Productivity on the road
Business travel is not fun at the best of times. With airlines cramming too many bodies into too small seats, carry-on restrictions designed to...
Three types of intelligence and their impact on cloud skills strategy
Since launching in April, the Toronto Cloud Business Coalition (TCBC) has identified 10 key focus areas that are important to the acceleration of cloud...
Tackling IoT on the Wavefront
In many ways, discourse around the Internet of Things has been framed around devices and data. Visioning of novel business models and use cases...
451 Research: View Technologies launches real-time, location-based RFID service for IoT item visibility
A convention has built around the Internet of Things which measures IoT market potential in terms of the number of devices that will be...
CenturyLink CSO on defence against the “five bad actors”
Dave Mahon brings impressive credentials to his current position as Chief Security Officer at CenturyLink. Former supervisory special agent with the FBI, Mahon began...
Cloud services going rogue on corporate intranets
For years organizations have been battling silos. Whether it’s the data centre, communications infrastructure or software, over the past decades IT departments have leveraged...
Five keys to marketing analytics
Analytics is “hot” – as hot as any application in 2015. Investors, start-ups and established suppliers, consultants and customers are all trying to capitalize...
Whither the PC in a mobile, cloud world?
What is the PC, and has its death, as Mark Twain put it when asked to comment on reports of his demise, “been greatly...
Microgrids: integration for power cost and control
Context: microgrid and data center synergies
Autonomous energy networks that integrate distributed power resources, matching this with local energy loads to service localized demand, microgrids...
What's in Your e-wallet?
With the increasing popularity of online shopping and electronic wallets, credit card issuers are understandably nervous. Faced with online-friendly products like PayPal, they know...
Defining cloud planning for the SMB
InsightaaS: The Toronto Cloud Business Coalition is a group of professionals from all sectors of the cloud economy - suppliers, intermediaries, IT management, finance professionals, academics...
Vitamin Y: Bell Canada’s big fibre play
Context: As part of a plan to invest $20 billion in developing broadband fibre and wireless networks across Canada by 2020, Bell Canada has...
Enabling tools can put security practices on high alert
A network performance specialist by profession and principal with The Technology Firm, Tony Fortunato has spent his career working with enterprises to solve issues...
Cirius gets serious about Azure
Background
Vancouver-based Cirius provides a safe and secure, cloud-based messaging platform. Its flagship product, Cirius Secure Messaging, features email encryption that enables business professionals to...
Last Panacea session explores cloud future
In a fitting farewell to the Reset on the Panacea of Cloud series, presenters at month’s CenturyLink breakfast event talked about the future. A...
