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:...
Big Brother is watching
We tend to think of our phones and computers as personal devices. They live close to our bodies, and are privy to confidential information....
Is peer pressure the answer to addressing the gender gap in tech?
We might think the gender barriers are disappearing in the enterprise workspace, but not much seems to have changed. That was the general consensus...
Cisco building and branding its IoT portfolio
Nothing succeeds like success, but uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. For eight years now, Cisco has mounted an effective campaign to...
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...
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...
Tackling IoT on the Wavefront
In many ways, discourse around the Internet of Things has been framed around devices and data. Visioning of novel business models and use cases...
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...
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...
