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The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor’. UPDATE: I am also presenting on this topic at the upcoming 13th annual eHealth Summit – Read more. Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing This will focus on the overall best practices for Mobile Big Data Cloud ... (more)

Our objective here at the Canada Cloud Network is to build a local forum for innovating global Cloud best practices. For example over here at Sheepdog our goal is to build one of Canada’s premier brands for expert Cloud consulting. Central to this is development of the ‘Cloud Rea... (more)

Recently Google commissioned Forrester Research to identify the TEI (Total Economic Impact) of moving to Google Apps, polling around 600 mid-sized firms about their collaboration plans. Download the report here: The Google Apps TEI Report from Forrester Research, used to to plan ... (more)

Although there are a number of suppliers in the Cloud market, most accept and note the primary dominance of Amazon, and the distinctions in scale of the Cloud that they operate. The Cloud providers market is like McDonalds – S, M, L and Super-size! So while there are announcement... (more)

A popular social media topic that is a great focus area for small businesses and other folks in sales is ‘Social Selling’ – This refers to using social media sites like Linkedin to help with your lead generation prospecting and other sales activities. For example this article Ho... (more)

The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD’ – Bring Your Own Doctor. In this March 4th article The Smartphone Will See You Now, the Canadian magazine McLeans reported on the work of the E-Health futurist Eric Topol. Topol describes the growing trend of patients using their ... (more)

The Forrester report ‘Total Impact of Google Apps‘ provides a framework for identifying the ROI from switching from a legacy mail and collaboration platform to Google Apps. Surveying 200+ organizations with over 1,000 employees, Forrester identified the main business benefits re... (more)

MaaS (Model as a Service) sets a new concept to order and classify data modeling design and deployment to the Cloud. MaaS changes the way to move data to the Cloud because allows to define data taxonomy, size and contents. Starting from data model design, MaaS might guide the Daa... (more)

Our next seminar is scheduled for April 24th in New York City, with a headline theme of Big Data Cloud Computing. Specifically the agenda will be how to build a Big Data PaaS – Platform as a Service. This combines the NIST Cloud model for the middleware stack with the corporate... (more)

Join my Sheepdog colleagues for a webinar on Thursday, March 21st at 12pm EST – Going Google Enterprise. Register here With a customer case study from Joe AbiDaoud, CIO for Hudbay Minerals, this webinar session will provide a comprehensive introduction to the Google+ Apps suite... (more)

For any modern entrepreneur I`d suggest the sweet spot of Cloud applications you should master is the holy trinity of these three killer apps – Linkedin, Salesforce.com and Google+ Apps. In short these cater for the end-to-end requirements of a sales operation, so you can begin ... (more)

It’s often said that BYOD – Bring Your Own Device, is part of a broader trend of “Consumerization”. In short staff are increasingly bringing their own home technologies into work, such as their smartphone, and using them for work purposes. It’s a blended experience where they als... (more)

Recently I’ve been lucky to meet with the CTO’s of two important Canadian public sector organizations, Canada Health Infoway and the Province of Ontario. Indeed Dennis Giokas kindly presented on Cloud Computing in Healthcare at our recent seminar in Toronto. This presentation w... (more)

Las Vegas, 4 March 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture. This move will ensure innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of unsecured and difficult... (more)

Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce the formation of the Cloud Identity and Security Best Practices (CloudIDSec WG). Find out below how to join this exciting new group! The core purpose of the CloudIDSec WG is to identify the overlap between the field of Cloud Computing an... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, 2013 — Firespotter Labs today announced the UberConference Google Apps Reseller Program. UberConference is a next generation audio conferencing service with a unique, visual interface. UberConference’s new channel partner program will be launching with... (more)

Our next Canada Cloud Seminar is now scheduled. On March 13th, at the downtown Toronto Business Development Centre, we will introduce ‘Always On Cloud Computing’. Keynote speakers will include Craig McLellan, previously the CTO for Hosting.com and author of the best practice prog... (more)

Courtesy of the Centre for Global EHealth Innovation we held our first CCN seminar last week, entitled Cloud Computing and disruptive business models for E-Health. The seminar focused on the disruptive and transformational impact new technologies like Cloud Computing and Open Da... (more)

Our first CCN Seminar is this week on Thursday, 21st, being held at the Global Centre for E-Health Innovation. Register here: Disruptive Business Models for E-Health. As the name suggests the headline theme of the session is to consider the potential impact of Cloud Computing on ... (more)

Another Canadian Cloud startup to highlight is Cloudiosphere. Their COO Liam Lynch has just posted up this in-depth article on the ‘Zero Trust Identity Model’ described a few blogs back. Another recommended piece to go along with this is Eve Maler presentation on The Three S’s Of... (more)