Tag: #cloud
Cognitive collaboration
IBM is tackling the holy grail of tech deployment - the need to align IT with business needs - on two fronts. On one...
Striking a Spark
Teleconferencing has been both a boon and a bane for businesses for many years. There are not many among us who haven't struggled with...
MS cloud + AI = digital transformation
Microsoft is one of several major IT players racing to build the AI (Artificial Intelligence) startup community. In December 2016, the company announced a...
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....
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,...
AWS Canada live
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Amazon Web Services went live with its new Canada (Central) Region last week and is pumped to deliver a range of services out of...
University of Toronto SCS adds new ‘Cloud Systems in Practice’ advanced...
Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous. 2016 research from Techaisle found that 80% of US small businesses and 100% of firms with 500+ employees are...
Big Data-as-a-Service takes shape in Canada
CenturyLink Technology Solutions is undergoing metamorphosis. Like many organizations that entered the data centre business a half decade ago or so, the company is...
Hub spinning for Agile Analytics
Big Data promises a wealth of riches in the form of new insight into operational processes and business opportunity. But for many organizations, the...
Dell EMC World 2016 – a study in integration
One strain of management theory holds that the success of an acquisition depends on the speed and efficiency with which the new business is...
DCD 2016 dives deeper into cloud
Conversations at this year’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged/Cloud Symposium shifted from discussion of general trends in cloud deployment to more laser focus on factors that...
Boots on to drive IoT adoption
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a hot, hot topic today, not only because it's something new and interesting, but because it has the...
IBM launches Innovation Space
IBM Canada celebrated the official opening of its Innovation Space for entrepreneurs and startups this month. The goal of this initiative is to provide...
Cross-Cloud across Canada
Shawn Rosemarin’s experience in the tech industry has been broad and deep. His career spans implementation with SAP and sales with IBM and Dell,...
Plugging in to customer experience
It wasn’t that long ago that Google Maps became the go to plug-in for business websites. The fact you could “find us” with a...