We have all heard the saying that “the cloud is just someone else’s data center.” While there is some truth to it, if all we do is manually lift and shift our VMs, this approach misses the myriad opportunities that the cloud operating model presents. For example, one of...
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the global provision of healthcare. Emergency Departments (ED), in hospitals across the world, are operating as ground zero and the first point of access for those looking to be tested or admitted for care. EDs have had to implement a variety of process...
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Over the past decade, healthcare organizations have been facing exceeding pressures from changes in care delivery, legislation and funding. These pressures include technical demonstration of value, expanding regional and provincial mandates, consumerization and digital needs, third parties leveraging elements of clinical and financial information, the expansion of value-based, person...
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Over the past five years, the network industry has seen a rise in software-defined networking (SDN). SDN is an approach to architecture that allows for a network to be centrally controlled. One of the key components of this approach is application programming interfaces (APIs) – APIs help enable true...
Read moreAnsible is one of the largest open-source automation communities in the world. It is a tool used for provisioning, configuring and deploying IT tasks and is comprised of content that is created and updated by independent contributors, partners and Red Hat. Initially, Ansible gained popularity through Ansible Galaxy, which...
Read more“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. “ – Theodore Levitt A little over four years ago, Dr. Chris Patey, an emergency room physician and Paul Norman, an ER nurse at Eastern Health allowed their creative problem solving to spur on an “outside the...
Read moreThe world we live in today is rapidly changing and organizations are going through digital transformation — the profound change of business and organizational activities, processes and potential as result of rapid innovation and implmentation of technology — at record speed. While the term may be overused, it is...
Read moreThere is an old adage that says: strive to do more with less. In the IT world, that statement rings particularly true– we are constantly balancing “keep the lights on” activities with new projects. For IT organizations and teams to be able to achieve this fine balance, implementing automation tools...
Read moreAs the world tries to make senses of a new set of norms in the wake of COVID-19, organizations have learnt firsthand the importance of being agile and adaptable to change. Being flexible isn’t only applicable to business processes but to the enterprise networks that support those processes and...
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Over the past two weeks our traditional notion of ‘the workplace’ has been replaced with remote office. Organizations across the globe are moving, or already have moved their employees from the office to work from home. This decision impacts companies differently – some are more advanced in their...
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