Why did you choose to support Y2Youth? “The concept is what appealed to me. Although we all emphasize education in different ways, it’s through getting right into the thick of things and getting dirty that we truly learn. Mentors are also very important, but in my experience, time and constructive failures tend to be some…

Building a data centre that stands out so it can survive in a crowded market is tough, especially with the growing disparity between upstarts and giants, but nevertheless exciting. I speak from having worked on the ground, to eventually guiding the technology and business direction for our business — a cloud and data centre firm….

Centralizing and delegating control of your mission critical systems and data out of the office and into the cloud is something that would make any business cringe. We understand that and have learned this first hand when building cloud services. Security has been proven to be an area that has become a constant challenge for…

Oliver Bush, Technical Writer As Canada enters a recession, businesses all over the country have already begun to clench their wallets tightly. In this day and age brand loyalty is far less important, businesses want to get the most out of their services and, for the most part, they aren’t as concerned where this is…

Todd Howe, Linux Systems Engineer Traditionally, specialists in information security divide into two opposing camps — the Red Team and the Blue Team. The Red Team’s role is to simulate barbarians at the gate: probing network defences and acting like attackers in order to expose and report weaknesses. Blue Team is left to pick up…

This year, we decided to add an element of adventure to our Christmas party by allowing our neighbor, Hub Climbing to host our annual Kid’s Christmas Party. On December 20, 2014, we walked into one of the largest climbing and bouldering gyms in Canada (18,000 square feet of space) where Hub staff watched parents struggle…

This is really what it’s about for most firms: the cost. There are many ingredients to executing a reliable and scalable service. Reliability is a simple but useful term because it is a stand-in and abstraction for many of the related attributes of a good service: security, currency, fault-tolerance, redundancy — reliability is the end…

A provider can offer anything from raw ingredients for programmers to build online services and applications from scratch, all the way up to highly industry- and problem-specific applications, along with the management and maintenance required. There’s a place and market for these services. Anything from files to desktops and video conferencing can be run from…

 If you suspect that cloud is an over-used marketing term, you’d be right, but to only to an extent. Executed properly, the technologies underlying modern cloud based services provide new and always improving levels of reliability and scale. These technologies drop the barriers to benefit, and in business terms, this opens up new opportunities by…