Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium 2019 – moving to the edge
Data centre and digital transformation experts and practitioners gathered at The McMaster Innovation Park in Hamilton on June 20th for a day of thought-provoking...
New DC Foresight report on the ‘Compute Factory’
A new report, Industrialization of the Data Centre: the Compute Factory, boasts deep and extensive roots. The report was created and edited over several...
Data Gravity in the Public Sector report released in advance of GCDCS19
InsightaaS is delighted to announce that it has released the first DC Foresight community report, Data Gravity in the Public Sector.
Sponsored by the Technology...
Old wine in new bottles? IB Summit 2019
As Information Builders emerges from transition to new ownership models and new leadership, the New York-based provider of data and analytics solutions has adopted...
New Research – All About Data: Classification, Integration, Veracity and Trust
On the heels of publishing a first book in the Vision to Value series on analytics best practises, the V2V community has launched into...
Cloud management – is Kubernetes the final answer?
Enterprise IT management has never been an easy task and, despite the best of intentions, cloud computing has yet to make life any simpler...
Centering on the edge with Intel’s new data-centric silicon
While organizations grapple with the digital transformation imperative, tectonic shifts are also underway in the IT provider community as companies come to recognize data,...
Channeling healthcare innovation for home and hospital
Healthcare systems globally are straining under the weight of increasing cost, explosive service demand, and aging infrastructure and equipment. As governments wrestle with these...
VMware Canada: building culture, portfolio sales, and partnerships
As with other members of the Dell EMC 'federation', VMware is managing a tightrope of opportunity, looking to put in place the resources needed...
International Women’s Day 2019 – celebrating and supporting women in technology!
Inclusion, collaboration, and courage – these were the main themes of 5th Annual International Women's Day Talks, presented on March 4th in Toronto. The...
Beauharnois data centre a model of OVH DIY scale
Renowned for their talent in pushing the envelope on data centre innovation, the hyperscale infrastructure providers pose a challenging conundrum to consumers of data...
Iterating BI process: the key to data maturity at Gore Mutual
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Founded in 1839, Gore Mutual is Canada’s oldest property and casualty insurer. Self-described as “prompted by care, not profit,” Gore operates as a ‘mutual’...
Canada’s climate action plan wants you
Climate change predictions can make pessimists of the optimists among us. In the most recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released...
Cloud computing in 2019: cloudy at the edges
Thirty-five years after George Orwell published his classic vision of our dystopian future, Nineteen Eighty-Four, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov offered some predictions for...
A standards anatomy: building tech norms in government Pt 1
Standards, huh, what are they good for?
Tech standards are widely touted as a panacea for a multitude of sins. Their application will solve interoperability...