Implementing Cloud Service Brokerage in Canada
Another upcoming CCN workshop is now scheduled, this one setting out to focus on how the ‘Cloud Service Broker’ model might be applied and grown in Canada. Our guest speaker is Ilyas Iloob, from Texas-based Gravitant, one of the leading suppliers of this type of e-market software. As you can see here Cloud Service Brokerage […]
Media Brief: Canadian Cloud Success Story: BoardSuite and Tenzing Successfully Partnering for Mission Critical SaaS Hosting
An interview with Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO BoardSuite By Howard Oliver, What If What Next Howard: Tell us about BoardSuite. and your involvement with it. Oscar: BoardSuite is a (www.boardsuite.co), freemium on-demand board portal that allows organizations the ability to manage, organize and share their confidential corporate information in a secured […]
eHealth Summit – Catching the Next Wave
Last Friday I presented at the Rogers Healthcare Publishing conference on EHealth, entitled Catching the Next Wave. Here are the slides from all the presenters. It was a really high quality event with a highly engaged audience, so these are all highly recommended. My theme of ‘Bring Your Own Doctor’ focused on how the consumerization […]
Implementing Cloud Service Brokerage in Canada
Another upcoming CCN workshop is now scheduled, this one setting out to focus on how the ‘Cloud Service Broker’ model might be applied and grown in Canada. Our guest speaker is Ilyas Iloob, from Texas-based Gravitant, one of the leading suppliers of this type of e-market software. As you can see here Cloud Service Brokerage […]
Media Brief: Canadian Cloud Success Story: BoardSuite and Tenzing Successfully Partnering for Mission Critical SaaS Hosting
An interview with Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO BoardSuite By Howard Oliver, What If What Next Howard: Tell us about BoardSuite. and your involvement with it. Oscar: BoardSuite is a (www.boardsuite.co), freemium on-demand board portal that allows organizations the ability to manage, organize and share their confidential corporate information in a secured […]
eHealth Summit – Catching the Next Wave
Last Friday I presented at the Rogers Healthcare Publishing conference on EHealth, entitled Catching the Next Wave. Here are the slides from all the presenters. It was a really high quality event with a highly engaged audience, so these are all highly recommended. My theme of ‘Bring Your Own Doctor’ focused on how the consumerization […]
BYOD Executive Summary
BYOD (Bring Your Own Doctor) will explore the impact of ‘Personal Clouds’ on E-Healthcare, and the potential for this ongoing trend of the ‘Consumerization’ of IT for helping tackle big industry issues. Faced with growing resource scarcity challenges in particular the baby boomer retirement ticking bomb, Canadian Healthcare has the opportunity to pioneer world-class innovations […]
Bring Your Own Doctor – Slides available
This Friday I am presenting at the 13th Annual E-Health Summit. My presentation is ‘BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor’. Here are the slides: Download; BYOD Healthcare Related articles BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor (canadacloud.net) The Creative Destruction of Medicine (canadacloud.net) New white paper: BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor (cloudbestpractices.net)
Building the Open Cloud Ecosystem – My date with Jake Gyllenhaal
This last week I chaired the Cloud track of the NATAS Summit – A very lively forum of investment banking IT professionals in New York City. I confess, while it was interesting the real highlight for me was attending the basketball. Courtesy of the Arachno team I attended one of the recent Nicks defeats of […]
Canada launches ‘Roadmap to the Cloud’
Here is the first version of our Canada Cloud Roadmap with inputs from contributing expert authors. Download : Canada Cloud Roadmap We will continue to add more great content from a wide range of experts, so that ultimately this document offers a powerful roadmap template for planning an enterprise migration to the Cloud. The Roadmap […]
New white paper: BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor
The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor’. UPDATE: I am also presenting on this topic at the upcoming 13th annual eHealth Summit – Read more. Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing This will focus on the overall best practices for Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing, in particular focusing in on […]
Cloud Readiness Assessment – Planning your Cloud TEI (Total Economic Impact)
Our objective here at the Canada Cloud Network is to build a local forum for innovating global Cloud best practices. For example over here at Sheepdog our goal is to build one of Canada’s premier brands for expert Cloud consulting. Central to this is development of the ‘Cloud Readiness Assessment’, a standardized process for helping […]
Harnessing the Cloud to build an ‘A’ Grade Canadian innovation culture
Since moving to Canada I have become fascinated and passionate about the situation of how the country faces an ongoing poor rank for innovation and economic productivity, most notably the “D for Innovation’ report series the Conference Board have been running for a while. They have just published a new announcement but a repeat of the […]
BYOD – The Creative Destruction of Medicine
The main ideas behind our upcoming BYOD event – Bring Your Own Doctor, are described in a recent MacLeans article covering Dr. Eric Topol, a prominent US cardiologist who is describing the transition underway from traditional health IT, to IT from the Cloud and smartphones. Central to this shift is the transformation of IT through […]
Big Data Cloud Computing – NYC Trade Mission, 23-24 April
This month we’re headed for New York City – I am chairing the Cloud track of the North America Trading Architecture Summit on April 23rd, a blue-chip event with CIO panelists from Morgan Stanley, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, etc. On the following day, the 24th, I am also running a more intimate workshop series at […]
BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor
The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD’ – Bring Your Own Doctor. In this March 4th article The Smartphone Will See You Now, the Canadian magazine McLeans reported on the work of the E-Health futurist Eric Topol. Topol describes the growing trend of patients using their own smartphones and e-health apps to self-assess […]
Let’s Crowdsource Canada – With Google!
In a previous post I introduced how our industry directory is built using a wiki, a collaborative tool that any one can edit. This is to help act on the call to action from Don Tapscott, to ‘Crowdsource Canada‘. Digital Economy Canada Don makes the critical point that Canadian institutions need to adopt these new […]
Transform Canada into the world’s data centre
The recent April 1st edition of Canadian Business magazine was really quite inspiring. Dubbed the Innovation Issue they offered 35 ideas to kick-start Canada’s economy, and it was exciting to see how they had keen insights on the role the Cloud Computing industry could play. The particularly powerful “Big Hairy Goals” they offered included idea […]
Let’s Crowdsource Canada and pioneer ‘Wiki Government’
Recently Don Tapscott put out this call to action for Canadian innovation, that the country should team up via a crowdsourcing mass collaboration effect to drive more innovation. Here is one part of our answer to this challenge, CanadaCloud.info, a directory for the Canadian cloud industry. The site is a wiki, so any one can […]
Utilizing the Cloud Strategy Map to Become a CIO (Chief Innovation Officer)
For CIOs looking to develop a new presence at the boardroom table, it means elevating well above the level of installing and configuring servers and software, and instead being able to relate to the organization in strategic terms, achievable through capabilities in key areas: Technology-enabled Strategy – Growing the organization through IT Outsourcing and Process Automation […]
Chromebooks for Canada!
It’s exciting to be on board with Sheepdog and be part of the Google channel. Although we already think of Google as a Cloud giant, they are really still early in their industry growth and there’s much more to come that will blow the market away. A great couple of articles with insights into this […]
How The Cloud Can Keep Canadian Business Afloat
Canada’s been seeing a slight recovery from its recession recently, with bankruptcies declining slightly from one year to the next. Still, there are companies that can’t keep up with the excessive challenges that are appearing as a result of the harsh climate. How can we keep businesses in Canada, particularly domestic ones, solvent? One way […]
Introducing Always On Canadian Cloud Computing
Yesterday we held our second CCN Seminar: Always On Cloud Computing. As described in our press release, this announced the launch of a roadmap innovation program entitled Always On Canadian Cloud Computing. The following speakers delivered presentations explaining this capability: Neil McEvoy – Introducing Always On. To illustrate the principles I delivered this presentation from […]
City of Calgary – How to build Citizen SSO via the Cloud
A headline topic and case study for our upcoming Municipality as a Service workshop will be the City of Calgary – How they are enabling “Citizen SSO” (Single Sign-on) through Cloud Identity technologies. This slot will be led by Jim Gravelle of Ping Identity – A useful background overview is offered in another of his recent […]
Go Google Enterprise – Municipality as a Service
Another seminar we are brewing up is ‘Go Google Enterprise‘ – Municipality as a Service. In short a review of what Google Apps offers for the towns and cities of Canada, covering topics such as: Identity and Citizen SSO – How to provide a seamless online experience for users through Identity technologies, described through a […]
Managing Identities in the Cloud – Not Your Dad`s SSO
Recently the local Ping Identity team gave this presentation on Managing Identities in the Cloud to the local Toronto Area Security Klatch. This describes the evolution from traditional enterprise SSO (Single Sign-on) to a web-centric one based on distributed approaches such as REST and OAuth, how it’s no longer “Your Dad`s SSO” Download: 13 page PDF. Ping […]
Always On Cloud with Google Compute
The rise and rise of Sheepdog continues. Check out this great review article on ZDNet. At our next seminar next week in Toronto, Always On Cloud Computing, I will be presenting for Sheepdog focusing on the Google value add tools for this high availability scenario. This will include the role of backup tools, like Backupify, […]
Go Digital, Go Google – Harnessing the Nexus of Forces
We’re scheduling an upcoming seminar on Digital Government, and one of the vendor presentation topics will be ‘Go Digital, Go Google’, the role Google Cloud options offer for achieving this transformation. Go Digital Last year the USA Government announced their Roadmap for a Digital Government strategy, building on their Cloud First initiative to migrate agencies to the […]
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