The future of work: how to support remote and hybrid teams

By Michelle Micuda, president, Staples Professional The pandemic has completely upended the way Canadians approach work – where it takes place, how we meet, when we log on, and off – and much more. In partnership with Angus Reid Group, Staples Professional surveyed office employees and senior decision-makers at businesses of all sizes across Canada to better understand the […]

Ransomware: Be ready for the growing threat

By Darren Yablonski The risks to business continuity have had many faces: malicious insiders, accidental deletion, and natural disasters to name a few. Today, the face of the enemy has changed. Ransomware is on the rise, making it the new top threat for organizations of all sizes. And as technological innovation grows, the threat posed by ransomware increases as well. Ransomware is consistently […]

OpenTelemetry and its positive impact on IT departments

By Gregg Ostrowski, Executive CTO, Cisco AppDynamics Today, OpenTelemetry offers more flexibility for enterprises of all sizes to have greater visibility into performance and availability by providing control of every technical element of their IT environment. This has proven to be a crucial factor for business growth by enabling the collection of data from distributed […]

Future-proofing Canadian business success in the anywhere economy  

by Andrew Eppich, Managing Director, Equinix Canada Despite the anticipated economic headwinds that threaten business growth, Canadian businesses and IT decision-makers are embracing the surging “anywhere economy” by investing in digital infrastructure to help deliver on the increasing expectations of anything, anytime, anywhere. To further understand the sentiments of IT decision-makers as they continue to navigate the anywhere economy, the most recent Equinix Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS) sought out opinions on technology trends that will enable […]

Government agencies are ramping up full-stack observability efforts – here’s why

Faced with ever greater complexity within their IT environments and ongoing pressure to accelerate digital transformation to enhance citizen experiences, technologists across government agencies have recognized the need for greater visibility into IT availability and performance across their IT environments. Government technologists know they simply can’t afford any slip-ups when it comes to delivering exceptional […]

Compare the Best Next-Generation Firewalls in China: Fortinet FortiGate vs. Check Point NGFW

  For many years, China has controlled the online content, news, and other media that Chinese people are allowed to watch, read, and listen to. To enact the policies necessary, China “erected” what has come to be known as the “Great Firewall of China.” This firewall blocks access to websites outside China, thereby limiting what […]

The top 3 skills business leaders need to prioritize in 2021

  The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in many business strategies, particularly around their ability to respond to a changing business landscape with resilience. In hindsight, it’s clear that the biggest challenge for organizations was a massive digital shift as remote work became essential to conduct business safely. Business leaders never saw it coming, or at […]

Jobvite + AppDynamics: a case study in saved time

Jobvite Saves Hours Per Incident After Migrating Critical Apps and Workloads With AppDynamics    AppDynamics, a part of Cisco, and the world’s #1 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution and full-stack, business centric observability platform, is partnering with Jobvite to save the company several hours per incident by simplifying its debugging processes and accelerating the mean […]

How Cloud Native Solutions Can Enable Scale and Resilience for Critical Business Systems

Whether we’re tackling customer relationship management or collaborating with remote teams in real time, the way we work has evolved because of applications leveraging cloud technologies. Cloud has enabled customers to adopt new features more quickly and easily scale to meet demand. These digital tools have quickly become essential in our current business landscape where […]

The Toll of Emotional Labour at Work during COVID-19

Coffee, Tea or Exhausted Me? By Kate Baggott Feeling more exhausted during the pandemic? It’s probably the extra emotional labour you’ve been doing. What is emotional labour? Over the past several weeks, much has been said and written about the increased load on women as they carry the greater demands of household labour and home […]

BOOK EXCERPT: The Problem with Operational Marketing Leadership

Book Excerpt from “The Next CMO – A Guide to Operational Marketing Excellence” by Peter Mahoney, Scott Todaro and Dan Faulkner CHAPTER 1 The Problem with Operational Marketing Leadership Warning: There is some tough love in this chapter. It is widely understood that CMOs suffer some of the highest turnover rates in the C-suite. How […]

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Enterprise Spotlight: J9 Technologies

Business Service Management (BSM) and Application Performance Management (APM) focus on the methods and processes of software tools, and the monitoring of the performance and availability of those applications.  These management systems help IT departments forecast how an organization’s technology will affect the business side, and give business value to IT metrics. Our new Enterprise […]