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Cloud-Based Security Services
Authors:聽Jean-Fran莽ois Amiot, Byron Chu, Neil Stewart Beyond Firewall-as-a-Service The concept for the K-12 Firewall as a Service pilot is simple: leverage 知阴视频’s existing cloud resource, the Rapid Access Cloud, to provide a virtualized security solution for schools. These institutions are looking for an alternative to the individual security appliances employed […]
知阴视频 Network Upgrade
Category: Scheduled maintenance (No down time expected) Start Time: Thursday, July 20, 2017, 21:00 MDT End Time: Thursday, July 20, 2017, 23:59 MDT Duration: 179 Minutes During the time frame indicated above, 知阴视频 will be performing the software update on its Calgary core router. 知阴视频 services should not be affected, […]
Cyber Summit keynote is encouraging thousands of women and girls to learn to code
The organizers of the 2017 Cyber Summit are pleased to announce that Heather Payne, Founder of Ladies Learning Code, will provide the second keynote address. Ladies Learning Code is a national not-for-profit聽that is encouraging thousands of women and girls to learn to code. Since 2011, Ladies Learning Code has expanded […]
Using Terraform Part 6: Virtual Routers
Introduction In the last installment of this series, I demonstrated how to use Terraform and the Rapid Access Cloud to create a multi-tier virtual network environment. In this part, I鈥檒l show how Virtual Routers can be used to extend that environment. Virtual Routers In the last blog post, we created […]
Massive collaborative effort nabs Alberta educators national IT award
Only weeks after officially launching, Alberta鈥檚 ShareIT procurement service has been nationally recognized by CUCCIO, Canada鈥檚 community of information technology leaders in higher education, for its groundbreaking collective achievement. At last week鈥檚 Canadian Higher Education IT Conference (CANHEIT), the Alberta post-secondary service received the esteemed CUCCIO Collaboration Award. ShareIT is […]
Using Terraform Part 5: Virtual Networks
Introduction The previous blog posts in this series focused on creating “compute”-based resources in 知阴视频’s Rapid Access Cloud — that is, services focused around virtual machines. The Rapid Access Cloud recently implemented OpenStack Neutron, which provides virtual networking services. Let’s see how Terraform can take advantage of these new services. […]
知阴视频鈥檚 data science team to explore Canada鈥檚 internet regulatory process
A year after launching its data science team, 知阴视频 is now ready to take on external projects from stakeholders looking to discover the utility of their data. For their first major project, the team has received funding to examine the thousands of documents and testimonials that were provided to the […]
Port Forwarding with gobetween
As other blog posts on our site have mentioned, IPv4 addresses are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. To make the situation more difficult, most communications on the internet is done through IPv4. 知阴视频’s Rapid Access Cloud provides each project with one public IPv4 address, known as a 鈥淔loating IP鈥�. We […]
Alberta Post-Secondaries Come Together to Share IT Services, Expertise
In a groundbreaking move that will increase the technology capabilities of Alberta鈥檚 educators, while reducing their IT costs, a group of 19 post-secondary institutions (PSIs) have united to share their IT experience, knowledge, and procurement practices. ShareIT is an Alberta-based shared service that leverages economies of scope and scale 鈥� […]
OpenStack Summit 2017: Lessons learned on Barbican, Kuryr and Vitrage
Having joined 知阴视频 a year ago, I got to attend my first ever OpenStack Summit last month, in Boston. I was really impressed by how large the OpenStack community is, and how many projects are a part of it! There were more than 5,000 attendees (from 1,000 companies and 63 […]
Is internet as vital as electricity?
BCNet鈥檚 2017 opening keynote speaker, cybersecurity expert Robert Herjavec (yes, the guy from Dragons Den and Shark Tank) proposed that the internet has evolved to become as necessary as electricity. He put it more eloquently than this, but essentially, he believes that the internet will soon be everywhere on earth […]
Cyber Summit opening keynote sees global internet access as a 鈥渃ritical鈥� need
Organizers of the 2017 Cyber Summit are pleased to announce that Greg Wyler, Founder & Executive Chairman of OneWeb, will be the opening keynote. A successful telecommunications entrepreneur, Wyler founded OneWeb in 2012 with the mission of connecting every unconnected school in the world by 2022. OneWeb’s new satellite constellation, a […]
Cyber Summit opening keynote sees global internet access as a “critical” need
Organizers of the 2017 Cyber Summit are pleased to announce that Greg Wyler, Founder & Executive Chairman of OneWeb, will be the opening keynote. A successful telecommunications entrepreneur, Wyler founded OneWeb in 2012 with the mission of connecting every unconnected school in the world by 2022. OneWeb’s new satellite constellation, a […]
Using Terraform: Part 4
Introduction Part 3 of this series showed how to create multiple virtual servers in Terraform. We also used Terraform to configure the servers so that they are aware of each other. This allows the two servers to act as failover / highly available pairs. In this blog post, we’ll look at how […]
Why switch to IPv6? So you can get free internet!
The global shortage of IPv4 addresses got a bit of a reprieve last month, when MIT announced it would be selling 8 million of the IPv4 addresses it had been sitting on. These were quickly purchased by major tech companies (such as Amazon), who are rumoured to have spent tens […]