From threat to theatre: CenturyLink and the cloud channel conundrum
Channel distribution is a relatively new approach for CenturyLink in Canada that is gaining ground with the advance of cloud service delivery. The company...
The Salesforce IoT Cloud
There's nothing like hitting all of the trends with one product. This year, the Internet of Things (IoT) is hot, hot, hot, as is...
VMware keystone in Saskatchewan healthcare cloud
Background
eHealth Saskatchewan is the custodian of electronic health records in the province of Saskatchewan, and manages the record of all interactions that one million...
Vitamin Y: Dell to acquire EMC
InsightaaS 'Vitamin Y' posts provide concise analysis of industry events and developments. This post examines Dell's record-setting $67 billion acquisition of EMC.
Context: Since becoming...
Interesting survey on cloud within Canadian SMBs
Primus has just released the results of a Canadian survey on SMB cloud use. The survey of 300 SMBs (5-99 employees), conducted by Leger,...
Aaron Dignan: The Operating Model that is Eating the World
InsightaaS: This 2013 post, by digital strategist Aaron Dignan, was nominated as a reference for the TCBC Planning for the Cloud/Cloud Strategy - SMB...
Cloud and the SMB manufacturer
InsightaaS: SMB manufacturing is an essential segment in the Canadian economy. In 2014, manufacturing was the largest goods-producing sector in Canada, representing $173 billion...
VMware hybrid cloud aims at silencing 'network trombones'
Cloud news at VMworld 2015 confirmed the currency of two themes that have steered the cloud discourse over the past couple of years: the...
VMware driving container coopetition
Is software really eating the world? Certainly a revolutionary conjuncture of trends would suggest this is so. While new digital models are displacing traditional...
Interesting post on the business implications of IoT/Industrial Internet
There's no doubt that technology is driving fundamental changes in many different kinds of businesses. The public perspective on this has been evolving over...
Three types of intelligence and their impact on cloud skills strategy
Since launching in April, the Toronto Cloud Business Coalition (TCBC) has identified 10 key focus areas that are important to the acceleration of cloud...
Cloud services going rogue on corporate intranets
For years organizations have been battling silos. Whether it’s the data centre, communications infrastructure or software, over the past decades IT departments have leveraged...
SaaS Capital: No Churn – Keep customers and improve your SaaS company valuation (2015...
InsightaaS: SaaS Capital has just released a new whitepaper, one which dovetails neatly with the focus of the TCBC group focused on financing cloud...
Defining cloud planning for the SMB
InsightaaS: The Toronto Cloud Business Coalition is a group of professionals from all sectors of the cloud economy - suppliers, intermediaries, IT management, finance professionals, academics...
Vitamin Y: Bell Canada’s big fibre play
Context: As part of a plan to invest $20 billion in developing broadband fibre and wireless networks across Canada by 2020, Bell Canada has...
