Howard Solomon

Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

Articles by Howard Solomon

Cyber Security Awareness Month isn’t only for consumers, says Canadian expert

October's annual awareness campaign has to include the C-suite speaking to employees. Read why

Canadian CIOs increasingly outsourcing data centre functions, says IDC report

"Very competitive market" is also seeing some providers drop in-house services in favour of partnering with Amazon, IBM and Microsoft

New era in Internet governance starts as US cedes control of domain name system

ICANN now has full control over DNS functions in a bid to spread governance across many international stakeholders

Security analytics platform now an Apache open source project

Now called Apache Spot, the Hadoop-based suite promises a solution for analyzing big data sets like flow data

Segmented networks, containerization needed to stymie ransomware: Citrix

In Winnipeg for a company presentation to health care executives, Kurt Roemer talks about

Microsoft touts container protection for Edge browser

Industry analysts differ on the value of the upcoming enterprise solution for Edge, which acts if user goes to a site not recognized or trusted by the network administrator

Microsoft offers analytics tool to help admins update PCs to Windows 10

Windows Upgrade Analytics Service advises on readiness of PCs and whether apps and drivers need to be changed

Google Cloud expands to more cities, but not in Canada

In addition, the company has updated its container engine, data analytics and machine learning offerings

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