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

Cybercrime is evolving to be more personal and surreptitious

Criminals are finding subtler ways of stealing data and are patient about finding ways to monetize an organization’s intellectual property at a later date

Letting go of WiFi control helps IT to enhance mobile productivity and customer experience

By spending less time managing infrastructures, IT can help the business leverage its WiFi connectivity to help make strategic business decisions

Infobright speeds up data queries with better math

Rather than worrying about getting an exact answer to every query, the InfoBright Approximate Query looks to get close enough until it’s necessary to be correct

Better ROI is coming to a hospital near you as remote monitoring, big data and other digital health technologies gain traction

Research firm Tractica sees 10 trends taking shaping digital health evolves to improve the bottom line of organizations and patient care

“Big iron” remains an IT mainstay as enterprises look to centralize and secure data in hybrid environments

The mainframe has a reputation for being secure, but one of the barriers for encryption adoption have been performance concerns, especially for high transaction applications

Monitoring tool helps IT staff mind the gaps between apps, virtual and physical infrastructure

Uila sees an opportunity to improve performance and troubleshoot problems by looking at packets on virtual switches

Worldwide LTE coverage is still patchy in spots, but overall deployments are progressing quickly

While the U.S. and Japan have built the largest 4G infrastructures, they are not necessarily the fastest, but in general, LTE coverage speeds are continuing to improve after five consecutive years of deployments

VMware focuses on end user productivity with Workspace ONE, Horizon updates

By leveraging recent mobile management acquisitions and virtualization heritage, the company is looking to make it easy for IT departments to deliver any app or service to any device via a single cloud

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