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How Canadian Businesses Can Own Their Destinies in the Cloud

30-08-2021
CloudOps

Top 8 Challenges to Becoming SOC 2 Certified

11-08-2021
CloudOps

Unlocking Multi-Cloud with HashiCorp Vault Secrets Management

27-07-2021
CloudOps

Cloud is Culture

23-06-2021
CloudOps

Is Serverless the 'Right' Way to Cloud?

01-06-2021
CloudOps

What to Consider When Choosing a New Storage Offering

30-04-2021
CloudOps

How CloudOps is Supporting Healthcare Outcomes

31-03-2021
CloudOps

My Experiences as a Woman in Tech

08-03-2021
Chanpreet Kaur

Quiz: Scalability and Availability in Azure

05-03-2021
CloudOps

Podcast: The 2030 Cloud

16-02-2021
CloudOps

10 Reasons Healthcare is Ready to Succeed in the Cloud

21-01-2021
CloudOps

Rancher: An Open Source Platform for Cloud Native Applications

04-01-2021
CloudOps

Our Top Blog Posts from 2020

18-12-2020
CloudOps

Accelerating Digital Transformation: What Every CEO Needs to Know About Software Delivery Automation

01-12-2020
Sunil Mavadia

8 Factors Driving Cloud Adoption in the Financial Sector

16-11-2020
CloudOps

My Journey as a Non-Binary Individual

23-10-2020
Ariel Zolezzi

A Thanksgiving Message

09-10-2020
Ian Rae

The Biggest Myths of Multi-Cloud

01-10-2020
CloudOps

Kubernetes Operators 101

08-09-2020
Alexandre Menezes

My Experience Interning at CloudOps

28-08-2020
Julia Hohenadel

Advancing the Future of CI/CD Together

24-08-2020
Tracy Miranda

Comparing Service Meshes: Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, and Citrix ADC

21-08-2020
Syed Ahmed

Creating Meaningful Values, the CloudOps Way

19-08-2020
Julia Simon

How Open Source Enables Us to Own Our Destiny in the Clouds

24-07-2020
CloudOps

Top 7 Challenges to Becoming Cloud Native

14-07-2020
CloudOps

Navigating the Cloud Native Landscape with CloudOps

22-06-2020
CloudOps

Is the Cloud Causing Climate Change?

04-06-2020
Tristan Kosciuch

Kubernetes Networking 101

02-06-2020
Chanpreet Kaur

Our Work from Home Best Practices: Curated Tips and Tricks

06-05-2020
CloudOps

8 Ways to Cut Cloud Consumption Costs

23-04-2020
CloudOps

Kubernetes Deployments 101

21-04-2020
Chanpreet Kaur

Bringing HR into the Cloud: The Remote Future of Interviewing

14-04-2020
Jennifer Canty

Anthos: Application Modernization for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

31-03-2020
CloudOps

Remote Work: One Way of Supporting Employees

27-03-2020
Ariel Zolezzi

Staff Augmentation vs. Project-Based Services for DevOps and Cloud Projects

25-02-2020
CloudOps

Welcome to 2020!

12-02-2020
CloudOps

Artifical Intelligence is Pioneering Advances in Ecology

27-01-2020
Tristan Kosciuch

Top 10 Mistakes To Avoid When Adopting DevOps

13-01-2020
CloudOps

Our Top 8 Blog Posts from 2019

18-12-2019
CloudOps

What We Promise Our Customers

02-12-2019
CloudOps

Assessing Success with the DevOps Health Radar

12-11-2019
CloudOps

A Best-of-Breed Toolbox for Using Cloud

29-10-2019
CloudOps

Everything You Need to Know About BizDevOps

08-10-2019
CloudOps

9 Books to Become Better at DevOps

19-09-2019
CloudOps

Evolving towards a Cloud Centre of Excellence in AWS

10-09-2019
CloudOps

Quiz: Are you a Kubernetes Unicorn?

19-08-2019
CloudOps

Life at CloudOps

02-08-2019
CloudOps

The Future of Cloud Native Telcos – Own your Destiny in the Cloud

19-07-2019
CloudOps

Rethinking Cloud Security with DevSecOps

03-07-2019
CloudOps

DevOps Realms – Own your Destiny in the Cloud

16-05-2019
CloudOps

The CloudOps Delivery Model – Accelerated Value Delivery through Code and Collaboration

14-05-2019
CloudOps

The Ultimate Rook and Ceph Survival Guide

07-05-2019
Michael Wojcikiewicz

Quiz: How Secure are your Containers in Azure?

25-04-2019
CloudOps

An Adventure in Multi-Cloud Networking with Kubernetes and Tungsten Fabric

03-04-2019
CloudOps

Cloud Native Gaming: What Google Stadia has to offer

26-03-2019
Carol Trang

To Russia with Love: Deploying Kubernetes in Foreign Locations

20-03-2019
CloudOps

Driving Feature Velocity through Cultural Change: Why DevOps puts Mindset before Technology

28-02-2019
Jesse Hurkens

Why you Need a DevOps Transformation to Survive

28-02-2019
CloudOps

Lost at Sea: Navigating the Complexities of Kubernetes

24-02-2019
CloudOps

A Brief Guide to Securing Containers at Scale

29-01-2019
CloudOps

Why I Joined CloudOps

18-01-2019
Maddison Long

Why Cloud Native: Cloud Agnostic Platforms and Automation Driving Business Value

21-11-2018
CloudOps

The Beginner’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape

26-10-2018
CloudOps

Does the Service Mesh spell the end for Middleware?

24-09-2018
Flo Adam

Podcast: Cloud, Innovation, and Updates from Google Next 2018

11-09-2018
CloudOps

The Containerization of Machine Learning: TensorFlow, Kubernetes and Kubeflow

05-09-2018
CloudOps

Choosing a Cloud Provider as part of your Migration Strategy

01-08-2018
CloudOps

How to Create Infrastructure as Code with GCP Deployment Manager: Your third step towards DevOps automation

26-07-2018
Stacy Véronneau

Rancher 2.0: Exciting Features You Should Know About

24-07-2018
CloudOps

Why We Chose Ansible for Automating Configuration Management

18-06-2018
CloudOps

What does GDPR mean for your Cloud Application?

14-06-2018
CloudOps

DevOps vs. SRE: Choosing the Right Model for Your Organization

10-06-2018
CloudOps

Why Kubernetes Ingresses aren’t as Difficult as You Think

08-06-2018
Evan McIlroy

Overcoming Compliance Confusion: Why You Need a SOC 2 Foundation

10-05-2018
CloudOps

Java’s Got a New Release Train: Are you on it or under it?

19-04-2018
CloudOps

The Value of OpenShift for the Enterprise Software Transformation

27-03-2018
CloudOps

How to Generate and Use Dynamic Secrets for AWS IAM with Vault using Kubernetes & Helm

20-03-2018
Adrian Todorov

How to Create Infrastructure as Code with Packer and Terraform on GCP: Your second step towards DevOps automation

16-03-2018
Stacy Véronneau

Solving Complexity at the Network Layer with Istio

21-02-2018
CloudOps

How to Create Infrastructure as Code with Terraform in GCP: Your first step towards DevOps automation

14-02-2018
Stacy Véronneau

Serverless Computing: Hot or Not?

07-02-2018
CloudOps

7 Things CloudOps is Betting on in 2018…

05-02-2018
CloudOps

Containerizing ONAP for Efficiency: Why Bell created OOM using Kubernetes

19-01-2018
CloudOps

Security and Resiliency for SaaS Companies

12-01-2018
Katharine Mikula

Docker and Kubernetes: What is the Value of Containerization?

28-07-2017
Marc Pare

Choosing the Right OpenStack Distribution

13-09-2016
CloudOps

Supplemental Pack for XenServer allows for VDI per LUN Functionality

22-03-2016
Ian Rae

A Cloud Operations Manifesto

03-12-2015
Ian Rae

CloudStack vs. OpenStack: Is There Really a Winner?

29-07-2015
CloudOps

You’re Always Wrong About Your IT Needs and Here Is Why

06-05-2015
Ian Rae

Hosting vs. Cloud & Humans vs. Machines

26-03-2015
Marc Paré

Use a Palo Alto Networks firewall with CloudStack

05-12-2014
CloudOps

Can Infor and NetSuite Get “Cloud” So Wrong?

17-11-2014
Marc Paré

Moving To Your New SaaSy Reality

31-07-2014
CloudOps

How SaaSy Is Your Organization?

23-07-2014
CloudOps

The Future of Software Is a Four Letter Word

18-07-2014
CloudOps

The Fight Is Over, and SaaS Has Won

08-07-2014
CloudOps

CloudStack 4.3 API Visualization

29-05-2014
Will Stevens

Parlons-en Cloud 2014: some topics

17-04-2014
CloudOps

Researching cloud adoption

15-04-2014
CloudOps

Clouds are like airlines

07-04-2014
CloudOps

CloudStack: Creating advanced networking zone using API

28-03-2014
Pierre-Luc Dion

Install Apache Cloudstack with Chef

07-03-2014
Pierre-Luc Dion

A Cloud(Ops) Story

28-03-2013
Ian Rae

Why the cloud is (and needs to be) like Minecraft

09-03-2013
Pierre-Luc Bisaillon

How to get a job in the cloud industry

27-02-2013
Pierre-Luc Bisaillon

Why private cloud matters

22-02-2013
Pierre-Luc Bisaillon

CloudStack vs. OpenStack: My Experience

10-02-2013
François Gaudreault

Setting Up an Ideal CloudStack Development Environment

05-02-2013
Marc-André Jutras

Thinking About Web Application Firewalls

28-01-2013
François Gaudreault

Working with the CloudStack API

18-01-2013
Will Stevens

Why You Should Consider Commercially Supported Open Source

06-11-2012
CloudOps

Migrating to Citrix NetScaler from Cisco ACE? CloudOps Can Help

31-10-2012
CloudOps

Striking the Balance Between Innovation and Standardization in Cloud-Based Development

03-10-2012
CloudOps

What is your favourite cloud computing quote?

03-09-2012
CloudOps

CloudOps Press

Aptum Named a Major Player in 2024 IDC MarketScape Canadian Managed Multicloud Services Vendor Assessment

28-02-2024
CloudOps

Michael Stephens of Aptum Recognized as 2024 CRN® Channel Chief

06-02-2024
CloudOps

Aptum Forms Partnership with AVANT, Aligning Sales and Support Organizations to Deliver End-to-End Cloud Solutions

24-01-2024
CloudOps

Aptum Retains Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider Certification

18-01-2024
CloudOps

Aptum Partners with Bridgepointe Technologies

05-12-2023
CloudOps

Aptum Attains AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner Status

28-11-2023
CloudOps

Aptum Announces New Senior Leadership Team Appointments, Signifying Continued Dedication to Cloud Market Growth

09-11-2023
CloudOps

Lack of Cloud Management Continues to Drive Significant Waste of IT Resources: Aptum Study

21-09-2023
CloudOps

Aptum Strengthens Leadership Team with Key Appointments to Drive AI-Driven Multi-Cloud Market Growth

22-08-2023
CloudOps

Brace for the Impact Study! Varying complexity of cloud environments is causing IT headache

23-05-2023
CloudOps

Aptum Announces Multi-Tenant Cloud Solution Providing Data Residency, Effective Cost Management and High Performance for Businesses of All Sizes

28-02-2023
CloudOps

Aptum Strengthens its Hybrid Multi-Cloud MSP Position with the Acquisition of Montreal-based CloudOps, an AWS, Google and Edge-to-Cloud SaaS Orchestrator

12-01-2023
Ian Rae

Hypertec acquires cloud.ca

02-11-2021
Ian Rae

CloudOps is Named One of The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies

24-09-2021
CloudOps

CloudOps is Named One of the Top 100 Solution Providers in Canada in 2021

28-04-2021
CloudOps

CloudOps is Named One of The 2021 Financial Times Americas Fastest Growing Companies

14-04-2021
CloudOps

CloudOps Selected as Cloud Infrastructure Services Partner for the Development of Telesat Lightspeed LEO Network

30-03-2021
CloudOps

CloudOps Ranks No. 19 On The 2020 Growth List of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies

15-10-2020
CloudOps

CloudOps is Named One of The Financial Times The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies in 2020

08-04-2020
CloudOps

CloudOps’ Commitment to Enhance Your Business Throughout COVID-19

18-03-2020
CloudOps

CloudOps is Named One of Canada’s Top Growing Companies.

27-09-2019
CloudOps

CloudOps is Named One of Canada’s Top ICT Companies in 2019 by Branham300

25-07-2019
CloudOps

CloudOps is an AWS Advanced Consulting Member

29-04-2019
CloudOps

CloudOps is in the Top 100 Cloud Solution Providers in Canada

26-04-2019
CloudOps

CloudOps is a Microsoft DevOps Competency Partner

14-04-2019
CloudOps

Will Stevens is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation

11-04-2019
CloudOps

Maddison Long accepted into Forbes Technology Council

06-03-2019
CloudOps

CloudOps is a Red Hat Application Platform Partner

28-06-2018
CloudOps

CloudOps listed in the Branham300 in 2018

27-06-2018
CloudOps

CloudOps is Now a Kubernetes Training Partner

17-05-2018
CloudOps

CloudOps is a Member of the Linux Foundation, the LFN, and the CNCF

08-03-2018
CloudOps

CloudOps is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider

12-01-2018
CloudOps

CloudOps Ranks No. 305 on the 2017 PROFIT 500

15-09-2017
CloudOps

Partnership with NetApp Propels CloudMC and cloud.ca

13-09-2017
CloudOps

CloudOps Certified as a Remarkable Employer

14-06-2017
CloudOps

CloudOps Listed on Branham300 for Second Consecutive Year

06-06-2017
Julia Simon

CloudOps and Datera Announce Apache CloudStack Integration for Web-Scale Storage Service

15-05-2017
CloudOps

CloudOps Ranks No. 356 on the 2016 PROFIT 500

15-09-2016
CloudOps

CloudOps Releases Names of Sponsors for Apache CloudStack™ Collab Conference

30-05-2016
CloudOps

Announcing Will Stevens As The New Apache™ CloudStack Vice-President

27-05-2016
CloudOps

CloudOps Announces IDC Vendor Profile

09-05-2016
CloudOps

CloudOps is Named One of Canada’s Top ICT Companies by Branham300

20-04-2016
CloudOps

CloudOps Partners with Mirantis

19-11-2015
Julia Simon

CloudOps Named One of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50TM Companies

12-11-2015
Julia Simon

CloudOps CEO Featured in KPMG’s The Next Million

05-11-2015
Julia Simon

CloudOps Ranks No. 204 on the 2015 PROFIT 500

17-09-2015
CloudOps

CloudOps Becomes the First Canadian Citrix Specialist in Networking for Data Centre

17-07-2015
Julia Simon

Announcing cloud.ca – enterprise cloud in Canada

03-05-2014
Marc Paré

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