Cloud interoperability and portability – necessary or nice to have?
Cloud computing is a done deal according to a recent InsightaaS article. Many enterprises are now using at least four distinct IT environments, including...
Blockchain taking the legal route
Blockchain is spreading its wings, as the distributed ledger technology gains traction beyond early iterations in the cryptocurrency realm. In recent months, more industries...
The Internet in 2017 – is it broken yet?
The Internet Society celebrated 25 years of work to “promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all...
Collecting, collaborating and coordinating – data in the public sector
Dashboards, and panels and labs, oh my! Donning a different dress with new topics, new industry participants and new session formats, this year’s Information...
BadRabbit and other vermin
There's a BadRabbit in town, and it's slamming European media outlets, as well as transportation and government organizations in the Ukraine and Russia. Some...
Blockchain growing beyond roots in cryptocurrency
At the latest Sibos financial services event in Toronto, Interac AVP for Mobile Product and Platform Development Oscar Roque led a presentation with Alectra...
Cyber Security Month – books to build awareness
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month in Canada, an internationally recognized campaign aimed at informing the public on the importance of cyber security, and...
How can we fix stupid?
Hanlon's Razor says, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." In the wake of the Equifax data breach, 145.5 million...
Reinventing IaaS adaptation
Cloud adoption is an exercise in adaptation; as individuals have come to think with a keyboard beneath their fingertips to advance communications, cloud users...
Serverless computing – no servers, really?
Serverless is one of the more interesting developments in cloud computing. The serverless cloud story began back in 2014 with Amazon launch of AWS...
Moving print to 3 dimensions
When you think about 3D printing, what do you picture? Cute little toys? Hobbyists? Printers with huge coils of plastic attached? If so, you're...
ReMAPping value networks: only in Canada, eh?
Software may be eating the world, but when combined with hardware, it has potential to unleash new productive capacity, while ensuring that the fruits...
Revving the cloud innovation engine at VMworld 2017
Channeling tech visioning from the popular sci-fi film Aliens, “Beam me up” molecular transport from Star Trek, current experimentation with Quantum entanglement and modification...
Fintech gaining serious street cred
Fintech has become a major entry in the buzzword lexicon in recent years. While not a new concept – in fact, some consider fintech...
Mind the gap: crossing the Canadian cloud divide
On the flip side of the tech world’s bleeding edge lie early, and early majority adopters who have the resources in place to capitalize...
