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Five questions to ask when choosing an SD-WAN partner
As your company expands and deploys new technologies, your IT team may encounter siloed systems throughout your business. Fortunately, emerging cloud-based solutions can help technology staff address these issues. And as software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN),...
Six security trends to watch for in 2020
Happy 2020! As a practitioner and consultant I’m excited to see what the year brings in terms of new technology, research, and clever Twitter and blog posts from the security community. To get the ball rolling, here are six security trends to keep your eye on as we...
Six Common Goals of Cloud Based Networks
With so many employees in today’s workplace relying on cloud-based apps to perform their jobs, network administrators are looking for better ways to ensure access and provide the required bandwidth. Increasingly, IT professionals are discovering the improved network...
The evolution of modern computing: serverless solutions versus containers
Serverless solutions versus containers–that is the question at the center of new trends in modern enterprise computing that seeks the best way to develop, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure in an era of new ideas, devices, and virtual experiences....
Why short-term IT staffing is essential to digital transformation
Amid all the hoopla about new technologies like the cloud, artificial intelligence, and virtual networking, one salient fact remains: technology is only as good as the people who operate it. The challenge many organizations face in the emerging digital economy,...
OnX to host CIO SD-WAN Summit in Toronto
Software Defined-Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions are one of the hottest IT trends of 2019. For Canadian companies with widely distributed locations, SD-WAN can improve enterprise WAN performance at remote sites, branch locations, and corporate locations, on any...
The rise of serverless computing and what it can mean for your business
Serverless computing is projected to be one of the top ten trends affecting digital infrastructure in 2019. By 2021, 90% of enterprises that use Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) will also use some type of serverless Platform as a Service (PaaS). While serverless...
Keys to managing a specialized workforce
Perhaps one of the most pointed issues for human resource executives is the need to plan for short-term specialized manpower, particularly when it comes to IT staffing.
Why government agencies should move DevTest to the cloud
Like virtually every other data-driven enterprise today, Canadian government agencies face the perennial challenge of doing more with less to serve their constituents. And like the rest of the world, this is inevitably leading agencies to review how they are consuming IT and supporting applications, and if they are better off with a public cloud alternative for some workloads. Leading the list is DevTest operations that can take advantage of the cloud’s speed, agility, and cost-savings without leading to worries about data theft and security.
SD-WAN delivers better cloud app performance
Canadian companies looking to expand nationally or into international markets often rely on employees at remote sites or branch locations to perform specific, regional needs. With so many of these remote workers adopting cloud-based apps like Microsoft Office 365,...
Using digital tools to build the new enterprise
Digital transformation is a complex, multi-faceted endeavor designed to convert the enterprise business model from the rigid, product-oriented functions of the past to a dynamic, flexible, service-based operational model of the future.
Executive search in times of technological change
Finding the right IT executive to manage a rapidly changing tech environment is proving to be one of the most significant challenges for the enterprise.
Building a better network to empower Canada’s mobile workforce
It's no secret to CIOs and their teams in organizations across Canada that today's employees are placing enormous demands on their enterprise networks. Not only are workers spread out among remote sites and branch offices, but they're also continually on the go and...
Team management: The new priority for today’s CIO
For today’s CIO, team management is just as important a factor to success as implementing the right technology. With data infrastructure pushing past the data center and even the cloud to the IoT edge, however, striking the right balance between internal and external...
OnX sister company awarded VMware 2018 Partner Innovation Award
Partners Awarded for Extraordinary Performance and Notable Achievements OnX is proud to announce that our sister company, CBTS, has received the Americas 2018 VMware Partner Innovation Award in the VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud Solution category. CBTS was...
Modernize apps and infrastructure, and the processes will follow
There is no question that virtualized cloud-native environments are the wave of the future for the modern enterprise. As digital services become core revenue-generators and the world becomes increasingly reliant on the Internet of Things, businesses that cling to the...
Are you ready for SD-WAN?
For Jon Lloyd, Solutions Design Engineer at OnX and CBTS, SD-WAN is a networking technology that unshackles customers from expensive telco carriers and non-agile networks. But there’s still some confusion about what it can do. Jon sat down with VMware Canada to...
Six reasons IT leaders choose UCaaS
OnX UCaaS centralizes all of your collaboration tools on a managed cloud platform, to significantly improve the effectiveness of your teams.
IT Security: ways to win the cyberwar
You’re an IT Security Specialist. It’s your job to protect your company from cyberattack after cyberattack. Make no mistake, the enemy–hackers, attackers, criminals–will never stop in their cyberwar, whether they wish to destroy your computing environment, corrupt...
To effectively protect network infrastructure, IT security technicians need to leverage both offensive and defensive tools
Any IT Security technician will benefit from knowing all the tools available, when it comes to fighting, preventing, or recovering from cyberattacks. We have discussed a few of those tools in a previous entry–the benefits of studying an attacker’s mindset, as well as...
Managed Disaster Recovery using Microsoft Azure
Most enterprises have a complicated relationship with their on-premise Disaster Recovery (DR) ecosystem. Not only is it expensive to build and maintain in-house, but it provides little value to day-to-day business operations. It’s only saving grace is that it is...
What’s the ROI of owning a data center vs. managed cloud services?
Early adopters embraced the cloud as soon as they were able to do so, and now that the robustness and ROI of cloud services have been proven, more and more companies are joining the move to the cloud. Some businesses are still hanging back. Why? Budget constraints...
Lessons learned From 2018: Patch management remains a challenge
Patch management remains one of the most important IT tasks for organizations in 2019. Without patching and remediation tools, businesses are vulnerable to malicious attacks. Even if a patch is available and can prevent an incident, most organizations lack the IT...
IT recruiters deliver better outcomes than AI
Is AI (Artificial Intelligence) capable of displacing IT recruiters? There’s no denying that AI has been a game-changer across all industries that have adopted it – improving the operating methods of organizations from the ground upward. Incorporating AI into daily...
3 Steps to transforming your business with Unified Communications
Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is the next step to placing your business on the fast-track for success. By providing your personnel with a single platform for voice, video and text communications that is cloud-based, you’ll give them the ability to...
OnX IT Staffing and Consulting Services help CIOs fill the IT efficiency gap
The IT efficiency gap – the shortage of top talent to fill the needs of businesses across Canada, continues to grow. The top IT technicians are in such demand that, according to a recent survey at CIO.com, almost half of the businesses looking to hire an individual...
SD-WAN: Rethinking enterprise networks for Canada’s distributed, mobile workforce
Today's Canadian enterprise workers are more distributed, more mobile than ever. With SaaS-powered options at their fingertips, employees at remote sites and branch offices from St. John’s to Vancouver Island, and corporate locations across the globe have access to...
What Canadian Maritime businesses should look for in data protection and managed services solutions provider
Many Canadian businesses have access to numerous data protection solution providers, but, most cloud-enabled data centers are in the greater Toronto and Quebec City areas. When it comes to disaster recovery, regional back up, and cloud services, business in the...
4 steps for a successful public cloud migration for Canadian government organizations
Adopting public cloud technologies can help Canadian government agencies adapt to their most pressing IT challenges. Once you realize the appeal of the cloud, the next challenge is figuring out how to migrate IT workloads to the cloud. In our experience at OnX, a...
Common excuses that stop companies from migrating to the cloud
Not all organizations are fully on board with embracing a “cloud first” strategy and are firmly in the “if it’s not broken don’t fix it” position. That’s perfectly understandable. IT operations have thousands of variables that must be carefully tweaked to keep...
Calculating the costs of managing your own data center vs. a managed cloud solution
Declines in the costs of bandwidth, computing, and storage make cloud computing more attractive every year. Indeed, maturing cloud technologies are creating economies that encourage outsourcing cloud operations to an expert managed services provider. These economies...
Top IT challenges facing Canadian government organizations
Canadian governments face pressures from all sides. Regulators require robust data governance. Citizens demand the latest digital and mobile technologies. Legacy systems are riddled with redundancies and incompatibilities. Cloud technologies can help governments meet...
7 questions you should ask a prospective managed cloud provider
Finding the right managed cloud provider for your business can be a daunting process and one that you want to get right the first time. By necessity, it has to be because you’re talking about handing core IT workloads over to a third party who will take on the...
How getting out of the data center business delivers exponential return on investment
Shifting IT workloads to the cloud can be a prudent, productive investment in the success of your company—if you play your cards right. You’ll need to reorient your ideas about investing in technology. After all, cloud providers are the ones making significant...
Why disaster recovery is an investment in your company’s future success
When you weigh your disaster recovery (DR) options, it’s crucial to frame the issue accurately. Is DR a luxury “nice to have” with regard to both time and money—or is it an investment in the future success of your business? If you think of disaster recovery as a cost,...
CIO guide to disaster recovery: 5 lessons learned the hard way
The trouble with disaster recovery is you’re planning for events that are, by definition, unexpected. Nobody knows for certain when or where a hurricane will do the most damage. Power outages strike without warning, and ransomware attacks come from out of the blue. If...
CIO field guide: How to successfully navigate a successful path to the cloud
Many businesses are turning toward cloud for its flexibility, scalability, cost savings, and a chance to offload data center duties. The trouble is that the further we move into a cloud-enabled future, the tougher it gets to figure out which cloud platforms make the...
The CIO’s guide to finding your perfect fit for cloud computing
From solo entrepreneurs sharing spreadsheets on Google Drive to corporate behemoths maintaining operations around the world, there’s a cloud option for nearly every situation. The challenge is finding the right mix for your specific needs and unique business...
What’s your path to the right hyperconverged solution?
When it comes to finding the “right” hyperconverged infrastructure solution for your evolving data center, nothing is ever easy. The process involves deciding which vendors to work with, choosing the ideal platforms to base your infrastructure on, and countless other...
OnX shows: Intel Optane SSDs more than double SDS cache performance
Data center storage infrastructures must meet stringent requirements for availability, reliability, and performance. That’s why software-defined storage (SDS) solutions such as VMware’s Virtual SAN (vSAN) continue to grow at a rapid pace, delivering major value in...
OnX awarded Cisco Master of Security Certification
OnX, a CBTS company, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Cisco Master of Security Certification. The certification includes the following Cisco practice areas: Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Next Generation IPS (NGIPS) Policy and Access...
Why DR to Azure is the Right Data Protection Solution for Your Company
When you choose a disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) provider, you have to make sure your cloud option is the best fit for your company. Since so many companies already use Microsoft technologies, they like the idea of staying in the same software family and...
Top 5 Issues Enterprises Face in the Digital Workplace
It’s never easy for enterprises to keep pace with the latest technologies — but the rise of the digital workplace often gives them no choice. It’s all about bring-your-own-device and chasing the latest cloud collaboration tools — all the while dealing with shrinking...
3 Must-Haves for Adopting Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Retailers finally have the tools they need to lock in customer loyalty and fend off competitors. One of the best toolsets comes from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, which lets retailers fold artificial intelligence and predictive analytics into the mobile-first,...
Allow Your Customers to Drive Your eCommerce Evolution with Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Customers do a great job of revealing their desires and motivations to digital retailers — every click, every swipe, every abandoned shopping cart provides valuable insights. All the data from these interactions gives a huge advantage to online retailers, especially...
3 Questions to Ask Before Your eCommerce Platform Reaches End of Life
eCommerce platforms that set the standard for retailers just a few years ago are no longer able to keep up with the demands of today's savvy shoppers. Many of these eCommerce platforms require significant upgrades or even rip-and-replace implementations to stay...
OnX is Now a CBTS Company — What Does This Mean for You?
We are excited to announce that as of today — Monday, October 2, 2017 — OnX Enterprise Solutions is officially a CBTS company, bringing meaningful scale, service and product offerings, and client diversification to both companies. Together, CBTS and OnX will deliver...
4 Steps to Accelerate Your Azure Deployment: Fast Track
If you’ve made up your mind to move IT workloads to Microsoft Azure Public Cloud, you probably want to find the quickest path to speed the transition along and ensure that the deployment is configured properly from the get-go. There are good reasons for that. Data,...
A Smart Approach to Moving Workloads to the Hyperscale Cloud
Hyperscale public cloud technologies open up tremendous opportunities for efficiency and elasticity for production workloads, backup, and disaster recovery, just to name a few. But for IT staff, a key question often arises: Which workloads are best suited for...
Why Your Security Program Must Include Proactive Zero-Day Defense Protection
Zero-day vulnerabilities and attacks are the phantom menace of the IT department — representing security vulnerabilities that hackers know about but no one else does. Zero-day exploits can pose particularly harrowing threats in environments that lack stringent...
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