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Canada is on board the Kubernetes train, but still riding coach, says VMware

VMware’s Peter Near says 100 per cent of the executives he’s spoken to in recent months, including the ones in Canada, are planning to make Kubernetes a core part of app development.

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Canada is on board the Kubernetes train, but still riding coach, says VMware

VMware’s Peter Near says 100 per cent of the executives he’s spoken to in recent months, including the ones in Canada, are planning to make Kubernetes a core part of app development.

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CDN Morning Briefing, September 24, 2020 – Microsoft Ignite news roundup, and Reddit discusses what the cloud means today

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Microsoft Teams updates delivers new modes, background options, new walkie-talkie features, and MUCH more

At Microsoft Ignite, the tech giant unveiled a host of Teams updates including unique video meeting capabilities, calling updates, and admin controls among others.

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Microsoft Canada launches Azure Availability Zones in Canada

Microsoft Canada is launching availability zones in Canada, following through on a promise made in January and competing with similar infrastructure already rolled out by Google and Amazon Web Services.

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CDN Morning Briefing, September 14, 2020 – Nutanix news, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Reddit talks restaurant IT

Nutanix news, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Reddit talks restaurant IT

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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

Addressing Canada’s long wait times with OpenShift

By Catherine Morin Canadian patients often have to wait in pain for hours before being seen. The…

WebSan Solutions app helps clients keep track of operations

The multi-award-winning enterprise developed a Microsoft-based solution that gives one of their clients visibility into their sales and inventory.

Oracle and VMware partner up to support customers’ hybrid clouds

Oracle and VMware have announced an expanded partnership.

OVHcloud Partner Program arrives to Canada

Earlier this week, OVH announced that it is bringing its OVHcloud Partner Program to Canada.

Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010 has its end of support pushed back by nine months

Microsoft Corp. is pushing back its January 14, 2020 end of support date for Exchange Server 2010 by nine months.

Martello software now services over 1 million Mitel users

Ottawa’s Martello, the solutions provider for unified communication networks, has reached an important milestone with its big partner Mitel.

Canadian customers’ heads are still in the clouds, and so is VMware’s

Cloud is a force multiplier for Canadian businesses, but they’re still having a hard time figuring it out, says VMware

VMware goes on a shopping spree, scoops up Carbon Black and Pivotal for a combined $4.8B

It’s a pivotal moment for VMware Inc., which announced the acquisition of security company Carbon Black and…

Box announces new set of security controls for the enterprise

The cloud content management firm this morning announced Box Shield, a new set of content security controls and intelligent threat detection capabilities.

OVH launches its managed kubernetes service in Canada

Hyper-scale cloud provider OVH announced this week the deployment of kubernetes on its servers in Canada.

Toronto-based data analytics firm becomes Microsoft’s go-to data and AI partner in Canada

Almost all CIOs agree that the cloud is a standard way to access services and systems quickly with minimal effort, and one of Microsoft analytics partners is finding creative ways to put that added computing power to use.

OpenText announces fresh partnerships and talks Google at Enterprise World

Partnerships were the name of the game at OpenText Enterprise World. Although no new programs for the channel were announced, the message was all about alignment.

IBM and Red Hat partners can sleep soundly, executives say after mega deal closes

As IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Tuesday, questions continued to swirl around the impact the move will have on partners and clients, which even IBM’s Arvind Krishna acknowledged was the “real challenge” ever since the deal was announced last October.