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CenturyLink builds in central Washington
CenturyLink is on the move again, this time into central Washington with this month’s announcement of a new data centre at Moses Lake. Designed...
ATN Infographic: All about logos and branding
InsightaaS: ATN used to run a new infographic each Sunday. I've fallen out of the habit recently, but decided to revive it (at least...
Wavefront Summit 2015 trains eyes on IoT
The Internet of Things is a moving target that defies tidy description. Essentially a technology-enabled solutions approach to solving problems, IoT is comprised of...
Location analytics ‘how to’
Technology has long been labelled an enabler of business success. But as more and more companies come to recognize how important transition to the...
What will it take for Canadian enterprises to win the innovation fight?
Age of disruption: Are Canadian firms prepared? is the latest installment in Deloitte Canada’s Future of Canada series. This particular report looks at how...
TechRepublic: Gartner declares IaaS race decided, AWS wins
InsightaaS: Much has been written about Gartner's recent take on the IaaS market (including a brief piece that I published in the TCBC forum on LinkedIn)....
Beyond Convergence 1.0: the Nutanix private cloud-in-a-box
Converged infrastructure is attracting a lot of attention in industry circles as the key means to reducing IT complexity in the data centre. But...
Drawing the lines between Collabmobilicloud
Is cloud a solution? Are collaboration and mobility technology outcomes? Or is a solution the answer to a user’s problems? Increasingly, in a new...
Adapting renewable energy to the data centre
Context: do renewables have a place in the data centre environment?
Interest in renewables is driven by two key requirements: environmental sustainability and energy savings....
CSA launches new certification
As the cloud becomes more and more a part of our IT world, the elephant in the room emerges: security. Companies have held back...
451 Research: Cloud Price Index – Private Edition, Part 3: the best value TCO...
InsightaaS: Back in December, InsightaaS reported on a new 451 Research initiative designed to determine baseline costs for different cloud delivery models. At the...
Frameworks and culture in Roadmaps to Cloud Success
A book as the source of knowledge in a world of digital communication? Surely not! In fact, not one, but two books served as...
When should organizations consider predictive analytics?
Many organizations have been leveraging Business Intelligence (BI) for years and are slowly taking advantage of Big Data platforms to gain access to diverse...
Solving for the data science conundrum
Across the industry spectrum, data is now extolled as the fount of new insight into market opportunity and operational excellence. Better collection, management and...
Dell XPS 13 review
Dell's new model of its XPS 13 Ultrabook is undeniably a gem. It was named the best consumer notebook at this year's Consumer Electronics...
