Gary Hilson

Gary Hilson is a Toronto-based freelance writer who has written thousands of words for print and pixel in publications across North America. His areas of interest and expertise include software, enterprise and networking technology, memory systems, green energy, sustainable transportation, and research and education. His articles have been published by EE Times, SolarEnergy.Net, Network Computing, InformationWeek, Computing Canada, Computer Dealer News, Toronto Business Times and the Ottawa Citizen, among others.

Articles by Gary Hilson

Hardware still plays an innovative role in software-defined networking

Data centre is leading the SDN charge, but the service provider space is catching up and looking for granular programmability in networking hardware

Canadian contact centre software provider snags its first U.S. customer

Minnesota-based contact centre operator SatCom has tapped Montreal’s Quovim C3 to handle its existing Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Centre platform as well as new operations in Florida

Why a storage agnostic enterprise approach can offer greater flexibility across data protocols

Automatically moving data based on performance requirements used to be limited to a single array, now it can be done across a data centre and into the cloud

Report: Only half of Canadian businesses are getting hooked on IoT, but those that do see an ROI

A survey commissioned by Telus reveals that successful early IoT adopters decide to scale up quickly

FICO fights cyber crime with iboss using fraud detection IP

FICO’s artificial intelligence-based Cyber Analytics will be made part of iboss’s node-based, direct-to-cloud, and containerized cybersecurity and malware protection platform

Eight things you should know about cloud computing in the enterprise

A recent Intel Security reveals that over the next 12 to 18 months, enterprise budgets will be largely focused on public cloud resources

Cybercriminals are a motivated, patient lot: how the end-to-end data theft cycle keeps on rolling

Much attention is given to hacks and breaches and the malware that causes them, but is the cycle of data theft and monetization much longer and more involved than most realize?

Enterprises should take a step back to decide what Apple vs. the FBI means to them

An IDC security analyst says the situation has become emotionally and politically charged -- but suggests organizations focus on what it means from an IT risk perspective

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