Tag: #DataCentre
Microsoft brings Canadian Azure to early adopters
A (r) evolutionary conjuncture of factors has culminated in Canadian-based, Microsoft cloud resource lift-off. First announced last June, Canadian cloud capability has finally come...
They’re doing what?? Microsoft open play
Microsoft has been startling people right and left this month, and Microsoft watchers are having a lot of fun. Or not, depending on their...
Canadian Web Hosting brings first VSAN private cloud to Canada
Canadian Web Hosting (CWH) recently claimed the distinction of the being the country’s first private cloud hosting platform to use VMware’s VSAN (Virtual SAN)...
Vitamin Y: IBM Bell partner to push hybrid platforms
Context: IBM and Bell recently announced their partnership to provide business customers across Canada with access to specialized cloud services via Bell’s Business Cloud....
CenturyLink deploys SDN and NFV to reach ‘simple’
When combined, two ends of the network virtualization spectrum can enable the powerful automation needed to support cloud networks – this at least is...
ATN: Project Natick plumbs new data centre depths
InsightaaS: The IT trade press is abuzz today with reports on Project Natick*, an experimental Azure pod deployed 30 meters below the surface of...
ThinkOn: bringing IaaS to the mid-sized enterprise
ThinkOn was founded in 2013 as Canada’s only wholesaler provider of virtual data centre, storage, compute and networking (infrastructure-as-a-service) services. Its focus is on...
Yitamin Y: How open is open, and when is open too...
Context:
Dell Canada recently invited InsightaaS and other IT journalists to a presentation designed to establish Dell thought leadership on IT infrastructure challenges facing the...
Split mandate or new model for the CIO?
For many years, the suggestion box served as a source of fresh ideas from outside traditional hierarchies of organizational authority. In today’s IT world,...
Plenty of process change chat at DCD Converged Canada
InsightaaS collaborated with global conference organizer DatacenterDynamics to deliver a major IT/cloud trade show event in Toronto last week. Our contributions to the Cloud/App...
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...
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...
Cloud shines through acquisition buzz at Dell World 2015
With a quick quip on the expectation that he explain “version 1.0 of the theory of the universe,” Michael Dell intimated at Dell World...
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...
Rogers’ cloud converging mobile and IT
In IT speak, “as-a-Service” has come to stand for ‘instant’ and ‘easy’ – attributes that Rogers stressed in announcing new services aimed at helping...
