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First world problems
As we become more and more dependent on tech, keeping it powered becomes an increasing issue. I attend a lot of conferences, and masses...
Vitamin Y: Dell to acquire EMC
InsightaaS 'Vitamin Y' posts provide concise analysis of industry events and developments. This post examines Dell's record-setting $67 billion acquisition of EMC.
Context: Since becoming...
Infographic: Open source and increasing code complexity
InsightaaS: While InsightaaS itself is dedicated to deep, long-form analysis of important enterprise IT issues, we certainly appreciate the concise insights that can be...
Vitamin Y: HP on the road – showing its new side
Context: Since August 2015, HP has been engaged in a division of the company that will be formalized on November 1st through launch of...
Rogers’ cloud converging mobile and IT
In IT speak, “as-a-Service” has come to stand for ‘instant’ and ‘easy’ – attributes that Rogers stressed in announcing new services aimed at helping...
Interesting survey on cloud within Canadian SMBs
Primus has just released the results of a Canadian survey on SMB cloud use. The survey of 300 SMBs (5-99 employees), conducted by Leger,...
Aaron Dignan: The Operating Model that is Eating the World
InsightaaS: This 2013 post, by digital strategist Aaron Dignan, was nominated as a reference for the TCBC Planning for the Cloud/Cloud Strategy - SMB...
Data modeling puts the intelligence in BI
“IT as an industry has declared war on data modeling for all the wrong reasons,” said Dr. Rado Kotorov, chief innovation officer and VP...
Balancing the scale: cloud and regulation in the banking world
Banks have become technology companies. With massive backend infrastructure to address huge transactional data requirements, extensive operational systems, and increasingly sophisticated customer facing online...
Creating ‘data aware’ culture: Quinte Heath Care
Background:
Quinte Health Care Corporation is comprised of four geographically dispersed hospitals in Hastings and Prince Edward counties of Ontario, which employ a total of...
Cloud and the SMB manufacturer
InsightaaS: SMB manufacturing is an essential segment in the Canadian economy. In 2014, manufacturing was the largest goods-producing sector in Canada, representing $173 billion...
Idiot-proofing the network
Enterprises with proper network infrastructure and the people to manage it, often forget that their mobile users connect from all sorts of less-than-wonderful places....
The great communications divide
The saying goes that talk is cheap. But when it comes to managing an IT project, the wrong talk can mean considerable costs and...
VMware hybrid cloud aims at silencing 'network trombones'
Cloud news at VMworld 2015 confirmed the currency of two themes that have steered the cloud discourse over the past couple of years: the...
VMware driving container coopetition
Is software really eating the world? Certainly a revolutionary conjuncture of trends would suggest this is so. While new digital models are displacing traditional...
