First world problems
As we become more and more dependent on tech, keeping it powered becomes an increasing issue. I attend a lot of conferences, and masses...
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...
Data modeling puts the intelligence in BI
“IT as an industry has declared war on data modeling for all the wrong reasons,” said Dr. Rado Kotorov, chief innovation officer and VP...
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...
Creating ‘data aware’ culture: Quinte Heath Care
Background:
Quinte Health Care Corporation is comprised of four geographically dispersed hospitals in Hastings and Prince Edward counties of Ontario, which employ a total of...
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...
Idiot-proofing the network
Enterprises with proper network infrastructure and the people to manage it, often forget that their mobile users connect from all sorts of less-than-wonderful places....
The great communications divide
The saying goes that talk is cheap. But when it comes to managing an IT project, the wrong talk can mean considerable costs and...
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...
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...
Feeding the output machines
One thing that's kept inkjet printers out of the enterprise is the simple issue of ink. It's expensive, it's a pain in the neck...
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:...
