Tag: #DataCentre
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...
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,...
VMworld 2016 – the 4 cloud ‘Rs’
“Nonsense” is Pat Gelsinger’s response to the hype around digital business, which calls on enterprises to place sole focus on a new style of...
Data centre options in a post-Brexit world
In a recent conversation with a senior executive at a rapidly expanding, Toronto-based cloud provider, an inevitable point of discussion was European expansion. Like...
IT-in-the-service of business: a cost equation
The IT leader today wears a heavy crown. Supporting a vocal end user community that has consumer aspirations for instant-on IT, he/she is also...
451 Research: The Open Compute Project; open is one thing, interoperable...
In IT parlance, “open” is often used synonymously with interoperable, but is that really end of story? In this special report presented below, 451...
Microsecond speed in new financial fabric
Imagine a global fabric that connects all financial and capital markets, linking buyers and sellers to each other through one large, secure networking pipe....
Containers FTW
The cloud was built on virtualization. It allows maximum use of hardware in a cost-effective way, and helps providers support customers while protecting them...
Vitamin Y: a Dell cloud – IoT update
Context: Dell’s acquisition of EMC has cast a long shadow. Since announcement last October of this major milestone in the company’s decade long quest...
Vitamin Y: VMware’s “transition year”
Context: Pat Gelsinger was in town this month on what is emerging as a regular bi-annual tour to talk with major Canadian customers. While...
TCBC Cloud Bootcamp take two
Figuring out the cloud is a challenge for many businesses. They can't decide which of the many definitions applies, and how any of them...
Equinix IOA unlocks global opportunity for big business in Canada
When the Canadian market beckoned, Equinix responded with the opening of a new US$100 million International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in the heart...
Positioning colo in a cloudy future
A carrot and the stick are accelerating the migration of business servers from on-premise to provider facilities. Driven by high CAPEX and OPEX costs...
Hydro delivers a DC power boost
La belle province is the new darling of the Canadian data centre industry. Driven by growing appetite for data centre services associated with the...
HPE persists with Persistent Memory
Computer memory, aka RAM (random access memory), comes with pluses and minuses. It's fast, and because it's snuggled up to the CPU, there's not...
