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...
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...
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...
Building bimodal bridges
Gartner has applied a simple framework to complex IT reality. Separating the enterprise into “bimodal” IT operation, Gartner researchers claim that 75 percent of...
Beyond the numbers – tips on building cloud awareness
A web search on cloud adoption rates generates a dazzling array of charts and stats that for years have been telling a familiar story:...
Three types of intelligence and their impact on cloud skills strategy
Since launching in April, the Toronto Cloud Business Coalition (TCBC) has identified 10 key focus areas that are important to the acceleration of cloud...
CenturyLink CSO on defence against the “five bad actors”
Dave Mahon brings impressive credentials to his current position as Chief Security Officer at CenturyLink. Former supervisory special agent with the FBI, Mahon began...
Cloud services going rogue on corporate intranets
For years organizations have been battling silos. Whether it’s the data centre, communications infrastructure or software, over the past decades IT departments have leveraged...
What's in Your e-wallet?
With the increasing popularity of online shopping and electronic wallets, credit card issuers are understandably nervous. Faced with online-friendly products like PayPal, they know...
Defining cloud planning for the SMB
InsightaaS: The Toronto Cloud Business Coalition is a group of professionals from all sectors of the cloud economy - suppliers, intermediaries, IT management, finance professionals, academics...
Cirius gets serious about Azure
Background
Vancouver-based Cirius provides a safe and secure, cloud-based messaging platform. Its flagship product, Cirius Secure Messaging, features email encryption that enables business professionals to...
Last Panacea session explores cloud future
In a fitting farewell to the Reset on the Panacea of Cloud series, presenters at month’s CenturyLink breakfast event talked about the future. A...
VMware builds company and community support for mobile deployments
The mobile revolution is well underway and shows no signs of waning. At the hardware level, smartphone penetration has moved into hyperdrive: according to...
Surface 3 under the reviewer’s eye
Ever since Microsoft launched its Surface tablet line, it has been struggling to capture the hearts of enterprise users. We've been through Surface Pro,...
