Stories by: Rafael Ruffolo

If you're thinking about open sourcing a project in the near future, Mozilla Corp. might be the perfect blueprint to follow.

Canadian data breach notification guidelines -- jointly created by the Information and Privacy Commissioners for British Columbia and Ontario -- have made their way to the land down under.

If your IT projects are consistently late and over budget, chances are you haven't implemented Agile software development practices.

The black market for software vulnerabilities is booming, with bugs regularly being sold for thousands of dollars a piece online. And one of the only ways to reduce this steady stream of hacks, according to Geekonomics author and IT security pro David Rice, is for software companies to simply write better code.

Virtualization will be the biggest driver for IT infrastructure and operations spending over the next several years, according to a report from Gartner.

The widely criticized Microsoft and Novell interoperability agreement has been a success for his company, said Novell CEO Ron Hovespian.

An Ontario hardware reseller has been charged by the RCMP for allegedly selling large quantities of counterfeit Cisco Systems networking equipment.

One of the biggest issues for enterprises considering virtualization is the effect virtual machine deployment could have on their IT security. But with the launch of a new application programming interface, VMware is hoping to address these concerns by enlisting the help of security vendors from around the world.

As made abundantly clear with Friday's announcement, Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bid for search engine Yahoo was driven by the software giant's desire to stay viable in the online advertising market.

Novell hopes the cost benefits associated with its newly announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for IBM System z will help prove to IT managers that the mainframe is not yet a footnote in the history books.