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

Shifting to colo for Era Z

It was a different world in 1997, pre-Google. While many people were online, most had 28.8Kbps to 33.6Kbps dial-up internet connections, with some devil-may-cares...

VARs across Canada are growing and winning big with TELUS

When it comes to business today, the old Dylan tune “The Times They Are A-Changin’” is apropos. The times are indeed changing, with a...

Micro data centers: Why keeping your data and your storage closer together is good business

With the rapid rise of the Internet of Things creating mountains of data generated from billions of devices, enterprises that depend on data centres...

Resilience the key to business continuity

Resilience boils down to an ability to bounce back from difficulty. Resilient people may be brought down like everyone else — having to declare...

How is your cloud journey paying off?

Most companies are by now well aware of the reasons why cloud could potentially be a great investment: that it caters to businesses with...

5G is coming. Are your ready to embrace the opportunity?

The fifth generation of wireless technology (5G) promises lightning-fast speed, low latency, and the capacity to carry a high number of connections simultaneously. 5G...

The Canadian government “Can Do”

For most, words like "dynamic" and "innovative" don't immediately spring to mind when the Government of Canada comes up in conversation. Quite the opposite,...

Tackling the challenge of data

Business decision-makers have always relied on data — in whatever form it came — to help them make the right decisions at the right...

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