May
21
In IT, a Technology Lab can have many names, but most people will recognise what is meant by it here: something used for Development, Testing, Education or Demonstration of an IT based technology … among other things. Hopefully for most modern tech companies, the Wild West days of their Lab environment being a bunch of …
May
21
Remember the run-up to Y2K? While some people reading this blog may have been in grade school, and others were already seasoned IT professionals at the time, just about everyone remembers the labours of the time, changing all those 2-digit years to 4-digit years, and a large helping of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) that …
May
16
Cloud initiatives and investment announcements in Canada are starting to heat up with our own recent plug declaring our $20 million investment in data center expansion and deployment of a dual data center, multi-tenant cloud solution, aimed at the mid-large enterprise space. As competition starts to heat up it will be interesting to see which …
May
14
Many articles have been written about what the Cloud is or is not. In the spirit of the college entrance exam season (you remember the ACT and SAT?), I thought I would start out with a “simple” question – What really is a Cloud? Is it: a) Just another technology fad (JATF for you xTLA …
May
09
Backups are the bane of our existence in the datacenter. They’re the operational process that everyone loves to hate. Even worse, the constant change in the datacenter as new projects come along, data grows, and we retire old hardware cause the stability and performance of the backup environment to degrade. Perhaps most important of all, …
May
07
When it comes to the data center one trend that everyone seems to be dealing with is the growth of the data they are keeping and backing up. Adding to the issue of data growth are new government regulations on how this data needs to be maintained; number of copies, on site versus off site, …
May
04
A few years ago a friend and colleague said that when you’re out of storage your only choice was to buy more. Honestly, 5 or so years ago he was right; today there are more choices and great functionality available. Tiering, thin provisioning, de-duplication and archiving have proven themselves as valid ways to control the …
May
02
You’re a CIO or an IT Director (neither of those? Read on if getting there is on your career path). Your IT infrastructure is on the verge of a big change. Whether it is building a private cloud, data centre automation overhaul or some other major makeover of your IT environment, you are certain that …
May
01
I did it! I just developed OnX’s first Social Media Strategy for the Executive Team. With the risk of dating myself, after more than 15 years in the technology industry and learning best practices in four top enterprise companies, I envisioned my first Social Media Plan. Integrating Social Media within a company that has successfully …
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