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Coffee Briefing, June 15, 2021 – Cisco unveils hybrid cloud goodies; GoDaddy upgrades; Mississauga’s smart city update

Cisco unveils a host of hybrid cloud goodies, GoDaddy announces a bunch of upgrades and integrations, and Mississauga’s smart city’s ambitions take another step forward.

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Coffee Briefing, June 15, 2021 – Cisco unveils hybrid cloud goodies; GoDaddy upgrades; Mississauga’s smart city update

Cisco unveils a host of hybrid cloud goodies, GoDaddy announces a bunch of upgrades and integrations, and Mississauga’s smart city’s ambitions take another step forward.

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Dell launches telco infrastructure solutions

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Quebec-based digital commerce firm OSF Digital makes second acquisition since last month

Global digital commerce-focused systems integrator OSF Digital this morning announced it has acquired Toronto-based personalized marketing solutions firm Relation1 to strengthen its marketing cloud services in North America.

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Cloudera to be acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR for $5.3B

Enterprise data cloud company Cloudera has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by affiliates of the private investment firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and KKR in a $5.3 billion all-cash transaction, the company announced June 1.

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ThinkOn launches cloud marketplace for Canada’s public sector with QuickSilk as initial member

More than a year in the making, GCloud.ca by ThinkOn launched May 26 and is already waiting to enlist dozens of software vendors that have expressed interest in the portal

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Cloud Videos

Dell Technologies World – Day 1

IBM’s quantum system explained – All Hands on Tech

All Hands on Tech – Amazon DeepRacer League encourages developers to train self-driving cars

Unboxing for Business – Amazon DeepRacer AI training car

Tour Canada’s largest data centre in the old Toronto Star print facility

President to President with Jonathan Spinks, CEO of Sourced Group

President to President with Eric Gales, Amazon Web Services Canada

2 truths and a lie with CP1’s Jaime Leverton

Cloud News

The cloud has won in the market: What’s next?

TORONTO – With 30,000 current customers, 400 new clients per quarter, and a projected revenue of almost…

SoftwareOne upgrades Microsoft UC offering with acquisition

SoftwareOne has acquired and integrated House of Lync, a Microsoft High Touch Partner and part of Microsoft’s…

Quebec online backup solution provider partners with Microsoft

Quebec-based IT Cloud Solutions has become an official provider of Microsoft cloud business productivity solutions for Office…

Canadian executives aren’t prepared for a cloud-based future

TORONTO – Canadian executives are slow on the draw when it comes to cloud technology, according to…

Mitel reveals new global cloud UC solution

Mitel is expanding its cloud footprint to more than 40 countries worldwide with the launch of World…

CEA 2016 Best Cloud Solution Winners

The Montreal-based Orckestra Inc. has been described by industry pundits as one of the best up-and-coming solution…

Two Quebec area solution providers merge

Business intelligence firm, Exia, and and technology infrastructure solutions firm, GTO Gestion Informatique, have announced a merger,…

Pure Storage introduces petabyte-scale flash storage for the cloud

Independent solid-state array vendor, Pure Storage, has announced new petabyte-scale storage for mission-critical cloud IT, anchored by…

Salesforce partners will get access to Einstein AI next year

The independent software vendors (ISVs) – or “app innovation” partners as Salesforce.com Inc. now refers to them…

AWS Canada outlines cloud-first model for tomorrow

TORONTO – Amazon Web Services plans to unveil its first data centre and regional office in Montreal…

Salesforce & Sage partner for new workflow tools

SAN FRANCISCO — Small and medium-sized businesses that use Sage to manage their accounting and some aspect…

Salesforce acquisitions getting some play at Dreamforce

SAN FRANCISCO – Salesforce.com Inc. put two very recent acquisitions front and centre as it opened up…

Microsoft launches AI and research team

Microsoft announces new AI and Research Group helmed by Harry Shum on the heels of the reveal for Partnership on AI, a non-profit organization that Microsoft has created in collaboration with other tech giants.