Aug
01
Paul Khawaja to Drive Company’s Federated Cloud Strategy Following OnX’s $20 Million Investment TORONTO, Ontario and NEW YORK, NY – July 26, 2012 – OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global provider of enterprise data center solutions, today announced the appointment of Paul Khawaja as Executive Vice President of Canada and Chief Operating Officer of the …
Jul
18
A decision to virtualize desktop infrastructure is not made in a day. Many organizations that look into virtualizing their desktop infrastructure go through distinct stages of learning, understanding and accepting VDI. These are the three stages of VDI acceptance I typically see. Stage 1 – Excitement When we first learn what VDI promises to deliver, …
Jun
26
It’s summer time and, like most parents, I have kids around the house a bit more than normal at this time of year. This leads to some interesting question and answer sessions … Where does the water come from that falls as rain and how does it get up in the sky? Why do people …
Jun
22
Walking through a large building with 20 huge reel-to-reel, collared tapes on each arm, looking like the Michelin Man, was not really my idea of what “working in IT” was about while I was in school. We had about 20,000 of these tapes to move to a different section of the office to make way …
Jun
20
OnX OnDemand Consulting is a time and materials based IT Staff Augmentation consulting model and service that provides clients with flexible and expert resources for all technologies and solutions available from OnX. From infrastructure services to application development and everything within the system development life cycle to cloud and managed services – we offer deep …
Jun
18
I recently participated in the Toronto FIX protocol conference in Toronto to introduce the new OnX offering of an integrated High Performance trading stack (Consortium). It was a learning experience and extremely exhilarating. Outside of the fact that our OnX Gnome “Gary” was hugely popular our solution was not to be beat. I learned that …
Jun
18
New SVP Previously Served As Group VP at Oracle TORONTO, Ontario and NEW YORK, NY – June 18, 2012 — OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global provider of enterprise data center solutions, today announced the appointment of Tom Wagner as Senior Vice President of the United States Western Region. Wagner will be responsible for Sales, …
Jun
15
In today’s modern and fast paced society, it appears to be all about how quickly and efficiently you can get the tasks at hand done. So, this begs the question, how fast are your applications performing? Is it time to look at your application infrastructure or your database and make changes? Have you budgeted and …
Jun
05
At OnX, the dedicated Healthcare Practice understands the business requirements of Healthcare and is determined to respond with world-class technology solutions to help clients achieve better results. Poised to make a difference in Healthcare, Team OnX and its best in class partners are SOLUTION FOCUSED + OUTCOME DRIVEN! Together we share a common goal of …
Jun
05
What are the three most important factors in retail? Location, location, and location. Now this same question about location is creeping into the conversations of CTO’s and IT data center managers alike. Where do we put our next data center? In years past there was an easy answer, in the same office as the employees. …
Jun
05
From now until June 8th public voting is open for sessions at VMworld 2012. If you go to www.vmworld.com and log in with your VMworld account (you will have to create one if you do not have one already) you can follow the link on the main page: Call for Papers Public Voting. There is …
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
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
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 …
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