In Canadian cloud, plus ça change
Over the past year, the cloud marketplace in Canada has experienced profound change. While XaaS adoption has accelerated across the size and industry spectrum,...
AWS Canada live
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Amazon Web Services went live with its new Canada (Central) Region last week and is pumped to deliver a range of services out of...
University of Toronto SCS adds new ‘Cloud Systems in Practice’ advanced course to its...
Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous. 2016 research from Techaisle found that 80% of US small businesses and 100% of firms with 500+ employees are...
“Building Cloud Value” – a review
It seems fitting that a guidebook about today’s most pervasive and powerful business technology should have been put together in an innovative manner. The...
Big Data-as-a-Service takes shape in Canada
CenturyLink Technology Solutions is undergoing metamorphosis. Like many organizations that entered the data centre business a half decade ago or so, the company is...
Is Blockchain the key to our IoT security future?
There are plenty of proponents who see Blockchain as more than a platform for the financial institutions of this world. Consultant Mark Kovarski is...
Hub spinning for Agile Analytics
Big Data promises a wealth of riches in the form of new insight into operational processes and business opportunity. But for many organizations, the...
DCD 2016 dives deeper into cloud
Conversations at this year’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged/Cloud Symposium shifted from discussion of general trends in cloud deployment to more laser focus on factors that...
Cross-Cloud across Canada
Shawn Rosemarin’s experience in the tech industry has been broad and deep. His career spans implementation with SAP and sales with IBM and Dell,...
‘Physical spaces’ swell analytics case arsenal
The market for Big Data/Analytics products and services is poised for a dramatic shift up into overdrive. As cloud-based storage prices contract, and new...
VMworld 2016 – the 4 cloud ‘Rs’
“Nonsense” is Pat Gelsinger’s response to the hype around digital business, which calls on enterprises to place sole focus on a new style of...
IT-in-the-service of business: a cost equation
The IT leader today wears a heavy crown. Supporting a vocal end user community that has consumer aspirations for instant-on IT, he/she is also...
Microsecond speed in new financial fabric
Imagine a global fabric that connects all financial and capital markets, linking buyers and sellers to each other through one large, secure networking pipe....
Vitamin Y: a Dell cloud – IoT update
Context: Dell’s acquisition of EMC has cast a long shadow. Since announcement last October of this major milestone in the company’s decade long quest...
Conquering the complexities of hybrid environment configuration management
In the IT industry, “the future is hybrid” is one of the few declarations that draws nearly-unanimous support. Research, including an InsightaaS survey of...
