Michel Labelle is IT director for Global Container Terminals. He has over 20 years of industry and consulting experience at various organizations. Prior to this position, Labelle served as director of infrastructure technology with TSI Terminal Systems Inc, where he was responsible for the IT operations, infrastructure and support teams. His duties included the ongoing management of server, network, and voice and data communication activities. With a background in IT risk management and IT forensics or multiple organizations, including Auditor General of Canada and Transport Canada, Labelle brings a rounded approach to IT operations. Labelle has served on the federal Canadian Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee and is active in promoting digital civil liberties. A regular contributor to IT World Canada and other industry publications, he has written for MacWorld, IT Architect, Network World and Network Magazine, and has been a featured speaker at VMWorld, IP4IT and the MISA conference. He trained at Heritage College in computer science with qualifications in project management, systems design, and voice/data communications systems deployment.
I’ve been reading some interesting articles on Harvard Business Review about how sometimes we fail to see what is right in front of us. This issue is one of cognitive dissonance where we fail to see the alternative uses of an item due … Continue reading
So what makes the iDevice of your choice so special? Well realistically it is no different than what made the personal computer so special as compared to the mainframe. It’s the personal part. At the core of any iDevice (iPod/iPad/iPhone/iTV) … Continue reading
I’m watching the world wonder about Google Drive and MS SkyDrive etc and how they compare to DropBox. I may be alone in this point of view but in the short term I’m not worried about these offerings. I’ve been … Continue reading
BlogIdol is warming up for another launch. Until the contest officially starts I’ll be revisiting some of my past posts to see where things have changed, but more to see just how much things have stayed the same. My oldest post still on … Continue reading
You would think that as an IT manager, I would have a lot of say into the technology that makes my company tick. Unfortunately the reality is that most of the large systems you will ever implement as CIO or … Continue reading
Project management is one of those disciplines that I really can’t stand as an IT manager. Its not that I don’t see the value, it is that the discipline itself was never conceived to manage IT projects. Project management and … Continue reading
Here’s some notes from today’s Cisco, VMware and NetApps joint presentation on virtualization and cloud computing. Killing the silos It is critical that as IT managers that we understanding that silos in our organization can be both good or bad. … Continue reading
At a decidedly lackluster hockey game last night, I had the pleasure of talking to my favorite telecommunications engineers. I won’t mention his name or his organization since it wasn’t an official interview, but I want to pass on some of … Continue reading
Andrew McAfee over at Harvard Business Review discusses an interesting point on how the IT industry is unlike any previous industry. The core point being that the IT industry is the only industry where prices have continuously declined over time. … Continue reading
Another of those great resources that I need to dig into every once in a while. The Federal government has a fantastic Public Safety website with a lot of resources that come in handy when you are trying to build … Continue reading
As important as blogging has become over time, in most cases it is little more than quickly informed opinions or content rehash. One of the technology enablers however that is slowly changing this is situational blogging. In some ways, Twitter … Continue reading
Every once in a while a staff member will ask me one of those questions where at one point in my life I might have remembered the answer, but for some reason today I just can’t. Sure I could do … Continue reading
Brian Madden posed an interesting question on his blog. Five years from now, will a 200-person company need any servers on site?
This is an interesting debate, but I would like to look one step further. In a world where we can literally have everything in the cloud, do we really need to keep investing in our basic IT infrastructure? Is IT still a competitive differentiator? Continue reading
One of the hardest things to take on for most IT departments is the continued consumerization of the core infrastructure technology we consume. Gone are the days when devices were primarily built for the corporate entity. Manufactures realized early that … Continue reading
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