Tag: #DataCentre
The Greater Toronto Area – still good for data centres
Recent announcements lead us to believe that Montreal has become the premier location for data centres in Canada. Amazon recently chose Montreal for its...
DEW 2017: “better together”
A merger can serve many masters: it may be aimed at improving the performance of the target company, consolidating a particular industry, creating or...
The quantum computing mystique
Talk to those in the quantum computing arena and you will either be enlightened or confused on any given day. At times the language...
Making the rounds with Cisco DNA
Carriers of genetic information needed for the growth, development and functioning of cells in virtually all living organisms, DNA double helix molecules store ‘code’...
DataSite to launch HPC solution with Motivair ChilledDoor Rack Cooling Systems
Orlando, FLA – May 02, 2017 – DataSite, a wholesale data center space and network service provider that owns and operates world-class colocation facilities...
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...
Spinning off or building up?
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a year ago that it was spinning off its enterprise services (ES) business and merging it with CSC...
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...
451 Research: OCP Summit 2017. A maturing hardware ecosystem still needs...
The Open Compute Project’s celebration of its ninth annual summit begs two observations: while interest in this initiative remains high, it’s not clear how...
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...
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...
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,...
Vitamin Y: More on merger – Dell EMC culture, customers and...
Context: Dell EMC has taken its merger message on the road with pit stops in major Canadian cities. Last week, the company touched down...
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...
