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

Security in agile world: There’s no going back

Historically viewed as a bottleneck to getting things done, security is now being integrated into workflows to support business outcomes

Dark data creates blind spots for organizations

Information that’s not available for people who need it can impede workflows -- and as more data is created by users, the bigger the problem gets

OpenText adds more HP assets as it looks to expand IT portfolio

Adding more HP assets will help the company even further and enhance and differentiate their portfolio, according to an industry analyst

Swift development sees fast uptake since being open sourced

Apple’s language was a huge step up from Objective-C, but a full-stack developer who can do both front end and back end well is still rare breed

Employees expect to be able to work remotely, but not all enterprises have a mobility strategy

A Citrix Canada survey reveals 84 per cent of IT decision makers report that their organizations have remote working employees

There’s more to distributed trust than Blockchain

The bitcoin and distributed consensus is just the early stages of a new paradigm for managing transactions and needs to go further to support enterprise-grade applications

Multiple devices mean rapid application development needs to get faster, easier

Lines of business within organizations are also looking to build apps without having the ability code

Enterprises are still not sold on the value of data sciences

Despite the hype around big data, few organizations a mature process in place to leverage data sciences to improve sales and business outcomes

Tech News