Cloud

It was only a matter of time before Google opened its first Canadian region. This February, after announcing the intent to open a region last...

IBM Canada vice president of cloud and software sales Frank Attaie says that continuous innovation is a guiding principle for IBM, which focuses on delivering a product businesses can use as much as cutting-edge infrastructure. In the case of cloud, that means viewing public cloud services through multiple lenses, including hybrid, native, and industrial.

Several years ago the CIO of Steamwhistle Brewery explained to Jason Brommet that managing servers and mailboxes wasn’t the lager producer’s core business - it was brewing “incredible” beer. That comment has stuck with Microsoft Canada’s director of partner business and development since, and is a driving force behind Microsoft’s cloud strategy this year.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was one of the first global cloud providers to set up shop in Canada, opening data centres in Quebec and launching a Canadian region at the end of 2016. This major milestone allowed many companies dealing with Canada’s strict data sovereignty regulations, which requires public sector organizations to keep their data within the country, to take advantage of cloud services for the first time.

Ooma is deepening its footprint in the VoIP marketplace by acquiring Voxter Communications.

There is no one silver bullet to protect against security threats in the cloud environment.  Rather, Albert Kramer, technical director with Trend Micro Canada,...

Dream Payments is partnering with Mastercard to create a cloud-based self-serve solution for the insurance industry.

Seventy per cent of organizations that want to leverage cloud technology fail to deliver business results, according to one cloud expert. That’s what happens when...