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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Running a successful business involves a lot of troubleshooting, preemptive action, and strategic planning, especially in the fast-paced, technology-driven world we live in today. Many problems can arise in the course of a business day, and as a leader, you might have to come up with innovative solutions under pressure. Here are five common challenges […]
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 […]
After the year that we have had, we can safely say that the workplace’s standard and more traditional ideals have changed forever. With more people working from home than ever before, you have inevitably had to manage your workforce remotely for most of this year. For some, this was a complicated process, especially if […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of x.ai, whose artificial intelligence driven personal assistant lets people schedule meetings using plain English and nothing more than a CC to amy@x.ai. He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged […]
I had the pleasure of meeting Amy Ingram quite by accident. She was copied on an emailed meeting request, and followed up quickly and courteously. I asked the company I was dealing with when they decided to hire a new assistant. Honestly, I felt a little foolish when I learned that Amy was AI. But […]
Google uses AI, Facebook uses AI, your bank uses AI, self driving cars… you get the idea. We are fast moving from the app era, to the era of the intelligent agent and bots. We will witness the birth of hundreds, if not thousands, of autonomous intelligent agents over the next few short years. By […]
J9 Technologies was founded in 2004 by Clay Roach, who previously led the performance consulting practice for Mercury Interactive as a part of the Diagnostics R&D group. Clay led a practice that was instrumental in helping Mercury customers to quickly identify and resolve critical J2EE and .NET performance issues as well as creating methodologies that […]
We all know technology is advancing and changing at warp speed. And, we all know how much businesses have come to rely on it. Applications are becoming more and more critical to business success and survival. In the world of IT Operations Management, infrastructure and applications need to be available and running at optimal performance. […]
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 […]
