Where automation meets SDDC
The DC Foresight community – headed by analyst firm InsightaaS and supported by Intel’s Data Centre Manager group – released a new research paper,...
A look back on GCDCS19 – and a look ahead to GCDCS20
GCDCS19 established the Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium as the premier data centre event in Canada, and placed it firmly within the ranks of...
Celtic phoenix rising on data centre wings
The Celtic phoenix continues to rise, borne high on the wings of blistering investment in Ireland’s data centre industry. In the decade ending in...
New Digital Realty interconnect platform to enable “centres of data exchange”
What is a ‘platform’ and what is its source of performance? A seemingly simple term that is used in IT with increasing frequency to...
The Software-Defined Future
Continuing on from our enthusiastically-received 'Summer Scan' series, we are pleased to highlight sessions from the 2019 Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium (GCDCS19), delivered...
Summer Scan: Thought leadership packaged for deck or dock
The InsightaaS “Summer Scan” series provides data centre community professionals with a summer-weight way of scanning the ideas shaping the industry.
Each Summer Scan session...
Data centres are hot stuff
Data centres are hot. Really hot.
Literally. And that's a problem.
So said speakers at the 2019 Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium. Power and cooling came...
Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium 2019 – moving to the edge
Data centre and digital transformation experts and practitioners gathered at The McMaster Innovation Park in Hamilton on June 20th for a day of thought-provoking...
New DC Foresight report on the ‘Compute Factory’
A new report, Industrialization of the Data Centre: the Compute Factory, boasts deep and extensive roots. The report was created and edited over several...
Inaugural Canadian Data Centre Excellence Awards celebrate innovation in the Canadian industry
Capping months of research that involved extensive outreach to more than 150 suppliers and hundreds of Canadian data centre professionals, InsightaaS and McMaster University's...
Data Gravity in the Public Sector report released in advance of GCDCS19
InsightaaS is delighted to announce that it has released the first DC Foresight community report, Data Gravity in the Public Sector.
Sponsored by the Technology...
VMware Canada: building culture, portfolio sales, and partnerships
As with other members of the Dell EMC 'federation', VMware is managing a tightrope of opportunity, looking to put in place the resources needed...
Beauharnois data centre a model of OVH DIY scale
Renowned for their talent in pushing the envelope on data centre innovation, the hyperscale infrastructure providers pose a challenging conundrum to consumers of data...
Canada’s climate action plan wants you
Climate change predictions can make pessimists of the optimists among us. In the most recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released...
IBM Acquires Red Hat – What does it mean, and to whom?
Note: InsightaaS recently collaborated with Techaisle on an analysis of IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat. Here is the text of the resulting...
