Opinion

Opinion

Network Infrastructure Solutions and Services

• The need for a trade show to land a big Wale

  Getting people to give up their time is getting more of a challenge but as Simon Quicke observes the keynote slot could provide some of the answer  Continue Reading

• Why network monitoring should be fundamental to everything partners do

  Network monitoring offers an open platform for partners to deliver value says Rupert Collier, senior channel manager at Paessler,  Continue Reading

• Both parties make fluffy broadband promises

  The manifestos are out, the gloves are on and the broadband remains off... for non-city dwellers  Continue Reading

• Did you miss IoT day?

  It might not have been marked in the diary or circled on the calendar but there is an Internet of Things Day, which Billy MacInnes finds out has been around for a while  Continue Reading

• Load balancing covers all bases

  George Zervos from KEMP Technologies looks at changes in the load balancing market and detects a touch of paranoia when it comes to the cloud  Continue Reading

• 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