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Will the Amazon incident scare off Canadian cloud customers?

If nothing else, the cloud computing outage heard 'round the world is now over, and the world did not come to an end. That...

Canadian CIOs say they’re treated as C-suite peers

A global survey by consulting firm Deloitte shows some positive momentum for the long-held goal of aligning IT with the business, but there's still work to do around "demand management"

Parenthood, progressive elaboration and the potential of IT managers

A lot happened in the four months I spent working part-time hours: An earthquake in Japan, a royal wedding, a federal election and the...

Gartner: The cloud gotchas CIOs need to avoid

The research firm publishes a special report on cloud sourcing that examines the differences between the new model and traditional outsourcing, and the skills needed for a successful transition

CIOCAN appoints Gary Davenport president

The VP of IT at Allstream and former chief information officer at HBC discusses the CIO of Assocation of Canada's priorities, including the three most likely cities to launch new chapters

What A CIO Should Know: Lessons from the Spartans

Our monthly collection of useful links to articles, videos and events includes an unusual look at data centre management, Canadian security research and a call for speakers

Maple Leaf Foods’ ERP system project: A CIO strategy

The Canadian packaged foods giant is working on a five-year business plan to turn itself around. Jeff Hutchinson explains how moving from 30 ERP systems to one instance of SAP will contribute to the transformation

Rank the worst of the cloud’s 7 deadly sins

Cloud computing is not the devil, but apparently temptations abound.  My colleague Anthony Savvis at Computerworld U.K. recently wrote about a report from the...

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