Shane Schick

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Articles by Shane Schick

The new IT vendor landscape in 2012

INFOGRAPHIC A hand-picked selection of the technology company mergers and acquisitions that mattered this year, from IBM and Oracle to Microsoft, HP, Salesforce.com and more

When HANA meets Hadoop

SAP's in-memory database is becoming core to its long-term strategy, and an announcent at its Influencer Summit earlier this week may explain how it will gain broader support

Enterprise mobility apps: Meet a CIO who has 40 of them

Boston Scientific's Rich Adduci talks about how he's worked with SAP to create a portfolio of tools that help market medical devices on tablets like iPads. Plus: SAP's 2012 plans for its app store

CIOs grapple with instinct versus data-driven decisions

At SAP Influencer Summit 2011, IT leaders from Ferrero, CSC and others discuss the challenge of creating a culture of analytics, their attitudes towards the cloud and BYOD

Can Canada use the cloud as a competitive advantage?

VIDEO Most discussions of cloud computing are about the benefits to individual organizations. In the last of five clips, our debaters look at the potential impact on the country as a whole

March Networks acquired by China’s Infinova for $90M

After suffering through economic hard times, the Ottawa tech firm will continue to operate under its own name under the terms of a proposed deal

The cloud security issues Canadian CIOs fear most

VIDEO Some CIOs are still reluctant to open up processes and data to third parties. Are cloud security issues overblown? Watch the fourth of our five-part debate

The CIO’s big cloud decision: On-premise or off?

VIDEO Traditional IT outsourcing has been challenging enough, but what about moving infrastructure and data out of the organization to a third party? Our two debaters tackle their toughest question yet

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