Network Automation is a buzzword that you have heard about – and that your boss is asking you to understand, explain and deliver. But what does it really mean? And do you have time to learn and implement it? It can mean a lot of things to a lot of...
Read moreOrganizations across Canada are faced with a variety of challenges when it comes to IT. Over the past few years, I have identified four key questions that customers are turning to MOBIA to help with. The business is demanding that IT move faster and is circumventing us by using...
Read moreWe 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...
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