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

JavaScript has gone bad, beating out macros as top choice for spreading malware and ransomware

Office files with nasty macros remain a pesky vector for threat actors, having become popular a couple of years ago, JavaScript has taken over in the past two months in terms of message volume

PIPEDA changes should prompt improved security stances and roadmap creation

The Digital Privacy Act has amended some aspects of Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), including introducing a new data breach notification requirement that is not yet in force

What are the enterprise benefits of Microsoft’s Canadian cloud?

Azure's Canadian residency enables Microsoft partners to spin up development quickly and improve application performance

Université Laval becomes an IT services broker to offer a community cloud

The university's IT Architecture Office is leveraging VMware’s NSX to provide multi-tenant cloud services to both internal stakeholders and Quebec organizations

Dell ups storage ante with software that improves the economics of flash

The result of several years of effort, Dell is uniting its storage management capabilities with Dell Storage Center Operating System 7, which supports deduplication on both flash and hard disks

Data breaches put the bottom line at risk as consumers lose trust in brands

A FireEye survey found that consumers worldwide are security-aware and a data breach will affect how much information they share. For IT, it’s leverage at the board level for more investment.

Riverbed looks to wrangle the digital enterprise with SteelCentral update

Data and applications are moving across domains and extend to the cloud, but ultimately it’s still up to IT to make sure performance is at its peak

Five reasons why IT administrators believe their Windows environment might be at risk

ManageEngine's global survey found that 70 per cent IT administrators worldwide says their Microsoft Windows environments are at risk of malicious attacks -- and they are looking for improved visibility around configurations, settings and standards

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