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Building on BI to achieve analytics insight
Analytics have become the poster child for how IT empowers people, processes and production. As additional sources of data have emerged out of social...
Dell tackling security complexity with Connected solutions
When asked about IT challenges, a conditioned response for vendor organizations is to think in terms of product sets — networking gear, storage portfolios, servers...
A budget-friendly approach to flash storage
A mathematics and IT management specialist from the University of Calgary, John Schouten embarked on his career in the IT industry through work to...
The location-based future
InsightaaS: Inherent in the appeal of mobility (and to a substantial degree, of cloud-based Big Data analytics as well) is the concept of location-based...
Savvis Canada acting on "aggressive growth plans"
Savvis has been doing its homework - and executing on plans that have emerged from this study. The Missouri-based cloud and colocation specialist is...
The medium and the message: SDN, mobility and the cloud of...
“By deploying SDN, by simplifying the network, reducing my costs to manage a network, I can take the funds that I saved and put...
Defining cloud's new rules
We’ve all attended panel discussions that include audience participation — but what happens when the audience itself is driving the discussion? In October, a...
Gore Mutual right-sizes network to drive 7% annual growth
Insightaas.com perspective: Beyond their intrinsic value as a showcase for new technology implementation, case studies provide another service. They demonstrate the art-of the-possible, and...
Six keys to finding business value in Big Data analytics
Here at InsightaaS, we’ve organized content around the "five Cs"of cloud, collaboration, cognition, communications and clients. In conversation with Information Builders, we explored the...
From access to wisdom: how IaaS is changing
Over the past twelve months, the watchword in the Canadian hosting industry has been "consolidation." Since last October, we have seen Q9 Networks, PEER...
Key network questions (and answers) on BYOD and cloud
At the beginning of the summer, InsightaaS joined forces with Leger Marketing to investigate two related issues: the extent to which individual-owned devices (as...
University of Toronto adds new certificate program in Big Data
According to a recent McKinsey & Company study, "The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and...
Prep for the SDN journey
Software-defined networking has dominated the networking discourse over the past couple of years. A complex topic and technology, the SDN concept is still searching...
IaaS and depreciation
InsightaaS perspective: This is a bit of a "funny" post. I initially developed it as part of my ongoing series for the TELUS Talks...
Startup key to shaping SMB cloud programming
The SMB segment has been a hard nut for the IT vendor to crack. Numerous, needy and heterogeneous, the small to mid-sized business community...