It's more problematic for government for obvious reasons, and there are a lot of good reasons to build capacity by building this in house, but I don't trust that we have the skills to do this affordably.
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I'd pick a Canadian IT company that has been around for a while, buy a stake in the company and then hire them to build it, giving them the long-term contract for hosting based on the condition that they can't sell the company or data.
aug 25, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
IYO, Is there something wrong with the four existing federal enterprise data centres for hosting our data? I understand we may need further cloud software integration on top of the storage capabilities (but unknown to me if not already existing).
aug 25, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
My understanding is that we've outgrown them, and also that they were built for secure storage rather than cloud operations where there's a lot of data going in and out. But I'm only going by memory of articles. Also not sure how upgraded the hardware is.
aug 26, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I also don’t know, precious little in-depth info available. But it may be a good framework to build upon - either public or private.
aug 26, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
In any case, I would argue there is also a greater need for national silo’d data as well as shared cloud computing networks.
aug 26, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
For sure, but we tend to get into trouble any time we try to build something in-house rather than adapting existing solutions - it always costs more. I'd argue that our past experience with this hurts us because politicians get hammered over every cost overrun and are now culturally risk averse.
aug 26, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
True, the public is sold a bill of goods regarding fiscal responsibility without measurement of impact beyond dollars - however at the moment Canadians seem to be all in on national building and sovereignty.
aug 26, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view