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Canadian women in tech launch multi-million angle investment fund

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(TORONTO, ONTARIO) – A group of Canadian women in technology have launched Phoenix Fire, an angel stage investment fund with a systematic approach to investing...
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52% of women believe their gender is limiting their careers in the tech industry

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Today we can celebrate many great women who have helped shape the world of technology as we know it. From Katherine Johnson, a mathematician...

GCDCS21 – Everything Changed Overnight

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Alex Benay brings a deep knowledge of the evolving digital needs of Canadians from his time spent in the public and private sectors. The...

GCDCS21 – Above and Beyond

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IT managers face a plethora of choice in service delivery mode. End users, partners and customers can be supported out of capacity located in...

GCDCS21 – The Sustainable Present

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What is Net Zero, and how do you get there? Speakers in this year's GCDCS session on sustainability in the data centre had lots...

GCDCS21 – eMasimini for food security

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Shadrack and Pretty Kubyane, co-founders of Coronet Blockchain, have turned their tech talents to a looming food crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a blockchain-based...

GCDCS21 – an All Star cast!

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Always a highlight at the Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium, this year's All Star Plenary Panel featured Paul Cooper (president, Canada, Technology Integration Group),...

Digging into ‘Digital Transformation’ – GCDCS21 morning challenge

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‘Digital transformation’ is a moving target. Described variously by industry watchers as “the adoption of digital technology by a company… to improve efficiency, value...
Eugene Roman, IT leader at Canadian Tire, OpenText and Bell

GCDCS21 – The Fast Rise of the Digital Age

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The Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium 2021 launched last week with a thought provoking keynote from IT management legend Eugene Roman. Through executive IT...

Biden Leaders Summit leads on Earth Day

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The first day of Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate fell on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2021. The speaker list included 28 heads of state...

Beating the odds on gender stats: Schneider’s Susan Uthayakumar on diversity, sustainability and paying...

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Women’s experience in the technology world is a mixed bag. Despite years of focus on barriers to broader engagement of women in ICT, efforts...

Motivating mind shift: 4 keys to meaningful environmental management

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With global temperatures on a roiling boil, broad awareness of the potential impacts of climate change and the need for mitigation and adaption efforts...

Responding to critical DC care needs

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At an Intel Experience presentation held in Toronto last fall to showcase use cases for new chip capabilities, Scott Overson, GM of Intel’s Enterprise...
Data centre options in a post-Brexit world

Digital experience beyond the network edge

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With the exponential rise in distributed multi-cloud computing, IT monitoring and management has pushed network optimization beyond the edge – literally and figuratively. Today’s...

Open Solidarity to address COVID-19 crisis

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We hear quite a bit about ‘tech for the good’ – technology’s unique ability to support social, cultural or environmental progress. We also hear...