Glenn Weir

Content writer at IT World Canada. Book lover. Futurist. Sports nut. Once and future author. Would-be intellect. Irish-born, Canadian-raised.

Articles by Glenn Weir

Cybersecurity wake-up call: A 6-step approach to proactive incident response

Business has a new battleground. The foes aren’t competitors, but they are silent intruders beating at the doors of virtually every organization. They are...

Developers: Climb to the top of the applicant heap

There are close to half a million professionals in Canada's tech industry, which comprises seven per cent of the national economy. At any given...

In pursuit of secure engagement and collaboration

There’s a kind of cool factor these days to being viewed as a disruptor. The word “disrupt” itself implies innovation, or at least change...

ECM & CRM – a file-management powerhouse for the digital era

Companies have always had to manage paper files. Initially, it was photocopies and faxes, more recently it's Word documents and PDFs. In the digital...

Opportunity Knox: Flexibility and defence-grade security

The Government of Canada’s Information Technology Strategic Plan 2016-2020 lays out policies and procedures required to mitigate the risk of significant cyber security events....

Learn how to create a unique selling proposition

McDonald's became a great example of the power of the Unique Selling Proposition (USP) back in the 1950s when, under the tireless energy of...

Overcoming the limitations of first-gen HCI

IT is in a state of perpetual evolution. In an ever-changing world, change is in fact the only constant. Take hyper converged infrastructure (HCI),...

Becoming more agile and responsive in the age of big data

Did you know that data production will be 44 times greater in 2020 than it was in 2009? An that although individuals create over 70...

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