Revving the cloud innovation engine at VMworld 2017
Channeling tech visioning from the popular sci-fi film Aliens, “Beam me up” molecular transport from Star Trek, current experimentation with Quantum entanglement and modification...
Mind the gap: crossing the Canadian cloud divide
On the flip side of the tech world’s bleeding edge lie early, and early majority adopters who have the resources in place to capitalize...
Vitamin Y: building the AWS Canada ecosystem
Context:
As part of ongoing efforts to promote the progress of cloud, Canadian AWS Premier Consulting Partner TriNimbus Technologies hosted an event this June...
CenturyLink takes Managed Security Services 2.0 to APAC
Not all markets are created equal; and not every sales approach will resonate with certain audiences. This was something that CenturyLink kept in mind...
CL Managed Enterprise to manage Meraki
Managed services are emerging as an increasingly popular approach to addressing IT complexity. By outsourcing day-to-day IT management and technical support requirements, businesses solve...
Government contractors starting to embrace the containers application development movement
Containers Represent Welcome Leap Forward for Mission-Critical DoD Vendors
This article – special to InsightaaS – was submitted by Wes Caldwell, CTO of Polaris Alpha....
VMware Canada – new path forward
Sean Forkan has a degree in engineering from McMaster University but has spent most of his professional career in consulting, sales and management roles....
Solving for cost and performance complexity: Just-in-Time VDI
Imagine the traditional engineering firm circa 2000. To access CAD drawing and other sophisticated engineering software, the engineering professional would need to come into...
SDN: networking in the cloud era
Cloud computing is a done deal. Virtually all organizations now use cloud in one form or another: the value proposition of SaaS is no...
451 Research: Enterprise file sync and share down but not out
InsightaaS: Discussions of cloud storage often revolve around price and the 'race to the bottom'. Yet research shows that file storage and sharing is...
Scoping services with CenturyLink, SAP and SEAL
CenturyLink is resolving the ‘build’, ‘buy’ or ‘ally’ conundrum with a simple strategy: it is using them all. In developing its Big Data practice...
Fat fingers
When a large portion of the World Wide Web suddenly ceased to function recently, it was a wakeup call. Fifty-four of the top 100...
451 Research: Google Cloud Next 2017 – Is Google’s pricing a clear and present...
InsightaaS: With buzz mounting around Google's entry to Canada - challenging AWS and Azure in hyperscale, and complicating value propositions for local CSPs - we...
Community cloud – Laval’s experiment in social tech
Background
Since founding in 1663, Université Laval has worked to build a global reputation for high quality, comprehensive educational programming, research excellence and outreach to...
Three keys to managed services innovation
Sitting midpoint between public cloud and reliance on on-premise IT resources, managed services are an increasingly attractive alternative for the delivery of IT services....
