Serverless computing – no servers, really?
Serverless is one of the more interesting developments in cloud computing. The serverless cloud story began back in 2014 with Amazon launch of AWS...
The Network Intuitive = the network as code
What if your network could know what you want to do before you do? How would network value change if you could program it?...
The Greater Toronto Area – still good for data centres
Recent announcements lead us to believe that Montreal has become the premier location for data centres in Canada. Amazon recently chose Montreal for its...
DEW 2017: “better together”
A merger can serve many masters: it may be aimed at improving the performance of the target company, consolidating a particular industry, creating or...
The quantum computing mystique
Talk to those in the quantum computing arena and you will either be enlightened or confused on any given day. At times the language...
The enterprise data centre – digital disruption or IT transformation?
There has been lots of talk about disruptive innovation and the IT transformation that occurs when “software is eating the world.” Significant progress has...
451 Research: OCP Summit 2017. A maturing hardware ecosystem still needs a spark for...
The Open Compute Project’s celebration of its ninth annual summit begs two observations: while interest in this initiative remains high, it’s not clear how...
Technology – a ‘Giving Tree’?
With a masters in economics from the University of Zurich, James Heim worked with a Swiss foundation to bring technology companies to...
Vitamin Y: More on merger – Dell EMC culture, customers and competition
Context: Dell EMC has taken its merger message on the road with pit stops in major Canadian cities. Last week, the company touched down...
Dell EMC World 2016 – a study in integration
One strain of management theory holds that the success of an acquisition depends on the speed and efficiency with which the new business is...
Data centre options in a post-Brexit world
In a recent conversation with a senior executive at a rapidly expanding, Toronto-based cloud provider, an inevitable point of discussion was European expansion. Like...
451 Research: The Open Compute Project; open is one thing, interoperable is another
In IT parlance, “open” is often used synonymously with interoperable, but is that really end of story? In this special report presented below, 451...
Containers FTW
The cloud was built on virtualization. It allows maximum use of hardware in a cost-effective way, and helps providers support customers while protecting them...
Equinix IOA unlocks global opportunity for big business in Canada
When the Canadian market beckoned, Equinix responded with the opening of a new US$100 million International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in the heart...
Hydro delivers a DC power boost
La belle province is the new darling of the Canadian data centre industry. Driven by growing appetite for data centre services associated with the...
