March 2017

Todayโ€™s startups need to stay nimble: how technology can help

Calgaryโ€™s Paper Interactive, Inc. offers a good lesson for startups on the benefits of staying open to new ideas. The company behind ContractClub (a cloud-based contract management and digital signature platform) actually began as a group of engineering students looking to solve a common issue for wind-powered generator companies: accurately mapping wind. I know what […]

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Testing Redundancy for Google Service

Category:ย ย  ย Google Services Start Time:ย ย  ย 2017-03-17 ย ย ย ย ย 8:00 am Local time. ย (Friday) End Time:ย ย  ย 2017-03-17 ย ย ย ย ย 4:00 pm Local times. Anticipated outage duration: No Outage During the time frame indicated above, CYBERA will be adding a redundant connection to Google Services at YYCIX ( Calgary) Internet Exchange. During the above outage window we do not expect any

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Cyber Summit 2017

The future is already here: It’s just not very evenly distributed

The story behind the Cyber Summit 2017 theme โ€œThe future is already here, itโ€™s just not very evenly distributedโ€ is a quote by William Gibson, a writer who has explored the effects of technology, cybernetics and computer networks on humans. The visionaries within the Prairiesโ€™ Research and Education Networks work behind the scenes to connect

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Astronomers Use Cyberaโ€™s Rapid Access Cloud To Find โ€˜Very Unusualโ€™ Star System

Adapted from the University of Alberta press release This graphic features an artist’s impression of the extraordinarily close stellar pairing, known as X9. Photo credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Astronomers from the University of Alberta have found evidence of a star that orbits around a black hole every 28 minutes. This could be the

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OpenConext Deployment: Part #3

By Andrew Klaus, former security advisor, Cybera In part two, I explained how to create the repository for configuration management, and deploy infrastructure to support the OpenConext platform. In this part, Iโ€™ll be covering how to prepare the Ansible environment, install OpenConext, and test if the installation was successful. Prerequisites Ansible and other dependencies need

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Shaw scheduled maintenance

Category:       Calgary Supernet Maintenance Start Time:          2017-03-11    18:00  Local time.  (Saturday) End Time:            2017-03-11    18:30 Anticipated outage duration: 10 minutes During the time frame indicated above, SHAW will be performing maintenance on the Cybera to Supernet connection in Calgary. The outage duration should be less than the total duration of the reserved maintenance window and could

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OpenConext Deployment: Part #2

By Andrew Klaus, former security advisor, Cybera In part one, I talked about what myUnifiED is and the various tools Cybera has used to deploy it. In this post, Iโ€™ll be covering how to create the repository for configuration management, and deploy infrastructure to support the OpenConext platform. To keep things simple, Iโ€™ll only create

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Cybera maintenance – tonight

Category:        EDMONTON router maintenance Start Time:          2017-03-08  21:30  Local time.  (Wednesday evening) End Time:           2017-03-08  21:45 Anticipated Outage Duration: 15 minutes or less During the time frame indicated above, Cybera will be performing maintenance on one of its virtual core router in Edmonton. The outage duration should be less than the total duration of the

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OpenConext Deployment: Part #1

By Andrew Klaus, former security advisor, Cybera Cybera is working on a two year pilot to create an Identity Federation for K-12 schools in Alberta, called myUnifiED. This Identity Federation will use OpenConext, an open source hub and spoke federation platform, as the technical solution. In this three part blog series, I will detail the

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