HPE persists with Persistent Memory
Computer memory, aka RAM (random access memory), comes with pluses and minuses. It's fast, and because it's snuggled up to the CPU, there's not...
Microsoft brings Canadian Azure to early adopters
A (r) evolutionary conjuncture of factors has culminated in Canadian-based, Microsoft cloud resource lift-off. First announced last June, Canadian cloud capability has finally come...
They’re doing what?? Microsoft open play
Microsoft has been startling people right and left this month, and Microsoft watchers are having a lot of fun. Or not, depending on their...
Yitamin Y: How open is open, and when is open too open?
Context:
Dell Canada recently invited InsightaaS and other IT journalists to a presentation designed to establish Dell thought leadership on IT infrastructure challenges facing the...
Review and forecast: did IT live up to the hype in 2015, and what’s...
Analysts: Mary Allen (InsightaaS), Anurag Agrawal (Techaisle), Michael O’Neil (InsightaaS)
December has traditionally served as the occasion for the publication of New Year forecasts. It’s...
Vitamin Y: Dell to acquire EMC
InsightaaS 'Vitamin Y' posts provide concise analysis of industry events and developments. This post examines Dell's record-setting $67 billion acquisition of EMC.
Context: Since becoming...
Vitamin Y: HP on the road – showing its new side
Context: Since August 2015, HP has been engaged in a division of the company that will be formalized on November 1st through launch of...
Rogers’ cloud converging mobile and IT
In IT speak, “as-a-Service” has come to stand for ‘instant’ and ‘easy’ – attributes that Rogers stressed in announcing new services aimed at helping...
Micro data centres doing the bridgework for IoT
The fight for data centre efficiency is a never ending one. Yet despite the best laid plans, data centre architectures continue to go through...
451 Research: Schneider Electric dances on its toes in response to changing datacenter demand
While the single cloud is no longer on the futurists’ radar, in their research into Schneider Electric’s evolving data centre strategy presented below, 451...
Medium voltage AC: Big Data? ‘Big Power’ isn’t far behind
Context: an evolving standard for power distribution
Data center operators are under intense pressure to maximize the efficiency of data centers. To maintain competitiveness in...
Revisiting the open organization
As former president of IDC Canada and marketing director with the Canada Systems Group, reviewer Paul Kennedy has long term experience with both technology...
Microgrids: integration for power cost and control
Context: microgrid and data center synergies
Autonomous energy networks that integrate distributed power resources, matching this with local energy loads to service localized demand, microgrids...
Vitamin Y: Bell Canada’s big fibre play
Context: As part of a plan to invest $20 billion in developing broadband fibre and wireless networks across Canada by 2020, Bell Canada has...
ABB and InsightaaS release “The Shamrock Accords”
ABB and InsightaaS have combined to produce a new report that consolidates insights from a diverse group of data center professionals examining the business...
