By Todd Hofley The July 8 services outage was a wake-up call for our industry and its regulators to address the lack of competition in our communications ecosystem. As a telecom provider, we recognize the Rogers outage was every telco’s worst nightmare. We understand how such a disaster can affect businesses deeply. There has been a lot of discussion about how much Canadians need an […]
When the global pandemic took hold, companies had no choice but to pivot to remote work and digital-first business models to withstand the impact of COVID-19. Now, one year later, we’re seeing the unintended consequences of rapid digital transformation and focus on business continuity – the pressure on technologists has reached a boiling point […]
COVID-19 changed how we live and work and transformed entire industries in 2020, impacting everything from hospitality to retail and medicine to technology. The networking industry is no exception. Networking vendors are making changes to meet dynamically changing industry needs and adapting suites that fit their core product portfolios. With a new year full of […]
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 […]
A private branch exchange or a PBX is an enterprise telecommunication system that uses local lines to switch calls between users and allow them to share a limited number of external phone lines. The primary purpose of using PBX is to reduce the costs of obtaining a separate line for each user to the […]
CIK Telecom Laying Out Fibre Infrastructure With A Multi-Million Dollar Investment In Markham Area While Waiting For CRTC’s Final Ruling CIK Telecom, one of the largest independent internet service providers in Canada, announced today that they would provide up to 10Gbps fibre internet in the Markham area starting from October 1st, 2021. CIK has […]
Ting Internet, a top-rated fiber-optic Internet Service Provider (ISP) and division of Tucows announced today that Jill Szuchmacher, formerly VP Ops at Google Fibre, will bring her her proven Internet leadership to the team as Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice-President Networks for Ting Internet. Szuchmacher joins Ting Internet after executing in high-profile roles, most […]
AppDynamics, part of Cisco, the world’s #1 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution and full-stack, business centric observability platform, has appointed Rebecca Leach as Country Manager for Canada. AppDynamics has been vocal about its interest in the Canadian market and sees this as an exciting opportunity to help Canadian enterprises with their digital transformation journey. With […]
Announcing the next California city to get gigabit fiber Internet from Ting Internet Ting Internet, a division of Tucows, is expanding its fiber Internet service in California. Culver City joins Solana Beach (announced November 2019), and Fullerton (announced April 2019), to become the third Ting Internet town in California, and 12th in the U.S. Ting […]
This is the story as I heard it: Meg Whitman, then the CEO of eBay, was being walked through the user experience design of an early version of its online auction service. In other words, she literally went through the process of trying to put an item up for bid, and saw how many steps […]
The proposed acquisition of Qualcomm by rival Broadcom for $130 billion may not just be a way to own the 5G wireless market — it could also create a formidable player in the enterprise networking space to ensure mobile applications meet performance expectations. Broadcom on Monday confirmed early reports from Reuters and others that it […]
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant just dodged what could have been another major disaster, thanks to quick thinking scientists who manually overrode the computer systems. But the cause of this close call was entirely different than the catastrophic accident in 1986. This time, it was a computer virus, in the second massive wave of powerful […]
IBM confirmed Thursday its acquisition of video conferencing service Ustream. It will join three other IBM acquisitions to form the company’s new cloud video unit. Fortune said the deal was worth $130 million, though IBM has not confirmed the amount. Ustream will become one piece in IBM’s new cloud video unit, which features three other […]
As many of you may know, B2B NN is curating the first-ever 2015 B2B Influencer Index, thanks to many of our readers submitting nominees they deemed worthy of this auspicious honour. We are looking for the top B2B professionals who are impacting their field and winning acclaim for successful accomplishments in 2015, and we will […]
You’re on a B2B site and suddenly a Web chat window pops up. “How can I help you today?” the window asks, and you can now learn more about the B2B company’s services, products, website. Customer service just went from you trying to contact someone to the company contacting you immediately via a live-chat tool. […]
Private corporate networks (i.e., intranets) and their applications, such as SharePoint, Microsoft’s enterprise collaboration software, do not optimally serve mobile users, or so the premise goes. This keeps businesses from addressing the needs of an increasingly on-the-go workforce, which can lead to employee disengagement. According to a Gallup poll, employee disengagement can cost B2B companies […]
As one of the latest communications technologies, software-defined networking (SDN) has the promise to revolutionize the way B2B firms deploy and manage business networks with full centralization, greater automation, more flexibility and reduced costs. However, there are also security, congestion, latency and SDN typology concerns to address. This primer looks at some of the key […]
The use of cloud computing in business has flourished over the past decade with exponential growth in adoption rates over the last several years. Enterprise cloud subscription revenues are forecasted to reach $67B by 2018, attaining a compound annual growth rate of 17.3 percent in the forecast period. Despite its undeniable popularity, it is the […]
Automation is transforming the IT sector, and a new study by Tech Pro Research called “The Future of IT Jobs: How to Beat the Machines” shows the scale of this evolution. The June 2015 study surveyed 353 respondents in the IT field asking them about where, why, and how they’re automating business process in their companies. The […]
Introducing a new regular profile series on B2Bnn: Women in B2B, sponsored by SqueezeCMM. With these profiles, you’ll learn about the careers and business goals of inspiring female leaders in the B2B industry. “Biz tech chameleon.” That’s how Sandi Jones, AVP of Global Infrastructure Systems-Network Services at Manulife Financial, describes herself. In her current role as network […]
