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• Are You Fully Automated?

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 10 Jan 2019

One common theme with recent product tests and vendor briefings and that is - automation. Not that there's anything new here per se; back in the mid-90s I remember working on an extensive project ...

• Shock Headline: IT Saves $$$$ (again)!

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 13 Dec 2018

Two and a bit years ago – I should remember, it was on my birthday! – I was presenting a panel debate on the latest Cybersecurity deterrents. With four vendors and two consultants on the panel, it ...

• Black Friday On My Mind

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 22 Nov 2018

Ah – tomorrow – the dreaded Black Friday, yet another unwanted import from Trumpland. But, JASK – already previously subjected here to the blogging treatment – has some security advice to offer as ...

• Global, Load-Balanced Redundant Weather

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 09 Nov 2018

I remember long ago, in an unlikely setting for a bleeding-edge test-labs – an old winery surrounded by vines where the only “blood” came from crushed grapes – yes, my old French test labs, where ...

• All Things Migration

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 22 Oct 2018

So, in recent blogs I've talked about all things migration-wise; Windows migration issues and the testing thereof, migrating to the cloud, even migrating the cloud back to OnPrem, from OnPrem to ...

• No Cloud Over VDI!

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 12 Oct 2018

Unsurprisingly, whatever the IT genre and whatever the weather, cloud is always on the horizon right now. One of several top meetings I had last week within IP Expo's confines was with Morteza ...

• A Cure For IT Paranoia And A Dig In The US Ribs

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 11 Oct 2018

Last week's IP Expo at EXCEL wasn't all bad news; we escaped the first night into proper London, to a brewery disguised as a pig restaurant and then, naturally, to a (posh) curry house. Well, it is ...

• AVIn A Well Balanced Time...

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 11 Oct 2018

Me and Load-Balancers (the artist wot became known as the Application Delivery Controller at some point in its life, even though it always did this anyway) go back a long way; 20 years basically, ...

• Parallel Universe Windows Migration as a Service

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 02 Oct 2018

Rewind a few years and I was carrying out a series of test projects for a UK-based ISV client, AppDNA, whose focus was the analysis of application compatibility when migrating between different ...

• What - no grilled sardines?

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 02 Oct 2018

Recently returned from the sunny climes of the Algarve at this year’s round up of IT reprobates at Netevents (congrats, as ever, to the Netevents team for a) organising the event and b) surviving ...

• Who is The Cloud Daddy?

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 07 Sep 2018

Had a great couple of online sessions recently with Joe Merces of the splendidly named CloudDaddy. The aim of CloudDaddy is to simplify one of the great pain points of IT (no, not repairing ...

• IT On A Budget? Still Plenty Of Investment Money Around...

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 29 Jun 2018

IT is often two-faced and never more so than when it comes to the financial health of the industry. Speak to one set and they'll tell you how tight it is, scrapping for every penny of profit, and ...

• Divisive Devices And Conferencing Woes?

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 05 Jun 2018

Like - I suspect - many people, I spend far too large a percentage of my one and only life on various 'net conferences, using a variety of platforms. Most of them are truly loathsome. So it was ...

• Positive Reinvention

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 20 Apr 2018

It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so. In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT ...

• Sunny Weather Cutting Through The Clouds

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 20 Apr 2018

One thing that is also clearly understood is that, even with an outsourced, “in the Ether” service, such as a public/private cloud, the EMEA market – with its geo-cultural fragmentation – is a very ...