December 24, 2014
This year, we decided to add an element of adventure to our Christmas party by allowing our neighbor, Hub Climbing to host our annual Kid’s Christmas Party. On December 20, 2014, we walked into one of the largest climbing and bouldering gyms in Canada (18,000 square feet of space) where Hub staff watched parents struggle…
August 6, 2014
This is really what it’s about for most firms: the cost. There are many ingredients to executing a reliable and scalable service. Reliability is a simple but useful term because it is a stand-in and abstraction for many of the related attributes of a good service: security, currency, fault-tolerance, redundancy — reliability is the end…
July 9, 2014
A provider can offer anything from raw ingredients for programmers to build online services and applications from scratch, all the way up to highly industry- and problem-specific applications, along with the management and maintenance required. There’s a place and market for these services. Anything from files to desktops and video conferencing can be run from…
June 20, 2014
If you suspect that cloud is an over-used marketing term, you’d be right, but to only to an extent. Executed properly, the technologies underlying modern cloud based services provide new and always improving levels of reliability and scale. These technologies drop the barriers to benefit, and in business terms, this opens up new opportunities by…
June 16, 2014
At least that’s the impression left by ads for cloud services with which we are regularly inundated. The definition of cloud and what it’s good for is still a puzzling concept for many, and to figure out how to put it to good use is unfortunately left to the everyday businessperson. Cloud need not be…
February 12, 2014
In February 2014, the renovations to our Tier III certified facility will be completed. We have significantly increased our data centre floor space to help serve our clients better. Over the past year, Pathway has seen a substantial increase in the demand for data centre services from our customer base, as a result, we have…
January 27, 2014
From policies and practices… Without exception, consumers at companies need to take a greater interest in the privacy policies governing how data is handled by their technology providers, this ties in with the previous remarks about informed trust. The questions aren’t limited to the technology measures a supplier uses to maintain confidence, but rather about…
January 27, 2014
Think in 3 P’s and criticality People, processes and parts are the 3 Ps that are often subject to scrutiny and hardening. Things that are heavily relied upon to handle data such as people, methods, software, hardware, and equipment pose potential business risks to DSPs and their customers. In some industries and in certain processes,…
January 27, 2014
Data privacy today We seem to be greeted with weekly news of new security breaches or revelations of intercepted traffic. The data and Managed Services market, with its multi-billion dollar growth, isn’t likely to be affected as much and will be able to open up opportunities for companies. These opportunities range from having different ways…