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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

HyLife is high on the hog thanks to faster query times

Gary Hilson - March 21, 2016

Pork producer addressed latency data issues caused by virtualization through a combination of software and flash

Digital transformation is about what you aren’t going to do anymore, including DevOps

Gary Hilson - March 17, 2016

Part of the digital transformation process is understanding what the organization should no longer be doing -- and what skills to sunset, notes industry analyst

Microsoft SharePoint 2016: What you need to think about before about migrating

Gary Hilson - March 15, 2016

The latest on-premises version offers cloud-based benefits, but there are several key things to keep in mind when making the upgrade

Velostrata streams workloads into the cloud to assuage enterprise fears

Gary Hilson - March 11, 2016

Decoupling storage from compute enables customers to process workloads in AWS without being locked into it

Zero trust: Data breach prevention is all about breaking the kill chain

Gary Hilson - March 10, 2016

While the FUD factor can help make the case for privileged access management, demonstrating how a breach will be dealt with can convince senior management PAM is worth the investment

5G is coming and will have broader use cases, greater impact on data centres

Gary Hilson - March 9, 2016

IoT and 5G will be intertwined, so IT needs to start thinking about it now as new players from different vertical industries become a part of the ecosystem

Professional Engineers of Ontario opt for a single provider as part of IT transformation

Gary Hilson - March 7, 2016

Despite multiple vendors, the organization still lacked everything it needed to run its entire technology stack effectively and chose CentriLogic as a foundation to move forward with its strategic plan

Korean company targets Canadian market and incumbent vendors with latest DBMS

Gary Hilson - March 3, 2016

TmaxSoft says Tibero 6 is aimed at customers looking for a lower-cost alternative to Oracle

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Data centre capacity continues to shift to commercial providers

Gary Hilson - August 30, 2016

Swift development sees fast uptake since being open sourced

Gary Hilson - June 16, 2016

Breach notification reporting can be complicated without proper skills, tools

Gary Hilson - July 18, 2016

“Big iron” remains an IT mainstay as enterprises look to centralize and...

Gary Hilson - February 18, 2016

Hadoop in the enterprise: IT departments are struggling with two perennial issues

Gary Hilson - August 25, 2015