On October 5th, Greg Lang, President and CEO of PMC, announced that Skyworks will acquire PMC-Sierra for approximately $2 billion and says that “the PMC team is excited to join forces with Skyworks to realize our vision of transforming the broader communications landscape through unparalleled product breadth and operational scale.”
With Windows 10 now available, many people are debating on whether or not to adopt it. Well, what if there was a easy way to test drive the new operating system without all the work? IT World Canada published an article on using IronKey’s secure USB with Windows to Go as a way to evaluate Windows 10.
Source: IT World Canada
On October 14th, Microsoft and IronKey will be presenting “A Smarter, More Secure Way to Support Mobile Workers” informational session at the Microsoft Technology Centre. At this complimentary presentation, you will learn about IronKey’s PC on a Stick with Microsoft-certified Windows To Go, and why it is a better solution. This presentation will include a Microsoft demonstration of Windows To Go along with use cases and key insights into cost comparisons.
Event Information
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 @ 1:30 EST
Microsoft Canada Head Office
1950 Meadowvale Blvd.
Technology Centre, 2nd floor
Mississauga, ON L5N 8L9
MakerBot Thingiverse has created a resource page for those who want to start creating 3D models. They provide a list of the most popular 3D design software, ranging from beginner to intermediate level, and they are all free. Each software that is listed has a complete page with video tutorials and 3D files to work with.
View the Jumpstart page at: http://www.thingiverse.com/jumpstart
MatterThings, one of e-Nable‘s volunteers in Pincourt, the West Island of Montreal (Quebec) Canada is donating twenty-five (25) 3D mechanical prosthetic hands for kids to help meet worldwide demand.
MatterThings is using a MakerBot Replicator 2 to build the prosthetic hand kits in PLA (Polylactic Acid or Polylactide) – a bioplastic derived from renewable resources, such as corn starch. It takes approximately 6 hours to 3D print each kit.
Source: Matter Things
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It includes unique innovative geographically distributed clustering technology which is also self-provisioning, self-healing and self-balancing. Learn how customers are choosing SnapScale over Isilon to simplify the data environment with a system that can both scale-up and scale-out, with the granular increments as low as a few disks.
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Did you know that research from Gartner estimates that hybrid cloud adoption will near 50% by 2017? And over 19% of organizations manage hybrid clouds today with an additional 60% planning to deploy them over the next 12-18 months? SMB analyst firm Techaisle LLC validates that momentum in small businesses and finds that hybrid cloud is now being used by 18 percent of cloud-using small businesses (1 to 99 employees). That number is expected to grow to 28 percent in 2015—an increase of 56 percent.
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SnapCLOUD solves some key challenges for your customers with regards to:
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– Drastically reduce operational cost with central management of storage infrastructure from remote offices to central data center to public cloud instances
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– Cloud Bursting. This enables a business to accelerate projects or off load production environments with no upfront capital expenditure. Enterprises are seeing around 30% cost reduction by moving their development and test workloads into cloud while eliminating risks to their production environments.
– Personal Cloud Sync & Share data. With “Dropbox-like” convenience but with 16x more performance and without the vulnerabilities of public cloud storage, SnapCLOUD’s built-in Sync & Share functionality allows data to be shared between multiple devices and multiple users. No more need for expensive yearly subscription to store and access your own data.
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The Design Exchange is a not-for-profit museum funded and operated by a collection of artists, studios, printers, designers, home builders, architects and others in the field of art, design and architecture who collectively put on exhibits throughout the year in Downtown Toronto, focusing on Art, Design, Printing and new technologies. Their principal focus is the pursuit and display of design excellence and innovation as well as education and highlighting relevance of design to people’s everyday life.
The 3DXL is their latest exhibit in Downtown Toronto at the corner of King Street and Blue Jay way in a “Fishbowl” type location with windows around the 2 exposed sides, focussed on 3D Printing. The exhibit runs from May 14 – Aug 16, right through the PanAm Games (10,000 participants and millions of tourists), also in Downtown Toronto.
Among the sponsors of the both the Design Exchange and this exhibit in particular are The Printing House which is expecting to launch into 3D printing in a big way, with their new dedicated 3D Printing Store in downtown Toronto, eventually rolling out the 3D Printing concept to their 70 national stores.
The exhibit consists of 8 rooms all focussed on different elements of 3D printing – historical, artistic, future, and the DX Lab which is the section located in the “fishbowl”. This is where the bank of MakerBot printers are located and running 24/7. Visitors can enter this section and work with 2 Ryerson University’s Design students who will demonstrate the printers in action, work with visitors to design and print items, and generally get people excited about MakerBot printers. This is particularly useful when tour groups and schools come by to visit.
Throughout the run of the show, various special events are planned including family nights, Meetups, summer camp, adult and student modelling, design and printing classes, video game design, workshops, and curators tours.
Initially, the main Desktop 3D Printer was expected to be Ultimaker, since that is who Ryerson was working with. The Printing house was instrumental in getting MakerBot to replace Ultimaker as the exclusive Desktop 3D printer.
It is estimated that 80,000 – 120,000 people will visit the exhibit. Additional exposure to hundreds of thousands more through various media events and reporting. The
exposure and visibility of MakerBot at this level in Canada would have cost thousands and thousands of dollars. Instead it cost MakerBot the 5 loaner printers.
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Design Exchange
Design Boom
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Sphere 3D and Microsoft are hitting the road to present “Technologies to Power the Next Cloud” at Microsoft Technology Centers in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Toronto. These events will provide an overview of Sphere 3D’s technologies and solutions for the “Next Cloud” featuring Glassware 2.0 Windows container technology for application delivery and the latest in virtual storage technology.
Adoption of cloud-based deployment models continues to accelerate and so does the need for the evolution of the associated architectures and business models to ensure success. This means enabling new and innovative capabilities that support public, private, and hybrid deployments in the cloud.
At these events attendees will explore how new technologies are enabling organizations to easily virtualize and migrate legacy and Windows-based applications to the cloud. In addition, attendees will be able to participate in demonstrations of new container based technologies for virtualizing applications, regardless of their hardware or operating system platform dependencies, and get a glimpse at new virtual storage options for the enterprise.
Sphere 3D and Microsoft invites you to join them in Toronto on June 17th, 2015 from 10 AM to noon at the Microsoft Technology Center.
Microsoft Technology Center
University Room
22 Bay St., Suite 1201
Toronto, ON M5K 1E7
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MakerBot newest CEO, Jonathan Jaglom, interviewed with 3D printing specialist Steve Heller to talk about Stratasys acquisition of MakerBot, and the 2 ways MakerBot gives Stratasys a competitive edge.
1. MakerBot is the first step into the 3D printing world.
Jaglom: MakerBot is that first entrance into the Stratasys world. That’s how we see it, and I think it makes a lot of sense. You start your experience with a MakerBot, but that doesn’t stop you from thinking to move into the next phase, which is the higher-end printers that are offered by Stratasys.
2. MakerBot is more than a hardware, it’s a community.
Jaglom: Yes, MakerBot is more than just a hardware company. The ecosystem that we have around our printers is just amazing, and second to none. No other player in the desktop 3D printing space has anything close to what we have in terms of ecosystem.
Thingiverse is one example, where you can share files online. Thingiverse has 700,000 downloadable files that you can print; 700,000 is the number, over 1 million downloads per week.
The ecosystem around MakerBot is really an important part of the MakerBot equation. Don’t look at MakerBot just as a hardware company, at all. The ecosystem around that is so important to recognize. That is really where we are second to none in this industry. That really is our competitive advantage in this space.