Networks Generation
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Power Down Or Else...
- Broadband Testing 14 Jul 2010 -
Holidays Still Means Emails For Many Of Us
- Broadband Testing 05 Jul 2010 -
App Migration And The Art Of Perfecting ROI
- Broadband Testing 01 Jun 2010
Over the past couple of years, at Broadband-Testing we've carried out a number of power consumption tests, primarily focusing on switches of the Ethernet variety.While we found that there are ...
So we're coming up to holiday time - funnily enought, the idea for me of getting on a flight to a hot destination...doesn't really work for someone whose life should be co-sponsored by Ryanair and ...
One of the issues I'm all too aware of as someone who often gets involved at the "plumbing" level of networking is that it's the applications sitting on folks' PCs (or MACs) that are the key to IT ...
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BRP NOT ERP
- Broadband Testing 27 May 2010 -
First Top Gear Now HP
- Broadband Testing 20 May 2010 -
Windows 7 In Big Demand - "Surely Not?" Says Vista User - Me!
- Broadband Testing 28 Apr 2010 -
Lizards, Iguanas & Cross Channel Ferries
- Broadband Testing 27 Apr 2010 -
Guy Kewney
- Broadband Testing 13 Apr 2010 -
Update From Fibrous Andorra
- Broadband Testing 22 Mar 2010 -
Magical Storage?
- Broadband Testing 03 Mar 2010
Just been swapping notes with my mates at the heart of the enterprise software revolution that is Thingamy.For those of you who still think of terms of ERP meaning "Enterprise Resource Process" or ...
First we had the Top Gear boys powering cars on cow poo.Now we have HP looking to do the very same thing for Data Centres: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2010/apr-jun/HP_ASME_PAPER.pdfThought I'd enter ...
A report last week said that 10% of Windows users are already Windows 7 users. Is that already more than Vista achieved (allowing for all those Vista users who reverted to XP)? Anyone who has ...
Just back in Andorra from over two weeks constant travel, mainly in UK and surviving on 3G Dongles. Given the somewhat outrageous charges Vodafone and 3.co.uk levy upon one, once outside of the UK ...
I was saddened to hear about the death of fellow IT scribe and long-time acquaintance Guy Kewney last week. Guy and I go back 20+ years - when I came out of the world of IT networking and went into ...
Hola from the land of melting snow and enlightened fibre.Had a problem with my termination equipment (no, I don't mean death devices, I keep away from superbikes and stick to my old Scooby) that ...
IT is often accused, and rightly so, of being too "dry".Some - well most - of the industry just begs to have to proverbial taken out of it. So it's good to see my storage mates Isilon - and ...
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Back to Basics and Back Biting...
- Broadband Testing 19 Feb 2010 -
Mobile World Congress? Let's Start With Netevents...
- Broadband Testing 16 Feb 2010 -
Qtn: When Is An Ethernet Switch Not An Ethernet Switch?
- Broadband Testing 05 Feb 2010 -
How Many 3G Dongles Do You Need?
- Broadband Testing 27 Jan 2010 -
Is No News Really Good News?
- Broadband Testing 15 Jan 2010
In IT it's all too easy to get carried away with smart tech and the attack of the mobiles and other stuff that encourages us to forget about the basics of looking after networks and storage - ...
So - MWC 2010 is currently on in Barcelona, but I was actually down there last week at Netevents - www.netevents.org - speaking on a couple of Cloud Computing panels.The Cloud then - hype or ...
Answer: when it's a power supply.Just released the latest test report for HP on its ProCurve 2520 Ethernet switch - http://www.broadband-testing.co.uk/ReportList.aspx - and the point of interest ...
Travelling Cross Country (in the train sense too) today twixt West of Yorkshire and Abingdon for a meeting; as ever lots to do, report adds/changes, presentations, emails to send and receive. So, ...
It's the middle of January now and, since snow and tragic earthquakes do not qualify as mainstream networking news, I've been patiently waiting for some news to appear in the networking world so ...