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Washington, DC-based Blackboard has announced the official opening of a new data centre in Calgary to support growing interest from Canadian institutions for an in-region facility to host and manage their learning environments. The centre, which began production earlier this year, already hosts systems for several Canadian higher education institutions including Dalhousie University, the University of Ottawa and George Brown College. Read the rest of this entry »

Sprylogics International Corp. has signed a Letter of Intent to license Sprylogics’ Semantic Search Technology to Softection PTY Limited (“Softection”) of Australia. Softection develops Digital Asset Protection (“DAP”) Enterprise solutions in the Data Loss Protection marketplace (which is growing at a rate of 20% per year according to The Radicati Group of Palo Alto, CA).  Their current technology protects an organization’s sensitive digital assets through encryption, logging and tracking. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for FedNor encouraged federal public servants gathered at PSEngage to further collaborate and interact with their government, and other Canadians, through social media. Read the rest of this entry »

To support the growth of the tech sector, Granite Networks has emerged as the first and only Tier 3 data center in Eastern Ontario, by building the largest independent hosting facility of any kind in Ottawa. Data centres act as warehouses for hundreds and thousands of networked computer servers, storing everything from videos and music, to emails and webpages, to online games and business transactions, and enabling users around the globe to connect and access this information around the clock. Read the rest of this entry »

PARTA Dialogue Inc.,a company that specializes in Social Media Campaign Optimization, is proud to announce the release of groundbreaking research it claims as the first step towards a universal method for calculating the return on investment of corporate social media campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »

Cloudcor® has announced that cloud and hosting service provider ViaWest has been named a premier partner for UP 2011, a hybrid format Cloud Computing Conference taking place December 5 – 9 2011 at the Computer History Museum and broadcast globally via the internet. Read the rest of this entry »