IBM Opens SoftLayer cloud centre in Montréal
IBM opened its newest SoftLayer data centre in Drummondville, just outside of Montreal, Quebec this past week. Just six months after launching its Toronto...
451 Research: Uptime Institute finds datacenters still differentiated by vision, design and efficiency
InsightaaS: In the spirit of the Uptime Institute’s founding raison d’etre – the sharing of best practice in data centre design, technology and operation,...
Grooming the human element of IoT
The Internet of Things is already entrenched in the enterprise psyche. There are reams of materials to be found on the business benefits of...
EMC on board with International Women’s Day
In celebration of International Women’s Day, EMC Canada hosted its second Women of Impact - Transforming the Face of IT meet up in Toronto...
Apto’s reuse, recycle business is booming
‘Apto’ is Latin for “to adapt, to adjust, to accommodate”: it is also the name of an emerging company in the ITAD space. For...
Achieving Big Data value
Organizations may be leveraging Big Data, but many still struggle with the need to realize value from their initiatives. In the edited interview below,...
Diligence-as-a-Service
One of the most intriguing business trends to watch 2015 is the evolution of service delivery, and in particular, the way that discussion of...
Reset on the panacea of cloud
Finding the path from initial pain to cloud success isn't a straightforward process, Michael O'Neil, principal at InsightaaS and author of The Death of...
Sparksight puts Dell power behind its video production
Denise Deveau is a Toronto-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology. Drawing on a wealth of experience writing for local dailies and multiple...
The “do’s” and “don’ts” of application migration
Patrick Pushor is a creative thinker based out of Western Canada with a fierce focus on cloud computing and related technologies. Patrick consults in many...
Cloudera and IB partnership delivering Big Data “sizzle”
For many organizations, Big Data is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” but as the celebrated British wartime statesman advised, “difficulties...
Risky business: location-based intelligence tackles credit management
Change is a constant in the financial world. But over the last decade, the pace and magnitude of change have introduced new imperatives in...
Wearables
When we think about wearable computing, consumery things like Fitbit and Google Glass come to mind. But those aren't the only doodads people can...
Channeling the Intel SMAC stack
As a leading provider of foundational technology, Intel is a good source of insight into new IT industry trends. The company prides itself on...
451 Research: Software-defined storage – a proxy for storage transformation
InsightaaS: Time was, storage transformation was a lot about falling prices, but as 451 storage research VP Simon Robinson explains in the article below, storage...
