Recent Blog Posts

I’ve been making a bit of noise in this bloggy column of mine now about sassy SASE for some time, but it seems I’m not the only one (other than Gartner wot coined the concept). The world of ...

The whole WFH/ WFA (Work From Home/Anywhere) initiative that was somewhat enforced on the world’s working population as a result of the “P” word, has largely been well received, but a new survey ...

The ENIAC is 75 years old. This complex piece of kit from the 1940s was the world’s first computer. It was commissioned by the US army to calculate missile trajectories. It was officially launched ...

If you’re going to ask a customer a question, ask them a proper one! You can’t get much bigger than looking at the future of enterprise networking and security, but that’s what a recent survey by ...

Previously, in this blog space we looked at cloud application acceleration and how it might finally kill off the wounded beast that never dies that is MPLS, and how SASE can be an underlying ...

It may be an anniversary that passed people by in the current bizarre climes, but "good old" Ethernet recently celebrated its 40th birthday. I don't think any vendors released a special 40Gbps ...

Earlier in the year, in this space I talked about SASE – Secure Access Service Edge – pronounced “sassy” as being one of the most relevant new Gartner definitions to explore and understand. And I ...

Well - the pandemic is still very much at large, along with the impacts on life, the universe and everything. And so, the new normal becomes the normal normal as the old normal doesn’t exist any ...

This is a guest post by Nicola Millard, principal innovation partner, BT The future isn’t at all what we expected. Ten years ago, we might easily have imagined the contact centre of 2020 as an ...

In what must be one of the most inappropriate gestures in the history of human life, adult website CamSoda has offered free webcam sessions to the 3,600-plus passengers currently quarantined aboard ...

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward man": regardless of whether you think God likes them or is pleased with their views on: Brexit, Climate Change, How to manage the ...

It would take someone over five million years to watch the amount of video carried across IP networks each month in 2021 – that’s how much video content we’ll be consuming over the next few years. ...

The Volvo Ocean race is not only an amazing feat of human endurance but a herculean IT project

During the conference call on Apple’s third-quarter earnings, CEO Tim Cook touched on the company’s decision to pull out VPN (virtual private network) apps from its China app store. The reason: ...

The data driven enterprise needs APIs to interconnect its applications and ease-of-use to ensure broad access to data

What does Bluetooth 5 mean for IoT and the smart home? Inspect-a-Gadget speaks to Steve Hegenderfer from body behind the Bluetooth specification.

Problematic events happen and organisations need to be able to cope when things go wrong. Business resilience has always required organisations to consider many diverse elements - premises, people, ...

Twilio (pronounced TWILL-e-o) is a cloud PaaS company that works very closely with software application developers as the firm's technology is designed to enable coders to 'programmatically' make ...

BT Group failing to invest potentially hundreds of millions a year in infrastructure, service standards at Openreach consistently poor

Genband has used its Orlando-located Perspectives16 user/customer/partner/developer event to announce news of US military graded approval for its communications technology. The firm's ...