IBM launches lineup of new SMB servers for big data

IBM Corp. is releasing eight new servers in its Power Systems lineups that are targeted at small to mid-sized businesses looking to tap into big data applications and cloud storage technology, the firm

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 13th, 2013 Brian Jackson

How to scale your video sharing service to handle 6 million users in 30 days

Who doesn’t have time to watch a 36 second long video? Not many people it turns out, as the Toronto-based video sharing service Keek has proven by registering six million users in just

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 13th, 2013 Brian Jackson

OnLive woes show challenges of cloud startups

It was a long weekend for California-based cloud video games firm OnLive, and not the good kind. On Friday, an e-mail went out to all the employees at the firm were told they'd

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 20th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Internet shifts to new IPv6 protocol

Today, a new protocol goes live on much of the Internet as IPv6 permanently replaces IPv4 on more than 1,000 Web sites, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and other major Web brands.One year ago,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 6th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Chatsworth Products opens first Canadian sales office

Toronto-area IT professionals looking to organize their server rooms and hide their cabling will have one more vendor to choose from, as Chatsworth Products Inc. (CPI) opened a sales office in Vaughn, Ont

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 23rd, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Should You Feel Bad About Blocking Online Ads?

 by Claudiu Popa I'm not a fan of banner ads, browser pop-ups nor of what's come to be called behavioural advertising. I find that such promotion largely falls into two categories. The kind

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 12th, 2012 Claudiu Popa

Squeeze more space out of your current hard drive

Recent flooding in Thailand has affected many hard drive manufacturers, resulting in price hikes for hard drives of as much as 50 to 100 per cent. How long this will last is unclear,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 24th, 2011 Logan Harbaugh

Centralized dictation system cures problems from Manitoba doctors

A centralized dictation system that stores digital audio files on an on-premises server is just what the doctor ordered for a small health centre in Winkler, Manitoba that was bent on reducing lost

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 28th, 2011 Nestor Arellano

Micron’s entry-level SSD for blade servers

Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive (SSD) aimed at being used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applications, such as video streaming in cloud computing

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 16th, 2011 Lucas Mearian

New Mac minis pack performance into tiny package

With the Mac mini (Mid 2010), released in June 2010, Apple gave its smallest Mac an aesthetic overhaul, replacing the chunky, aluminum-and-white-plastic 2009 model with a sleek, aluminum-unibody model that was easier to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 4th, 2011 Dan Frakes

Need to get off the cloud?

Cloud computing platforms aim to improve IT's ability to be agile. For instance, cloud platforms let you quickly build and install applications, and change the resources underneath later to make them run better.Once

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 7th, 2011 Kevin Fogarty

Felt maker saves $100K with server virtualization

A scheduled hardware refresh was the perfect time for an Ontario felt company to trim its server farm and wrap its IT systems under a new virtualized environment.Mississauga, Ont.-based Brand Felt Ltd. was

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 1st, 2011 Nestor Arellano

Cloud replication lowers DR time, cost for SMBs

Managed Internet Protocol services are an ideal solution for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) looking for affordable corporate grade data recovery and business continuity systems, according to technology experts.cloud replication

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 9th, 2011 Nestor Arellano

Amazon’s EC2 cloud service dinged by Gartner rating

Gartner's Magic Quadrant report has placed Amazon's cloud computing service in one of its lower tiers, saying that for all of Amazon's commercial success it is "visionary" but "unproven." Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 14th, 2011 Jon Brodkin