Cloud rumblings from Canada

Cloud rumblings from Canada

Cloud initiatives and investment announcements in Canada are starting to heat up with our own recent plug declaring our $20 million investment in data center expansion and deployment of a dual data center, multi-tenant cloud solution, aimed at the mid-large enterprise...
What really is a cloud?

What really is a cloud?

Many articles have been written about what the Cloud is or is not.  In the spirit of the college entrance exam season (you remember the ACT and SAT?), I thought I would start out with a “simple” question – What really is a Cloud?  Is it: Just another...
Cloud readiness assessment

Cloud readiness assessment

OnX recently completed a Cloud Readiness Assessment for clients in both Eastern and Western Canada, and the similarities were striking. Both organizations had made the move several years ago to hosting equipment with a data center provider to save money, and both had...
How to keep up with data recovery requirements

How to keep up with data recovery requirements

My investment in storage assets to handle massive data growth is going through the roof, and worse yet, I can’t keep up with my (DR) data recovery requirements to protect my business. What can I do? With the explosive growth in organizational data and virtual server...
Mike Cardy featured on CRN

Mike Cardy featured on CRN

The following is a statement from Cardy and others in OnX’s office of the CTO. “Cloud Computing at the CIO and IT Director levels will transform from a “nice idea” to a “how do we deploy” discussion, with most organizations considering pilots of a Private or Federated...
Crossing roles in the IT environments

Crossing roles in the IT environments

Regardless of what you mean by cloud computing and whether you are building a private cloud, public cloud or a hybrid cloud one thing is for sure: the three pillars of the IT infrastructure – servers, storage and network are getting more intertwined and...