UCP

• This solution creates a virtualized compute environment to run multiple Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) on a uCPE (universal Customer Premise Equipment).
• Ekinops commissioned EANTC AG, the European Advanced Networking Test Center, internationally recognized objective test center, to perform tests and evaluate its embedded router performance.
• Ekinops has demonstrated its virtualization solution made it possible for service providers to maximize compute cycle and monetize the Edge quickly.
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• The new joint solution combines the power of Azure cloud services with the scalability and flexibility benefits provided by the Hitachi UCP cloud infrastructure.
• Hitachi Vantara's new hybrid cloud solution is now generally available and supports organizations utilizing a mix of traditional and newer, container-based applications.
• In addition to Hitachi UCP for Azure Stack HCI, Hitachi Vantara also has validated two Azure Arc-enabled data services providing modern application solutions for Microsoft customers.
• This enhancement allows customers to modernize important applications and deliver cloud services across IT locations with centralized Azure Arc management.

• Juvare® , the leader in situational awareness and critical incident preparedness and response technology, today announced the launch of the Juvare Unified Command Platform™ (UCP), part of its new Juvare Federal & Defense (JFD) business unit.
• The platform enables federal and defense agencies to improve real-time situational awareness, facilitate secure interagency collaboration, and digitize workflows as part of public sector digital modernization efforts.
• The FedRAMP® High authorized version of UCP is available on the FedRAMP marketplace through Juvare Federal Cloud.
• “UCP is much more than just a workflow and visualization application,” said Patrick Macfarlane, Chief Operating Officer of Juvare Federal & Defense.

• With a fresh and workable majority, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing the choice of conforming to her moderate election stance or pushing the strategies of various quasi-separatist groups like Take Back Alberta and Project Confederation.
• If she opts to move from the centre to the far right again, controversies involving the federal government, government workers and environmentalists will ensue.
• As a political scientist, former Alberta public servant, financial institution executive and university administrator and researcher, I have been watching politics in Alberta for more than 40 years.

Alberta’s economy

• Without Alberta’s energy exports, Canada’s terms of trade would turn dramatically negative and force a drastic downward change in Canada’s standard of living.
• Statistics Canada reports that from 1997 to 2021, Canada ran a $1.05 trillion trade surplus with the rest of the world.
• During that same period, Alberta alone ran a trade surplus of $1.02 trillion with the rest of the world.
• To reiterate, Alberta’s withdrawal from the Canadian federation would cause a huge drop in Canadians’ standard of living.

American control

• Unlike Québec, where provincially built institutions like Caisse de Depot nurtured a francophone business class, Alberta’s key industries are controlled by American institutional investors.
• Uncertainty about how Ottawa will meet its emission reduction commitments in the face of sovereigntist opposition from Alberta is a big concern for those investors.
• This concern has reduced capital investment in the conventional oil and gas and oilsands sectors.

Confrontation with Ottawa

• Three themes will likely be front and centre — confrontation with Ottawa, building economic and institutional fences around the province and the shrinking of the Alberta government through selective privatizations.
• Smith is closely aligned with Rob Anderson, one of the principle authors of the Free Alberta Strategy.

Starving the Alberta government

• Another central election promise was to amend the Alberta Taxation Protection Act that requires a referendum to institute a sales tax.
• This amounts to creating an institutional framework that will starve the Alberta government.
• Efforts to shrink the size of government may include the privatization of Alberta’s land titles office , which has been experiencing horrendous backlogs for years.

Compromise?

• At the same time, the Liberals and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives have offered billions to promote electric vehicles.
• How fiscally responsible governments can undertake these extraordinary measures of fiscal assistance to entities controlled in the U.S. or Europe is extraordinary.
• With Alberta separatists inside the tent of Alberta’s UCP, 2023 will be a pivotal year for Canada’s Confederation.