Opinion

Opinion

Network Infrastructure Solutions and Services

• Channel checklist: building the ideal network

  James Arnold Roberts of Genius Networks identifies some of the hurdles that resellers will need to overcome to ensure they provide the customer with the ideal networking solution  Continue Reading

• Hardware-defined security? Now that’s original

  Nick Booth argues that technology always been software-defined and suggests that surely hardware-defined would be true innovation  Continue Reading

• New world of opportunities heralds fresh challenges for the network

  The internet of things will bring enormous benefits, but organisations must have the right foundations, writes Nick Itta  Continue Reading

• The irony in Cisco's dip in form

  Cisco blamed the spying scandal for hitting its recent numbers but wasn't it meant to be Huawei that was the networking vendor suspected of espionage asks Billy MacInnes  Continue Reading

• Making the network child's play

  Brocade's Simon Pollard argues for a simpler approach to networking, and says the channel should take inspiration from Lego bricks  Continue Reading

• An online shocking experience

  For many of us, Wednesday was a shocking day productivity wise, and it was all thanks to networking technology, says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• How to make the broadband vision come true

  O2 Wholesale's Dan Cunliffe looks at how the channel can help the government make good on its vision of the future of broadband in the UK  Continue Reading

• Plain speaking gets you clouds, but no smoke and mirrors

  You can only sell to SMEs if you speak their language, so it's time to start brushing up. Nick Booth meets 4D, a datacentre firm that's doing just that  Continue Reading

• Silver Peak stuffs the network manager and the data

  Silver Peak's new WAN optimisation solution, Velocity, could heighten tensions between your customers' networking and storage managers, reckons Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• SCH sells distribution business – what took it so long?

  In the wake of SCH's decision to sell its distribution business, Billy MacInnes asks, why now?  Continue Reading

• Five Minute Interview: Neil Crockett, Cisco

  Neil Crockett, managing director 2012 at Cisco UK & Ireland, takes the hotseat for our Five Minute Interview.  Continue Reading

• Video: as simple as a phone call?

  Video continues to rise in popularity, but will it ever achieve the ubiquity of the traditional voice call?  Continue Reading

• Meet John Chambers, Huawei's new marketing star

  MicroScope has long been a fan of Cisco CEO John Chambers. We admire him for, among other things, his easy-going manner, his old school Southern charm and his willingness to be outspoken and candid when it comes to the big issues of the day.  Continue Reading

• Booze-fuelled BlackBerry stabbing caps off rotten week at RIM

  As if it wasn't bad enough that ill-considered comments from CEO Thorsten Heims led last week to panicked headlines about RIM being on the verge of quitting the consumer business, a violent incident at a vendor event in London has covered the cake ...  Continue Reading

• The return of the payphone

  So often neglected and easily ignored in this mobile-driven age, could the humble payphone be set for a resurgence? Comms disite Nimans is counting on it, and has signed an exclusive agreement with payphone vendor Solitaire to offer the UK's first ...  Continue Reading