Mining Watson for data gold
Oft cited as the blow that is knocking the wind out of the services business, AI has flexed its disruptive muscle. While Uber’s advanced...
Digital transformation – new capability or new core?
For the past while, pundits have been telling us that every company will become an IT company, and, more recently, that every company will...
Information Builders talks next steps in leveraging IoT data
Presenters at the latest Information Builders breakfast seminar, Powering IoT with an Information Management Strategy, provided a comprehensive view of what it will take...
IB Summit 2017: building next generation, self-service analytics
“It’s not about the pretty pictures, it’s about what you do with the data,” Information Builders CMO Michael Corcoran stressed in his welcome to...
Younger tech talent prove willing and able interns
The talent shortage is a prevailing topic in many of today’s tech conversations. The situation is only becoming more pressing as newer technologies such...
Analytics and operations need to find common ground
This year’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer Conference in Toronto was an opportunity for those in the analytics realm to commiserate over challenges and...
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...
