Jim Carroll, Futurist
Students on their way to obtaining a degree in science might
want to consider borrowing textbooks rather than purchasing them. Futurist Jim
Carroll, the keynote speaker at Cogeco Data Services’ (CDS) The Economics of IT
and Bay Street event last week, shared an interesting statistic about the
education field: half of the material U.S. students are currently learning in
agriculture, engineering, architecture and medicine will be obsolete by the
time would-be professionals graduate. This fact indicates the rapid pace at which
industries are currently evolving, as well as an inescapable conclusion— if you
want your business to be competitive, you better hustle up.
“The future belongs to those who are fast,” Carroll said in
his presentation. CDS has demonstrated its awareness of this fact through the
company’s latest efforts to provide information in a timely way—the launch of a new
data centre in Toronto’s downtown financial district. Cogeco predicts its new
data centre will attract local customers as well as organizations requiring
easy access and low latency connections to Canada’s largest business and
financial institutions.
Meeting a pressing
need for infrastructure“[The data centre] is
going to be a mixture of colocation services, where customers actually provide
their own equipment and we provide the power and the space,” said Tony
Ciciretto, president of CDS, in a recent interview with IT in Canada. “But more importantly, it allows [organizations]
to move towards a more managed environment, where customers don't need to worry
about spending the capital dollars—we do that for them.”
