Solving for cost and performance complexity: Just-in-Time VDI
Imagine the traditional engineering firm circa 2000. To access CAD drawing and other sophisticated engineering software, the engineering professional would need to come into...
The Greater Toronto Area – still good for data centres
Recent announcements lead us to believe that Montreal has become the premier location for data centres in Canada. Amazon recently chose Montreal for its...
General Data Protection Regulation: from the EU with love
If you think that you're safe from needing to be compliant with the European Union's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), think again. If...
DEW 2017: “better together”
A merger can serve many masters: it may be aimed at improving the performance of the target company, consolidating a particular industry, creating or...
Bringing solopreneurs up to speed with AI
The solopreneur has always operated at a disadvantage when it comes to managing his/her business. But technology is evolving to level the playing field...
SDN: networking in the cloud era
Cloud computing is a done deal. Virtually all organizations now use cloud in one form or another: the value proposition of SaaS is no...
Spinning off or building up?
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a year ago that it was spinning off its enterprise services (ES) business and merging it with CSC...
The enterprise data centre – digital disruption or IT transformation?
There has been lots of talk about disruptive innovation and the IT transformation that occurs when “software is eating the world.” Significant progress has...
Getting them young
We keep hearing that millennials want to work with tools that are familiar, as though that were something new. It's not. Everyone leans towards...
New tools for new breach reporting
Information professional professionals across the country have been considering the ramifications of new requirements in Canada’s Digital Privacy Act legislation slated to come into...
Scoping services with CenturyLink, SAP and SEAL
CenturyLink is resolving the ‘build’, ‘buy’ or ‘ally’ conundrum with a simple strategy: it is using them all. In developing its Big Data practice...
Atomwise delivers AI to speed drug discovery
When we think of developments in artificial intelligence (AI), vision processing, autonomous vehicles, search engines and cybersecurity tend to be the first applications that...
Fat fingers
When a large portion of the World Wide Web suddenly ceased to function recently, it was a wakeup call. Fifty-four of the top 100...
IoT security fundamentals: what risk, why care and who’s driving?
The glow surrounding IoT is beginning to fade as organizations come to face one of the key challenges in its implementation – the need...
Technology – a ‘Giving Tree’?
With a masters in economics from the University of Zurich, James Heim worked with a Swiss foundation to bring technology companies to...
