may come ...

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(25-May-2012) Document file sharing and storage are still Box’s raison d'être, but the company has rolled out new management features specifically for IT admins that may push Box ahead of the pack of vendors vying to be the enterprise alternative to Dropbox. Box released new enterprise-friendl...

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(16-May-2012) In this electronic world, keeping documents and records should be simple. It’s all there on our computers, easily searched and retrieved. But proper record-keeping isn’t always easy. Compatibility issues mean electronic documents aren’t necessarily there when you want them. Lost ...

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