In this episode, we will her from Simo Vujovic, Director of Cloud Managed Services at IBM Canada on the three models that companies can use to get to the cloud and how cloud first mentality should be from the top down in migrating to the cloud.

Nestor Arellano from IT in Canada recently caught up with Simo Vujovic to talk about the migration to the cloud. Hear more about cost, speed and innovation and how companies can incur lower cost and at the same time be faster on the cloud.

Follow Simo on Twitter:@simolj

In the show today, we will hear from Daren Hanson, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at TeraGo who will talk about disaster recovery and how a business can develop an effective disaster recovery plan.

In this episode, Daren talks some the risks of a disaster, what would be considered an effective disaster recovery plan, control measures a business can put in place to reduce the risk of a disaster and the steps a company can take to set up a DR plan.

All this and more on this critical topic on WRLWND Radio.

For more information, go to: http://www.terago.ca/business-internet-data-cloud-services/cloud-services-for-business/disaster-recovery-services/

Amazon is inching closer to bring us the 1-click car buying feature to make buying a new car online easier, also we will talk about the tech jobs that are projected to have salary increases in 2017 and a simple thing you can do to increase the battery life of your Android phone by nearly 20 per cent. All this and more in this episode of WRLWND Radio.

To view the white papers that we talked about in the show, go to: http://ibmdataandcloud.pagedemo.co. Brought to you by IBM.

In the show today we will hear from Chris Barry, Vice President of Enterprise & Partner Group at Microsoft Canada on cloud adoption in Canadian businesses and how companies can move to the next level.

A few days ago at the Microsoft Tech Summit that was held in Toronto, Nestor Arellano from IT in Canada caught up with Chris Barry to talk about a survey which reveals that many Canadian businesses intend to implement a digital strategy in 2017, but they still have some doubt about migrating workloads to the cloud. 

This is an insightful interview especially for SMBs who are in the process of migrating to the cloud or are looking at doing so in the near future.

We are excited to share this interview with you in this episode of WRLWND Radio.

Futurists are looking to move away from keyboards and tap commands to voice commands, and that call has been answered by Google with its latest product, Google Home. Today in the show we will take a look at this exciting new product and will also touch on the new MacBook Pro, should you get one now or wait.

Hear more about Google Home, the new digital assistant that is a speaker that looks like an air freshener that can understand and act on most of your voice commands. Also, should you get the MacBook Pro now or wait a little? We present the views of one analyst and we close with the privacy concerns from using Google services.

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Thanks for listening.

Is PC making a comeback? In this episode of WRLWND Radio we will take a look at Microsoft's exciting new innovations that were announced this week featuring an all in one PC that is directly competing with Macs.

A recent survey of senior technology and industry representatives uncovers the need for companies to divest themselves of day-to-day IT maintenance tasks and to focus on strategic IT initiatives instead. In this episode of WRLWND Radio, Marcello Sukhdeo talks with Ash Mathur, Regional Vice President & Managing Director at CenturyLink Canada about the results from this survey and the managed services market in Canada.

Hear more about what a managed services provider is, the pros and cons of moving to managed services, the loss of productivity due to a technology failure, ways to deal with an outage, and how to overcome the barrier to move to managed services.

If you are experiencing issues with your IT infrastructure, managed services would not be a bad idea to pursue. For more details on how to get the ball rolling on this or to gather more information visit http://www.centurylink.ca.

Thanks again to our guest on today’s show, Ash Mathur, Regional Vice President & Managing Director at CenturyLink Canada.

Have a great thanksgiving!

In this episode of WRLWND Radio, Marcello Sukhdeo talks with Allen Lalonde, Senior Executive for IBM Research and Development on the opening of the IBM Innovation Space, a new startup hub in Toronto which is designed to accelerate innovation.

On September 21, IBM in partnership with the Ontario Centres of Excellence and the Government of Ontario launched the IBM Innovation Space. The objective of this hub is to provide the means to help entrepreneurs, startups, and developers so that they can work on innovate ideas and move rapidly their business plans from research to commercialization.   

In this interview, Allen Lalonde talks about why Toronto was chosen for this space, the benefits to entrepreneurs and startups by being a part of this community, the two biggest challenges that the province has been facing with startups and how to become a part of this community. 

Thanks to Allen Lalonde and team at IBM Canada for sharing the vision of this initiative and how startups can move rapidly to commercialization.

Thanks for listening.