DC for less than the price of power?
Notwithstanding the industry’s fixation on growth in cloud services markets, the colocation business is alive and well. While many individual players are executing on...
Vitamin Y: An alliance analysis of IBM/Apple
Context: On July 15, Apple and IBM announced a "global partnership to transform enterprise mobility." It spanned several different areas of collaboration: "industry-specific enterprise...
Building cloud security from the end up
In the spring of 2009, Gartner identified data security as one of the top five inhibitors to broader adoption of cloud computing. Research commissioned...
Automation overdrive: from IaaS to Blueprint engine
"Automation is the lifeblood of cloud," according to David Shacochis. "It’s like liquidity in the financial sphere — if we had to barter and...
Who can you trust?
Technology, like any tool, can be used well or badly. Sometimes the bad is malicious, and sometimes it's just the result of laziness, carelessness,...
Heartbleed should be making you sweat
It’s been a couple of months since news of the Heartbleed vulnerability first spawned global near-hysteria. The bug, which sat virtually unnoticed on approximately...
Spambots say the nicest things
During the course of our first year, InsightaaS.com has marked a number of milestones. We’ve published more than 400 posts. With the help of...
Building support for cloud adoption
For users of IT, cloud entails new ways of thinking about the acquisition and consumption of technology. But if properly understood and managed, cloud’s...
IoT Has Arrived
The Internet of Things (or, as Cisco likes to call it, the Internet of Everything) is apparently close to hitting that inflection point. Cloud...
Digitization driving healthcare necessity and invention
A key beneficiary of the transformative impact of IT, healthcare is undergoing massive change. Like many other industries, this sector is renovating to set...
CTS managed services now "cloudified"
Is ‘IT-as-a-service’ a creature of vendor marketing departments or reality for consumers of IT today? As with most definitional questions in the world of...
HP betting on open to drive market wedge
Networking is a double edged sword. The conduit to cloud, networking complexity has also lingered as a check on progress towards greater data centre...
Discover 2014 a showcase for Apollo, Sharks, HPC and The Machine
"We are back!" Meg Whitman proclaimed from the main stage of this year’s HP Discover conference in Las Vegas this week. Referring obliquely to...
Vitamin Y: Goin’ down the Canadian Road
Context: CDW rolled its Technoliner into Canadian territory this week, launching its Canada tour with a debut performance in Toronto’s downtown lakefront district. Built...
Experience on the Hoof
Every year or so, another hot catchword infests the industry. It may actually be something new and different, or it may just be marketing,...
