Healthcare analytics best practice scrum
Healthcare in Ontario received a shot in the arm this month when data specialists from hospitals across the southern region of the province met...
The outcomes-based business cloud
InsightaaS: On November 3, InsightaaS Principal Analyst Michael O'Neil is releasing a new book on cloud entitled "The Death of Core Competency: A management...
Datacenter Dynamics zones in on the GTA
There has been a lot of buzz in the Canadian data centre space of late. For its part, InsightaaS media has noted and recently...
Full circle
For the past few years, the rule has been consolidate, consolidate, consolidate. Every time we turn around, some company has been devoured by another....
Vitamin Y: Feds outsourcing to IBM’s Barrie facility
Context: IBM Canada announced this month that Shared Services Canada (SSC) has selected IBM to provide and manage enterprise data centre space as part...
IoT in hype hyperdrive
"Our role is to be a market maker of IoT," Cisco CTO Pasmadree Warrior proclaimed at the second annual Internet of Things World Forum...
The outcomes-based future of cloud
InsightaaS: It's clear to anyone who has an interest in cloud that the technology and scope of deployment has been evolving rapidly over the...
451 Research: The Green Grid breaks out of the datacenter to explore smart cities...
InsightaaS: In the research report below, the 451 Group’s European research manager, Andrew Donoghue, offers an interesting take on efforts of The Green Grid...
New Intel for Woodbine races
Beyond their intrinsic value as a showcase for new technology implementation, case studies provide another service. They demonstrate the art-of the-possible, and in so...
Making the IT business case
As IT executives, our powers of persuasion are called upon in a variety of ways, from leading and inspiring the IT team to gaining...
Dell helps Art of the Entrepreneur celebrate small business
Rarely riveting, conferences on entrepreneurship are often like a dose of castor oil — good for you, but hard going down. Most are long...
Management algorithms a cloud panacea?
In the article below, Kevin Fogarty tackles the thorny topic of data centre power management, a huge subject that encomp
asses cloud and virtualization technologies,...
Vitamin Y: The app approach to building data service value
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New York-based Information Builders has committed to expanding its presence in Canada through a mix of community building exercises. One approach that the long-time...
Vitamin Y: The value of (business) collaboration
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At InsightaaS, we write extensively about "collaboration" — and like many professionals with an IT bent, we often interpret the term itself as referring...
HP SDN App Store launch
HP has been building momentum towards launch of its HP SDN App Store, an online marketplace that went live September 25th where ISV developers...