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Vyopta Doubles UCaaS Users Supported Since Start of Pandemic Vyopta helps 40 million people worldwide to better collaborate News provided by Share this article Share this article AUSTIN, Texas, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vyopta, the Collaboration Intelligence Company, today announced the number of user-specific licenses it supports has doubled year over year as remote work and video conferencing became the "new normal." Vyopta now delivers intelligence monitoring and analytics that helps 40 ...

With his diversified tech, IT, health-care services and training company “running on all cylinders,” Calian boss Kevin Ford says it’s time for the Kanata-based firm to broaden its offerings into the software space. Ottawa’s 2017 CEO of the Year was in a buoyant mood on Thursday after his company reported record revenues of $138 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2021, up 33 per cent from a year earlier.  Sales were up across all four of Calian’s key customer segments ​– adva...

OTTAWA — Opposition members of Parliament are criticizing the federal government for what they call an increased use of “Cabinet confidence” to withhold information, this time surrounding a sole-sourced contract awarded to an American IT giant by Ottawa. “Cabinet confidence” was used by government officials as justification for redactions to a report tabled before a Parliamentary committee on Wednesday, where members are investigating the...

Article content The operations committee is also calling on the government to provide the original version of an internal report by SSC that scrutinized its own procurement practices, but which was provided to the committee with redactions. Opposition members on Wednesday suggested SSC’s redactions of its internal reports might point to a deeper unwillingness by the federal government to hold themselves accountable. The report was conducted by Gartner, an industry consultancy firm. “What I ...

At committee: Single-use plastics and temporary foreign workers By Kady OMalley. Published on Apr 28, 2021 6:01am The House veterans affairs committee is examining commemorations in the 21st century. (Shawn M. Kent/WikiMedia Commons) Canadian War Museum, the Juno Beach Centre Association, as well as the Vimy Foundation and the Over at ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, MPs continue to examine issues related to single-use plastics with representatives from the Canadian Bever...

Article content The $144.9 million earmarked in the 2019 budget for cybersecurity of Canada’s critical infrastructure still hasn’t been put to use after two years, despite warnings that systems such as energy grids and telecom networks could be targeted by hostile actors. The 2019 budget outlined the money would be spent over five years “to protect Canada’s critical cyber systems including in the finance, telecommunications, energy and transport sectors.” The funding was dependent on ...

BlackBerry is having a busy week. On April 12, the enterprise software company announced it was chosen by Shared Services Canada (SSC), the federal agency overseeing government IT systems, to be its supplier of secure productivity and communication software. The multi-year agreement (no exact contract length was given) will provide public servants across the federal government access to BlackBerry Spark unified endpoint management (UEM) and BlackBerry SecuSuite, according to an April 12 news re...

/PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced the Government of Canada has selected BlackBerry for their secure productivity and...

Article content Following multiple procurement disasters in the realm of information technology — think Phoenix Pay, the single email system and the modernization of data centres — the federal government’s main procurement czars have learned a thing or two. Above all, they have figured out that dividing very large, complex projects into smaller pieces — something known as agile procurement — substantially reduces the risk of catastrophic failure. The reason: this approach allows procu...

Microsoft said more than 40 organizations around the world, including in Canada, were targeted using network-management software from Texas-based SolarWinds