Microsoft brings Canadian Azure to early adopters March 29, 2016 by Mary Allen In the summer of 2015, Microsoft announced plans to build facilities

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Microsoft brings Canadian Azure to early adopters
March 29, 2016 by Mary Allen

In the summer of 2015, Microsoft announced plans to build facilities in Canada for the delivery of cloud services using local resources – despite the greater potential for realizing economies of scale in very large data centres. This month, the company launched Azure previews for early adopter customers out of these new Canadian ‘regions’.

Microsoft cloud strategy in Canada
Janet Kennedy, president of Microsoft Canada, described this investment as part of a global localization strategy and in part as a response to efforts made by her public sector team, “which over the last six years continued to explain to headquarters that while cloud is coming to the world, the public sector in Canada is not going to come unless we have data centres in this country.” Learn more about Microsoft’s cloud strategy in Canada

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Professional Insight: Defining Best Practices in SMB Cloud
March 30, 2016, lead analyst Michael O'Neil

Co-created by members of the Toronto Cloud Business Coalition, the newly published Planning for the Cloud/Cloud Strategy – SMB outlines the steps needed to ensure best practices in SMB cloud planning/strategy. The report offers detail on the key issues SMBs face as they launch cloud initiatives, and how to address these. Read more

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The ugly truth about ransomware
April 4, 2016 by Denise Deveau

“There’s a definite correlation between bitcoin and the number of ransomware hits,” explained Jerome Segura, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes.
Ransomware: a profitable cybercrime
In the growing threat landscape, ransomware has become a profitable cybercrime: approximately 80 percent of the cyberattacks that are detected belong to this category of malware, which bypasses the middleman (buyer of stolen IDs, etc.) to extract payment directly from the attack victim. Read more

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Lateral strategy: from innovation to infrastructure
March 31, 2016 by Michael O'Neil

Information Builders has incorporated Hadoop into a strategy that is designed to help customers overcome Big Data challenges.
From BI Mode 2 to Mode 1
“it’s important to have the flexibility to support all different kinds of applications – and from the WebFOCUS perspective, it’s important to have the ability to support both Mode 1 and Mode 2 inside Hadoop, using the same infrastructure.” Jake Frievald, VP Marketing, Information Builders, has provided an example to illustrate how Hadoop Solutions can reduce the gap between Mode 2 and Mode 1. Read More

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