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North Atlantic Network collaboration building foundation for Global Network Architecture
Scientists around the world are increasingly collaborating to address global issues such as clean energy, medicine and protecting the environment. Their ability to...
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...
Creating ‘data aware’ culture: Quinte Heath Care
Background:
Quinte Health Care Corporation is comprised of four geographically dispersed hospitals in Hastings and Prince Edward counties of Ontario, which employ a total of...
Frameworks and culture in Roadmaps to Cloud Success
A book as the source of knowledge in a world of digital communication? Surely not! In fact, not one, but two books served as...
Cloud ‘recipes’ to drive distribution
A half decade back, ‘cloud’ loomed as a dark menace over the channel community: large cloud vendors would either sidestep the ‘trusted advisor’ in...
New SDN OS aims to conquer carriers, then competitors
In this companion piece to his exploration of adoption hurdles for network virtualization in carrier and service provider networks, Kevin Fogarty considers some of...
Setting the bar on data centre best practices
In data centre economics, design is half the battle. Site location, deployment of modular build, state-of-the-art facilities technologies and high efficiency IT equipment have...
Reconciling the carrier SDN paradox
How does advanced technology go mainstream? In the article below, Kevin Fogarty deals with this (new) age old question in the context of network...
Service management constants
Managing IT and its associated services has been a challenge since Day One. At first, the High Priesthood in its glass house ruled. Supplicants...
Vitamin Y: a new home for Lenovo Canada
Context: Lenovo cut the ribbon on new headquarters located in Markham, Ontario last week. Designed to house an expanding workforce in a collaborative work...
Girls can too code
As I take ‘pen to paper’, an announcement that Karen Sheriff has been named President and CEO of Q9 Networks, a major Canadian provider...
Dell trains eyes on security software
In building its Software Group, Dell has been careful to observe two key management maxims: the importance of integrating new capabilities to leverage the...
Delivering effective customer analytics
Businesses that leverage analytics for internal use understand the value their data can bring. In many cases, organizations are also collecting data on a...
UCS for IoT
Does the candle burn at both ends? Cisco says yes, and in what Paul Perez, Cisco UCS GM, described as the "most sign technology...
