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Analytics and operations need to find common ground
This year’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer Conference in Toronto was an opportunity for those in the analytics realm to commiserate over challenges and...
Solving for cost and performance complexity: Just-in-Time VDI
Imagine the traditional engineering firm circa 2000. To access CAD drawing and other sophisticated engineering software, the engineering professional would need to come into...
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...
General Data Protection Regulation: from the EU with love
If you think that you're safe from needing to be compliant with the European Union's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), think again. If...
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...
Microsoft announces new tools and services to help developers modernize existing...
SEATTLE — May 10, 2017 — Satya Nadella, Scott Guthrie and Harry Shum welcomed thousands of developers to Seattle for Build 2017 — Microsoft’s...
Study assesses risk in a changing insurance market for driverless vehicles
MCLEAN, VA (May 9, 2017) - In October 2015, tax giant KPMG published a report projecting a 60% reduction in the $135 billion auto...
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...
Nokia joins ‘Smart Tampere’ initiative to help bring smart city services...
9 May 2017 - Espoo, Finland - Nokia has joined 'Smart Tampere', an initiative to introduce smart city services that will foster economic development...
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’...
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...
Vitamin Y: saving the GLOBE, one city at a time
Context: Hosted by Vancouver-based GLOBE Series, the GLOBE Capital 2017. Financing the 21st Century conference held in Toronto this April tackled one of the...
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...
RippleNami and BanQu enter strategic partnership to create disruptive technology
SAN DIEGO, Calif. … April 11, 2017 … RippleNami, a cloud-based data visualization platform, announced today it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with...
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...
