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

IT departments must prepare for the impact of commercial drone deployment

In the long run, drones will not be all that different from other endpoints generating data for enterprises that has to be stored, processed and secured

Canada lags U.S. in adopting help desk software as email, spreadsheets still prevail

The technology has seen double digit growth for nearly two decades, with many organizations using it as a means to improve competitive advantage through better customer service

Centennial’s Police Foundations replaces pen and paper with mobile investigative software

SceneDoc allows students t complete electronic paperwork, create scene drawings, add multimedia files and take notes, either through text or voice dictation, using their smartphone or tablet

U of T and Dell Research collaborate on how to find expertise within an organization

The firm's first partnership with a Canadian university will develop tools and methodologies to mine enterprise data sets to discover hidden knowledge to solve problems

Canadian Cancer Society improves TCO, collaboration with Office 365

The national charity is giving Microsoft more money under the subscription model, but its overall IT costs have been reduced as a result

Agility in the application economy demands a unified view of IT infrastructure

IT departments are expected to support even faster applications and must break free of complexity if they are to be truly proactive and exceed expectations

7 personal file sharing services IT pros should watch for in the enterprise

There’s many online file sharing and cloud backup services, and a few that are widely adopted by users across different devices are more likely to find their way into large organizations without IT’s knowledge

Delete with confidence: The policies needed to support enterprise data growth

Schools and universities have unique challenges due to student and faculty churn that affect data management and policies, but there are lessons for any enterprise

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