Charles King

Rola Dagher, who most recently served as president of Cisco Systems Canada, is a deeply experienced executive who helped lead the channel organization at Bell Canada for 13 years before spending nearly five years in Dell’s Enterprise segment and Infrastructure Solutions Group. Thus, she has proven leadership skills, along with considerable channel experience, both of […]

Upcoming products, advances and innovations are part and parcel of every technology conference, from the smallest vendor confab to massive events like CES and MWC. So, it was no surprise that at this week’s Hot Chips 2020, the annual IEEE symposium that focuses on high performance microprocessors, much of the spotlight focused on next-generation microprocessors, […]

Notebook PC sales surpassed desktop sales over a decade ago and unless unlikely shifts occur in user behavior, notebooks, 2-in-1s and other mobile computing devices are likely to remain ascendant. That point is doubly clear this year, as the COVID-19 global pandemic forced tens of thousands of businesses to find ways to support tens of […]

Habits are hard to break in the best of times. Ingrained optimism recommends staying the course, no matter how ineffectual or even painful it might be. That is especially true when it comes to business technologies. Though numerous organizations regularly investigate various new hardware and software offerings, longstanding solutions are often unaccountably bulletproof.  But in […]

Reorganizations are a fact of life in business and can reflect any number of issues or events, including financial issues or concerns, decisions to refocus the business, and missteps in leadership or execution. But a fundamental reordering of core strategies and the departure of the executive responsible are far less common. That’s exactly what happened […]

It’s often said that “data is the new oil,” and considering the accelerating rate at which organizations are creating and using digital information to further their business efforts, it’s hard to disagree. But its fundamental value has also resulted in data and its owners coming under regular attack by bad actors ranging from kids on […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) projects can incorporate a wide variety of computing and data storage technologies and services. However, enterprises hoping to use AI to gain or add value to their businesses must be especially vigilant when it comes to planning and enabling these projects. Commercial solutions vary significantly in terms of quality and performance. More […]

That computing technologies are constantly evolving is indisputable, but an associated issue that is seldom discussed is that the terms we use to describe technology solutions are largely calcified. Personal computers (PCs) once denoted cumbersome desktop products that almost entirely ran on Intel silicon, ran some version of Microsoft Windows and utilized packaged software applications. […]

Edge computing is evolving rapidly, partly because of ongoing improvements in the underlying technologies and partly because our understanding of what it takes to develop and deliver successful solutions continues to mature. That is especially true in the case of emerging commercial applications, like the next-gen video processing that is central to emerging 5G mobile […]

It is difficult to think of an industry that has been more deeply involved with and fundamentally transformed by computing technologies than financial services, especially via their engagements with IBM. After all, some of the earliest workplace solutions that banks employed were mechanical calculators–literally the “Business Machines” in IBM’s acronym. Those devices eventually were replaced […]