Welcome to the second blog in our Amazon Web Services series, today we will be discussing the pros and cons of moving your data and infrastructure out of the conventional big, heavy, expensive servers sitting on-site to a more cost-effective and reliable solution in the cloud. When it

I’d like to begin this blog series with an introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and outline the topics to be covered in the subsequent weeks. Amazon started offering IT services in 2006, giving businesses an opportunity to decrease their IT infrastructure costs by moving to their

   Project X Ltd., your next career destination. Project X Ltd was recognized and Awarded by CIO Review as one of the “100 Most Promising Big Data Solution Providers of 2015”, as well as one of the “50 Most Promising Google Technology Solution Providers of 2015”. Project X

Last week we talked about Project Plans and the SDLC and touched on the waterfall model of project plans. In case you missed the first post you can read it here. This week we will talk about other project plan models… The fountain model recognizes that although some activities c

As we all know every project starts with a plan.  It is crucial to have a roadmap to guide you on any endeavour that you plan to undertake.  As it is said, if you don’t have a plan then you plan to fail.  Of course, we need to have a plan that depicts your objectives and incorporates

On April 27th, 2014 Project X Ltd sponsored and participated in the annual B-Strong Walk in support of the Princess Margaret Foundation and specifically supporting brain tumor research. Our team raised $5955.00 to support this terrific cause. For more information about the walk please

Does life surprize you or confuse you?    The book, “The Black Swan,” talks about events that come out of left field and surprise us.   A great example is 911.  Two things that baffled me about 911, the coordinated successful operation and the colapse of the buildings.  I

Jim, a friend of mine, was a summer student hired by the Federal Government to work in Kenora to work on implementing giving First Nations people the vote.   This was an important initiative by the governement and Prime Minister Diffenbaker came to give the program his support.

Graham Boundy and Harvey Gellman would often say that this book would have made a good article.  Recently I read a peice that suggested expressing your ideas in a poem was much more efficient.  So maybe often a book should have been a poem. I have not completely digested t

Sometimes we are annoyed when someone takes a controversial position in a discussion or meeting.   We want people to agree with our position and do not like contrary opinions.  However often if we are open to listening we can learn some important things.  Often the s