Classics rule
People today love their toys. Whether it’s a gorgeous car to cater to a mid-life crisis, a fancy sound system, a high-end TV, or...
New SDN OS aims to conquer carriers, then competitors
In this companion piece to his exploration of adoption hurdles for network virtualization in carrier and service provider networks, Kevin Fogarty considers some of...
Driving BI mobility
Mobile BI (business intelligence) adoption has attracted increased attention over the past few years as mobile applications have matured and as more organizations have...
15 for 2015: Channel Trends in the North American IT market
Note to readers: the following post is the product of a joint initiative involving Techaisle president Anurag Agrawal and InsightaaS's Michael O'Neil.
Trends in the...
Setting the bar on data centre best practices
In data centre economics, design is half the battle. Site location, deployment of modular build, state-of-the-art facilities technologies and high efficiency IT equipment have...
451 Research: Cloud Price Index: mapping the ‘cloud war’ battle lines
InsightaaS: A cloud service is a service, is a service. Right? Not so, according to the 451 Research Group, which has developed a ‘Cloud...
Hybrid Momentum: a new whitepaper from InsightaaS.com
How — and how quickly — will cloud delivery models become an essential part of IT infrastructure, and what should IT management do to...
Watson in commercial mode
If necessity is the mother of invention, commercialization is its handmaiden. Defined as the process whereby new products are brought to market, commercialization has...
Reconciling the carrier SDN paradox
How does advanced technology go mainstream? In the article below, Kevin Fogarty deals with this (new) age old question in the context of network...
Service management constants
Managing IT and its associated services has been a challenge since Day One. At first, the High Priesthood in its glass house ruled. Supplicants...
Your decision is as good as your data
Our world has become a quantified one, with data serving as the objective measure of truth. While the average consumer is happy to cipher...
CRM triple play
Background
Reliance Home Comfort delivers mechanical systems and services to ensure home comfort. Based in Oshawa, Ontario, the company employs a large mobile sales (100...
Ten predictions for 2015 – and five issues to keep an eye on for...
It’s that time of year, the one where everybody is making a list, checking it twice, and then using it as a way of...
“Your company’s biggest risk is everyone in it”
“Are you making it too easy?” was the fundamental question posed at the Toronto launch of a countrywide Dell Security Tour that has taken...
Vitamin Y: a new home for Lenovo Canada
Context: Lenovo cut the ribbon on new headquarters located in Markham, Ontario last week. Designed to house an expanding workforce in a collaborative work...