Gary Hilson

Gary Hilson is a Toronto-based freelance writer who has written thousands of words for print and pixel in publications across North America. His areas of interest and expertise include software, enterprise and networking technology, memory systems, green energy, sustainable transportation, and research and education. His articles have been published by EE Times, SolarEnergy.Net, Network Computing, InformationWeek, Computing Canada, Computer Dealer News, Toronto Business Times and the Ottawa Citizen, among others.

Articles by Gary Hilson

Reduxio seeks to innovate snapshot tech for the flash era with BackDating feature

A startup's first array includes a mechanism it says will allow enterprises to recover data right down to the second in the history in any volume.

Oracle data center opening driven in large part by public sector data residency concerns

Powering up of the Toronto facility comes on the heels of a new CentriLogic facility and Microsoft opening two data centers to support Azure customers

CentriLogic expands Canadian data centre footprint with enterprise-grade Mississauga facility

GTA location will help CentriLogic attract customers here after successfully growing its business south of the border with Fortune 500 companies

Velostrata decouples storage and compute by streaming workloads

Enterprises with concerns about moving large data sets off-premise can address compliance concerns and avoid cloud provider lock-in

Hadoop in the enterprise: IT departments are struggling with two perennial issues

The evolution of Hadoop is both a blessing and a curse with its ability to handle more diverse workloads, but Ovum says multi-tenancy can smooth out deployment and optimize resources

Dell identifies the data centre segment just below hyperscale

Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) comes out of stealth mode, having already had customer engagements with service providers, telecom companies, oil and gas companies

DevOps fail: Avoid the most common business, technology and IT leadership mistakes

Many enterprises move ahead with a DevOps implementation without setting any key performance metrics once the funding is won. And that's just for starters

Cloud provider selection: The tools you’ll need and the homework you’ll have to do

451 Research says the onus is now on the enterprise to resolve complexity and get the best value for money in a market where prices are always in flux

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