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Broadly connecting Canadian Infrastructure and Development Managers through career, industry and technology insight.
MVA Course Of The Week
Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 02/19/2014
Free ebooks: Now on the Microsoft Virtual Academy site
Browse the selection of free e-books available on Microsoft Virtual Academy here. From technical...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 02/19/2014
Chat with executive Patrick Zelten, noted authority on managed services
Patrick Zelten manages the Managed Services practice that helps clients manage risk and cost to...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 02/17/2014
Chat with Elizabeth Southerlan, Global Expert on Strategy, EA, Transformation, Operations Improvement
Elizabeth Southerlan works as an Associate for strategy and management consulting firm Oliver Wyman;...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 02/10/2014
Register for February 27 ACM Webcast: "Achieve Massively Parallel Acceleration with GPUs"
Register TODAY for the next free ACM Webcast, "Achieve Massively Parallel Acceleration with...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 02/04/2014
Meet new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
With a perspective based on more than two decades at Microsoft as someone who pushed to make dynamic...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 02/04/2014
Chat on EA — Robert Damashek Chief Architect Binary Group, Noted EA Authority
Robert Damashek has over thirty-seven years experience in enterprise architecture (EA) and...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 01/28/2014
What a week, my CES Highlights
Here are my stories and highlights from the international CES 2014 appearing with IT World Canada:...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 01/23/2014
Chat on FEAPO, EA, Agile — David Chesebrough, President Association for Enterprise Information, Vice-President National Defense Industrial Association
David E. Chesebrough, P.E., President of the Association for Enterprise Information and...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 01/20/2014
Chat--Crystal Freese, Innovating Microsoft Windows 8 App Developer
Crystal Freese is a student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and will graduate in the...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 01/20/2014
Register for January 23 Webcast with Don Gotterbarn and Keith Miller, "Computing Professionalism: Do Good and Avoid Evil..."
Register TODAY for the next free ACM Webcast, "Computing Professionalism: Do Good and Avoid...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 01/20/2014
Chat--Mark Smed, IT and Networking Expert, NPA Board Director, NPA Journal Publisher and Chief Editor
Mark Smed started as a self-employed consultant, integrating computers into small business in 1989....
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 01/02/2014
Inaugural Awards to Honour Outstanding Achievement in App Creation by High School, College and Graduate School Students
The Kay Family Foundation, a grant-making foundation located in Orange County, CA and established in...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/05/2013
December 17 Webcast with Barry Boehm: "The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM): Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software"
Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Webcast, "The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/03/2013
Nov. 20 Webcast with Kate Matsudaira: "Big Data Without Big Database—Extreme In-Memory Caching for Better Performance"
Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Learning Center Webcast, "Big Data Without Big...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/05/2013
INVITATION - Microsoft Office 365 Virtual Event
The workplace is changing. Today, over 70% of employees work outside the office, yet over 40% of...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/01/2013
Andy Chen, President and CEO Catronic, Past CTO and Vice President Ontario Power Generation
Andy Chen, P. Eng. President & CEO, Catronic Computer Consultant Services Inc. Andy Chen is a...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/28/2013
Chat with Shafi Goldwasser ACM Turing Award recipient in 2013 (Nobel Prize of Computing); World-renowned distinguished researcher and professor MIT and Weismann Institute
Professors Shafi Goldwasser (r) and Silvio Micali (l) Turing Award Recipients in 2013. Photo by...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/21/2013
Is Your Organization Working Social?
Social media in an enterprise setting has always been a "no-no" in terms of utilization. Concerns...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 10/20/2013
Chat with Silvio Micali ACM Turing Award recipient in 2013 (Nobel Prize of Computing); World-renowned distinguished researcher and professor MIT
Professors Silvio Micali (l) and Shafi Goldwasser (r) Turing Award Recipients in 2013. Photo by...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/15/2013
October 29 ACM Webcast with Alain Chesnais: "3D on the Web — Introduction to WebGL"
Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Webcast, "3D on the Web — Introduction to...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/10/2013
Chat: Terry Coatta Globally Acclaimed Entrepreneur, Executive, Platform Software Architect and Developer
Terry is currently CTO for Marine Learning Systems. Marine Learning Systems is an eLearning software...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/29/2013
September 25 ACM Webcast with Johannes Ullrich: "The Security Impact of IPv6
Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Webcast, "The Security Impact of IPv6,"...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Date: 09/15/2013
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals or MVPs: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?
I get questions all the time about MVPs so I wrote a current blog for IT World Canada covering all...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/09/2013
Infrastructure Planning with System Centre 2012 and Windows Server 2012
Hello Folks, Planning your infrastructure with Systems Centre 2012 and Windows Server 2012 in mind...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 08/05/2013
August 27 ACM Webcast with Tom Mitchell of CMU: "Never-Ending Learning to Read the Web"
One of the great technical challenges in big data is to construct computer systems that learn...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 08/01/2013
A Journey is always easier with a MAP: Windows Server 2012 Migration Tools
I'm sure you heard the news regarding our new version of our server OS. Windows Server 2012 R2 (the...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 07/21/2013
Bill Gates, Krysta Svore, Doug Burger, David Pennock on social and scientific advances-from prediction engines to quantum computing breakthroughs--Microsoft Research Faculty Summit to Be Streamed Live July 15
From the ACM Bulletin on this noteworthy event: ”Join us for a broadcast of the Microsoft Research...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 07/02/2013
Chat: Microsoft Corp Senior Director Dharmesh Mehta: Top Global Cool Tech Authority
Dharmesh talks about trends: where/why/how files are being saved across devices, classical social...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 06/27/2013
Register for July 17 ACM-SIGHPC Learning Webcast, "Changing How Programmers Think about Parallel Programming"
Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Webcast, "Changing How Programmers Think about...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 06/24/2013
Private, Hybrid, Public: What Cloud Keeps Your Organization Connected?
Which cloud service is right for my organization? Microsoft prides itself in providing three base...
Author: Chris Di Lullo Date: 06/17/2013
What’s New in Windows 8.1
Microsoft built Windows 8 to bring a modern computing experience to businesses and to help...
Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 06/11/2013
Windows Server 2012 & System Center 2012 Workshop
Take part in an introductory workshop that will provide you an overview of System Center Server 2012...
Author: Chris Di Lullo Date: 06/11/2013
Your IT Career: Taking the Next Step
With summer months quickly approaching, most IT professionals look forward to the down time to be...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 06/03/2013