IB Summit 2017: building next generation, self-service analytics
“It’s not about the pretty pictures, it’s about what you do with the data,” Information Builders CMO Michael Corcoran stressed in his welcome to...
SDN: networking in the cloud era
Cloud computing is a done deal. Virtually all organizations now use cloud in one form or another: the value proposition of SaaS is no...
The enterprise data centre – digital disruption or IT transformation?
There has been lots of talk about disruptive innovation and the IT transformation that occurs when “software is eating the world.” Significant progress has...
Scoping services with CenturyLink, SAP and SEAL
CenturyLink is resolving the ‘build’, ‘buy’ or ‘ally’ conundrum with a simple strategy: it is using them all. In developing its Big Data practice...
Fat fingers
When a large portion of the World Wide Web suddenly ceased to function recently, it was a wakeup call. Fifty-four of the top 100...
451 Research: Google Cloud Next 2017 – Is Google’s pricing a clear and present...
InsightaaS: With buzz mounting around Google's entry to Canada - challenging AWS and Azure in hyperscale, and complicating value propositions for local CSPs - we...
Community cloud – Laval’s experiment in social tech
Background
Since founding in 1663, Université Laval has worked to build a global reputation for high quality, comprehensive educational programming, research excellence and outreach to...
Car clouds and data networks – the Ethernet game is on
Celebrated as a “data centre on wheels,” the modern car is more software than ‘hardware’, and kicks off an enormous amount of data that...
Scale Computing enables Canadian MSP to add DRaaS to solution portfolio
Indianapolis, February 15, 2016 -- Scale Computing, the market leader in hyperconverged storage, server and virtualization solutions for midsized companies, today announced that Pinnacle...
CIA Plus Meetup tackles IoT privacy and security
The most recent CIA Plus Meetup in Toronto touched on subjects that are becoming of prime concern to the security community. Entitled Who’s Big...
Three keys to managed services innovation
Sitting midpoint between public cloud and reliance on on-premise IT resources, managed services are an increasingly attractive alternative for the delivery of IT services....
451 Research: Application containers will be a $2.7bn market by 2020
Containers represent a small but high-growth segment of the Cloud-Enabling Technologies market
NEW YORK — January 10, 2017 — The application container market will grow...
AWS DIRECT CONNECT SERVICE NOW AVAILABLE IN COLOGIX’S MONTREAL DATA CENTRES
AWS customers can now access the new AWS Canada (Central) Region via AWS Direct Connect located at Cologix’s MTL3 data centre
DENVER, CO and Montreal,...
In Canadian cloud, plus ça change
Over the past year, the cloud marketplace in Canada has experienced profound change. While XaaS adoption has accelerated across the size and industry spectrum,...
University of Toronto SCS adds new ‘Cloud Systems in Practice’ advanced course to its...
Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous. 2016 research from Techaisle found that 80% of US small businesses and 100% of firms with 500+ employees are...
