Category Archives: Q&As

Hu Yoshida: Hitachi’s new storage platform

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur

12 Oct 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, elaborates on key concepts behind the company’s Virtual Storage Platform and Command Suite management software, which act as a stepping stone to data centre virtualization. A series of 8 clips.

Citrix exec on the VMLogix acquisition

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur

30 Aug 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Citrix’s CMO explains what the VMLogix acquisition means for customers and what to expect from Citrix going forward in a Q&A at IT World Canada.

Michael Scissons on social media in business

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur

04 Aug 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

The 26-year-old CEO of burgeoning Canadian start-up Syncapse talks about the challenges businesses face, where social media could be in five years and why Toronto wasn’t really the Facebook capital of the world.

 

B.C.’s CIO: Why citizens deserve self-service

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur

20 Jul 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Dave Nikolejsin talks about next-generation citizen services, identity management and getting “the hard stuff” online.

Nunavut’s CIO: Why citizens deserve self-service

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur

12 Jul 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Peter Baril talks about next-generation citizen services, identity management, why lines between jurisdictions need to disappear and how tech needs to filter feedback for politicians.

Lac Carling 2010: Q&A with David Eaves

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur

17 Jun 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

David Eaves discusses open data in Canadian government. Where the three levels of government stand, how Canada compares to other nations and whether top-down support is necessary. Plus, open vs. default vs. common standards.

Interview with Ann Cavoukian: privacy, smart grids, best practices

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur

16 Jun 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

An interview with Ontario’s privacy commissioner, the first to release best practices for protecting privacy on smart grids in partnership with two of Canada’s largest utility companies.

 

Like Firefox? Try Thunderbird 3

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Jennifer Kavur

10 Dec 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Thunderbird 3 literally borrows the best ideas from Firefox and applies them to e-mail, says Mozilla Messaging CEO in a one-on-one with ComputerWorld Canada. What gives Mozilla’s free, open source and cross-platform e-mail application an edge over Outlook.

Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source clouds

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Jennifer Kavur

10 Sep 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Rich Wolski, UCSB professor and CTO of recently-established Eucalyptus Systems, discusses the company’s first commercial product for the enterprise – an open source private cloud platform that supports Amazon AWS APIs and leverages VMware.

— reprinted by ComputerworldUK.com, Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source private clouds

EMC pushes enterprises toward private clouds

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Jennifer Kavur

02 Sep 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Nina Hargus, vice-president of Global Services Marketing for EMC, discusses large-scale enterprise private cloud deployments and 30 new services and solutions added to EMC’s portfolio.

Mobile Nation: People and their devices

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Jennifer Kavur

26 Nov 2008, ComputerWorld Canada

The editors of a new anthology on the social nature of mobile technology discuss user behaviour, design trends and the future of mobile technology. 

Cultivating the American Dream

Posted on September 1, 2001 by Jennifer Kavur

Just-in-Time Teaching

Posted on July 1, 2001 by Jennifer Kavur