Revenue Strategies – Cisco Cloud Builder
Our ‘Cloud Revenue Strategies‘ program is a focus on the sales and product aspects of Cloud, being intended for the industry players including co-location data centres, web hosters and telcos. We’ll call upon our base of ongoing best practices, such as Cloud Service Brokers, and identify how these will translate into new sales capabilities in [...]
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Cisco Cloud Builder – Health Information Exchange
The idea behind our Catalyst Project process is to initiate an academic best practice-based R&D project for developing new Cloud solutions, so that any good ideas can be helped along via a robust incubation workflow. The first part of this process is to match existing vendor offerings, so that the part that’s missing defines the [...]
Revenue Strategies – Cisco Cloud Builder
Our ‘Cloud Revenue Strategies‘ program is a focus on the sales and product aspects of Cloud, being intended for the industry players including co-location data centres, web hosters and telcos. We’ll call upon our base of ongoing best practices, such as Cloud Service Brokers, and identify how these will translate into new sales capabilities in [...]
Vijai Karthigesu, COO, Cloud Dynamics
Vijai Karthigesu is the Chief Operating Officer for one of Canada’s shining start-ups in the Cloud field, Cloud Dynamics. Previously the Director of Technology Planning at eHealth Ontario, Vijai is one of a powerful team of similarly senior IT industry executives who are heading up this venture. As described in this introductory blog, Cloud Dynamics specialize [...]
New Drummond Report white paper – Ontario Cloud innovation showcase
Here is the next version of our white paper focused on the recent Drummond Report for Ontario. You can download from here. Workshop News First please note that the accompanying workshop, scheduled for the 31st, has been postponed for the moment. We were overwhelmed by demand and the original venue was proving too small. So [...]
Catalyst Project – Cloud VDI for Healthcare
To provide a vehicle to turn new ideas into actionable project plans for Cloud solutions, our primary R&D activities are organized through `Catalyst Projects‘. Here is the first project, the first version of a proposal for ‘Cloud VDI for Healthcare‘, by David Chartash. As you`ll see in this 4-page PDF, the central idea is the [...]
.CA – Canadian Grade Cloud Privacy for Digital Economy innovation
One of the key activities to help build out an R&D program here at the CCN, is to start a Kantara working group, called Cloud ID Sec, standing for Cloud Identity and Security. This is part of building the capability into the roadmap, organizing it locally to create innovation opportunities for Canadian entrepreneurs. You can read [...]
Latest opportunity news from Ontario Exports
Latest opportunity news from Ontario Exports: Peruvian IT buyer in Ontario (June 8 and 12) seeking Wimax, IT security, infrastructure, mobile banking apps, etc. Deadline to apply Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Ontario Interactive Media mission to Siggraph, Los Angeles * August 7-9, 2012. (3 spaces available). Early bird ends next week. Ontario IT security mission [...]
UK Market Entry Services
Introduction The CanadaUK Partners team has over thirty years’ experience in developing successful business partnerships between companies in Canada and the UK. he UK is a natural choice for Canadian cloud companies expanding to Europe, with almost half of Canada’s exports to the EU. The Opportunity A survey[1] of UK CIOs indicated that the cloud [...]
Virtual Commercialization Institutes
One very exciting idea at the heart of the ‘Digital Hubs’ roadmap is the concept of ‘Virtual Commercialization Institutes’. It’s been noted in many of the innovation research reports that Canada doesn’t actually have an ‘Innovation Gap’, but rather a ‘Commercialization Gap’. I.e. Lots of great engineers and academics, not quite enough salespeople, investors etc., [...]
Darryl Wilson, Dimension Data Canada
Daryl Wilson is the Practice Director for Dimension Data Canada. The organization is celebrating it`s fifth year of operation in Canada, having enjoyed 30% year-over-year revenue growth. As a result of this success they are expanding from their HQ in Mississauga into the Ottawa and western Canada regions too. It continues to hire aggressively, and [...]
Dimension Data Canada Wins Cisco Professional Services Partner Of The Year Award At Cisco Partner Summit 2012
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO – May 14, 2012 – Dimension Data, the $5.8 billion ICT services and solutions provider <http://www.dimensiondata.com/> , today announced that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit theater award for Professional Services Partner of the Year in Canada. Cisco unveiled the winners April 17 at its annual channel partner conference in [...]
Apps Store Innovation Nation
One of the best practice documents that the CCN is based on is the CATA Innovation Nation recommendation report Innovation Nation. This has a number of insights and strong recommendations, and also provides a context for the new GovCloud services that Salesforce.com are launching including here in Canada, what we could describe as an ‘Apps [...]
Cloud Privacy, Trust and Innovation – Recommendations
To build up the Digital Economy program, we’ll identify the various players in Canada who have proposed and submitted their own views and recommendations on the topic, and how these might relate to Cloud. We’ll then compile all of these, identify how they can be applied within the Cloud industry, and then publish this as [...]
Canada’s Missing Digital Economy Strategy – I Found It!
One critical challenge for Canadian tech innovation is the lack of an overall ICT industry strategy at the government policy level. It’s been noted that the required ’Digital Economy Strategy’ document has been long-promised but consistently struggles to appear. It’s been missing for some time and this is evident in the lower rates of ICT investment [...]
GovCloud 2.0 – Salesforce.com
With Forbes.com recently reporting that the USA Government has saved over $5 billion as a result of their ‘Cloud First’ initiative, with potential for a full $12 billion if they continue an aggressive pace of adoption, it`s no surprise the public sector is such a buzz of Cloud innovation. As Joe points out it’s not [...]
Introducing Cloud Dynamics : Right-sizing the data centre
Canada boasts yet another start-up with the potential to be a heavyweight player in the global Cloud Computing industry. Cloud Dynamics is a uniquely powerful formula for this market, given two particular key founding strengths: An executive team with comprehensive, real-world experience of large data centre transformation programs and associated Cloud computing architecture skills. Their [...]
Innovation Best Practices – Procurement Commercialization
Our own contribution to the collection of Innovation Best Practices is a technique we call ‘Procurement Commercialization‘. As the name suggests this is an approach for using your own procurement as a source of innovation stimulus, which can then be combined with more robust commercialization procedures = Procurement Commercialization (PC). Forward Commitment Procurement – ‘Buying [...]
GreenDataCentre.org – Building Green Cloud Computing Grids
Another major program area we`re adding to the Canada Cloud Roadmap is `Green Data Centre`. You can track the development of this program at GreenDataCentre.org. My instincts are this will launch into a dedicated sig really quickly, and it will host at this web site address. As the name suggests this field focuses on the [...]
Canada Cloud Network launches Social Cloud PR service
CanadaCloud.net, 11-May-2012 – The Canada Cloud Network (CCN), a new industry consortium intent on establishing Canada as a world leader in the field of Cloud Computing, is pleased to announce their formal launch and the immediate availability of membership services including ‘Social Cloud PR’. Founded by Neil McEvoy, a long-time Cloud Computing entrepreneur from Scotland, [...]
CSB – Services and cloud security architecture
On of the key light bulb moments for me was seeing this diagram illustrating that a Cloud Service Broker would not only aggregate suppliers but also technical architectures too. In other words, it provides ‘Security-as-a-Service’ not just because it adds value to the brokering process but because it also directly implements a Shared Services architecture. The broker [...]
Agenda for Canadian Cloud Service Brokerage – Cloud Transformation Management
The first program we’re firing up for the Canada Cloud Roadmap is a focus on implementing a localized Canadian ‘Cloud Service Broker’. This will be documented to CloudServiceBroker.ca, with a view to launching one on the same address. As Gartner explains, a CSB is a ‘middle man’ of Cloud Computing, providing value add services in [...]
Tweet your support for Canadian Cloud world domination!
I challenged Barry Jinks, Chief Bottlewasher at Colligo Networks, that if he were a true Canadian he would tweet ‘I Love CanadaCloud.net‘ or else his citizenship would be automatically revoked and he’d have to live in America. Didn`t actually expect him to do it so got a real hoot to see that pop up. So [...]
ACIS – Microsoft Cloud 2.0 Provider
One of the most exciting Canadian start-ups I have recently profiled is ACIS Consulting, led by Efrem Habteselassie. ACIS are a specialist in the Microsoft FAST Search engine, and this review prompted me to write the white paper – Microsoft Cloud 2.0 – FAST Social Computing. It really blew my mind how much of a [...]
International Markets – Regional entrepreneurs team
In many of the Innovation Best Practice documents they talk about a primary Canadian weakness of being somewhat insular, also manifest in lower levels of ambition too with many Canadian CEO’s targeting only Canada as their total potential market. They also describe how important connectivity is to the world markets and to the key leaders [...]
Their Time To Lead – How could the Globe and Mail pioneer Cloud disruptions?
The headline brand for our Canada Cloud Network is this icon of a Globe and Mail front page splash, a graphic they generated for many people when launching their Time to Lead campaign. I thought it apt for the ambitions I had for this forum and have used it since – World Domination pinky, nothing [...]
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