News

Latency issues in the Edmonton region – resolved

By Admin / Aug 28, 2019

The service in the Edmonton region has been restored by AXIA. The root cause of the issue was AXIA making a capacity change to their link. Their technical team has now reverted that change, and will run further analysis.

Latency issues in the Edmonton region

By Admin / Aug 28, 2019

We are experiencing latency issues in the Edmonton region for members connected via SuperNet. We are working with the SuperNet team to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

Cybera announces new leader

By Admin / Aug 15, 2019

After a decade of serving the digital needs of Alberta’s public sector, Robin Winsor has announced that he will be retiring from his position as President and CEO of Cybera. He will be replaced by Dr. Barb Carra, Cybera’s Chief Operating Officer, who brings over 10 years of leadership, government […]

Free data science mentorship program will help bolster Alberta businesses

By Admin / Aug 6, 2019

Today, Cybera launched the Data Science for Albertans Industry Fellowship program. This program will help small-to-medium sized businesses tackle industry problems by pairing them with emerging data scientists who are looking for in-the-field experience. The four-week industry fellowships, which are being run with support from the Pacific Institute for Mathematical […]

The Road To 100

By Robin Winsor, former President & CEO / Jul 26, 2019

This week, Cybera celebrated an impressive milestone: surpassing our 100th member. This may not seem remarkable to others, but considering we began in 1994 with just two members, and a decade ago were hovering around 20 members, our exponential growth feels pretty remarkable to us. One reason for the major […]

Cybera’s membership grows while its internet costs shrink

By Admin / Jul 24, 2019

This past month, Cybera marked two major milestones: its membership surpassed 100 organizations, while the set rate for bandwidth in the Internet Buying Group has been reduced from $1.75 to $1.50 per Mbps. This is the 12th price drop for the bulk buying service since its launch in 2012. Coupled with Cybera’s […]

Building a realtor recommendation tool with the help of data science

By Meagan Hampel / Jun 14, 2019

In the fiercely competitive property market, “location, location, location” is not the only factor that influences success. Having the right realtor can also make the difference between a big gain or a big loss (or a long sell time versus a short sell time). Like many other industries, real estate […]

Emergency network maintenance – tonight

By Admin / May 1, 2019

As a follow up to today’s outage, we require an emergency maintenance window later tonight that will result in a few short duration outages as we resolve a related outstanding configuration issue.

Alberta’s public Virtual Firewall Service adds new security capabilities

By Admin / Apr 30, 2019

The Virtual Firewall Service allows Alberta public organizations to cut down on their firewall maintenance costs by removing the need to host their own physical firewall devices. The service has now expanded to include FortiNet offerings, and is being made available to any small public institution in Alberta that is […]

How Amii plans to build Alberta’s AI and machine learning capabilities

By Admin / Apr 23, 2019

[This blog is adapted from a post that originally appeared on Digital Alberta in February 2019.] In 2018, after eight years with Cybera, our intrepid vice president of technology, John Shillington, stepped away from his role at our organization to pursue new adventures. John has always been on the vanguard of […]

An Introduction to Google Secure LDAP

By Admin / Apr 3, 2019

More and more schools and organizations are taking advantage of sign-in tools from Microsoft Azure and Google for their authentication needs. These cloud-based services are often easier to manage than in-house systems, and don’t require any on-premise equipment. And with the increase in web services supporting logins from Google and […]