New SDN OS aims to conquer carriers, then competitors
In this companion piece to his exploration of adoption hurdles for network virtualization in carrier and service provider networks, Kevin Fogarty considers some of...
15 for 2015: Channel Trends in the North American IT market
Note to readers: the following post is the product of a joint initiative involving Techaisle president Anurag Agrawal and InsightaaS's Michael O'Neil.
Trends in the...
Setting the bar on data centre best practices
In data centre economics, design is half the battle. Site location, deployment of modular build, state-of-the-art facilities technologies and high efficiency IT equipment have...
Watson in commercial mode
If necessity is the mother of invention, commercialization is its handmaiden. Defined as the process whereby new products are brought to market, commercialization has...
Reconciling the carrier SDN paradox
How does advanced technology go mainstream? In the article below, Kevin Fogarty deals with this (new) age old question in the context of network...
Service management constants
Managing IT and its associated services has been a challenge since Day One. At first, the High Priesthood in its glass house ruled. Supplicants...
Your decision is as good as your data
Our world has become a quantified one, with data serving as the objective measure of truth. While the average consumer is happy to cipher...
“Your company’s biggest risk is everyone in it”
“Are you making it too easy?” was the fundamental question posed at the Toronto launch of a countrywide Dell Security Tour that has taken...
Vitamin Y: a new home for Lenovo Canada
Context: Lenovo cut the ribbon on new headquarters located in Markham, Ontario last week. Designed to house an expanding workforce in a collaborative work...
Encryption key to cloud security
In the article below, Kevin Fogarty picks up cloud where he left it – with colourful discussion of security challenges that starts with the...
Innovate and integrate to connect security
‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ applies to more than stocking up on your vitamins. It is also a sound...
Building information architectures with future scale
Many of the organizations I consult with are looking for dashboards to help them gain better visibility into their data. Most of the time,...
Girls can too code
As I take ‘pen to paper’, an announcement that Karen Sheriff has been named President and CEO of Q9 Networks, a major Canadian provider...
Datacenter Dynamics tours Toronto
Most events in the technology industry are organized around the release of a new product, the opening of a new corporate location, or serve...
3M taking the HPC heat with immersion cooling
The ongoing search for ever more computing power through deployment of ever more powerful servers, combined with increasing constraints on data centre physical space...
