Alex Coop

Former Editorial Director for IT World Canada and its sister publications.

Articles by Alex Coop

Hybrid AWS Outposts ‘a great option’ for manufacturing, healthcare, says AWS director

Amazon Web Services’ on-premises Outposts offering is the perfect solution for Canadian manufacturing and healthcare companies seeking to deepen their ties with the tech giant but couldn’t through the public cloud due to data sovereignty or latency issues, according to its director and technical advisor.

Hashtag Trending – Google Maps revamp, Airbnb restricts age for rentals, France fines Apple

Google Maps gets a facelift, Airbnb is making changes in Canada, and France fines Apple for $27 million

Hashtag Trending – Google eats its vegetables, Visa explains Libra concerns, Spotify doubles down on podcasts

Google is engineering a way to encourage its employees to eat healthier, Mastercard's CEO says he withdrew from Facebook's Libra because Libra's leaders wouldn't commit to observing laws, and Spotify doubles down on podcast content.

Toronto man’s lawsuit against Apple a reminder that disability discrimination in tech still happens, says employment lawyer

Interacting with customers, fixing their devices, and getting a front-row seat to Apple's latest offerings were a regular occurrence for Robert Shaw, who, until...

Avaya’s installed base was ‘ripe for the picking’ last year, but that’s no longer the case, says CEO

PHOENIX -- There’s no bigger target than Avaya and its 100 million seats in the business communications market, and chief executive officer Jim Cherico wasn’t afraid to admit his executive team had their work cut out trying to stop hundreds of major customers from jumping ship last year prior to announcing a partnership with RingCentral in October.

Hashtag Trending – Amazon engineer dunks on Ring, Apple and Broadcom in hot water, Avast fallout

An Amazon engineer criticizes home-security camera company Ring, saying it should be "shut down immediately”, Apple and its wifi chip company Broadcom have been ordered to pay $1.1B, and Avast shuts down its data-harvesting arm.

Ginni Rometty out as IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna steps in

Thirty-year-old IBM veteran Arvind Krishna, who heads the company’s cloud business, will replace Ginny Rometty as chief executive officer, IBM announced today.

HPE wants to help make data centres greener, unveils new efficiency label

Climate change was at the topic of the agenda in Davos during the World Economic Forum last week, and it’s where Hewlett Packard Enterprise, together with industry leaders and universities, unveiled the Swiss Data Center Efficiency Label.

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