Opinion

Opinion

Network Infrastructure Solutions and Services

• Careful what you say there Thorsten

  Any business leader will know the importance of being clear in their language. Say something wrong and it can seriously damage the share price. So perhaps the Blackberry maker RIM's new CEO is getting a lesson in the value of being careful fairly ...  Continue Reading

• Column: Wi-Fi makes cities more dangerous - great news for security resellers!

  London is lagging behind Manchester, Amsterdam, Paris and Stockholm in mobile cybercrime, according to a new risk analysis report commissioned by Norton.  Continue Reading

• Column: It's in the public interest

  In the public interest, this column spear phished Piers Morgan, so we could help put the record straight and prove his innocence of all the disgraceful charges of phone hacking.  Continue Reading

• Start-up offers Cisco $1 for WebEx

  Private equity-backed meeting platform software specialist SalesCrunch has made an apparently genuine offer to Cisco to buy its WebEx web-conferencing service for a single dollar (63p), plus 15% equity in the business.  Continue Reading

• Five minute interview: Tim Marston, 10gen

  This week, Tim Marston, EMEA channel manager at open source database software specialist 10gen, answers our probing questions Tell us what you do for a living. As the EMEA channel manager for 10gen, I am responsible for building and managing our ...  Continue Reading

• Welsh businesses could get .Cymru domain names

  Businesses based in Wales could soon be able to end their URLs with .Wales or .Cymru after.uk guardian Nominet unveiled plans to set up a top level domain (TLD) for the Principality.  Continue Reading

• Reseller remakes Snakes on a Plane

  One reseller-turned-amateur pilot on the Czech Republic has come up with a novel idea for a spot of cross channel marketing activity.  Continue Reading

• Column: Cisco's mobile predictions don't entirely add up

  Billy MacInnes takes a closer look at Cisco's latest mobility statistics that appear to suggest mobile devices will soon outnumber people.  Continue Reading

• What gets IT pros in the mood for love?

  With Valentine's Day literally just around the corner, one's thoughts naturally turn to overpriced meals served by harassed staff in crowded restaurants or, depending on circumstance, a bottle of wine and a Richard Curtis DVD.  Continue Reading

• Column: Get ready for the Big IPV6 Society

  Have you ever fallen victim to short keys? You know the type of thing. With one movement you highlight everything. With the next you delete it all.  Continue Reading

• The year of the innovator

  Cisco UK and Ireland CTO Ian Foddering explores the findings of the firm's recent TechWatch 2012 report, and argues for new approaches to IT strategy and training. Many IT decision makers have 2012 pegged as a year in which technology can deliver a ...  Continue Reading

• Five minute interview: Adam Winkelmann, Emulex

  This week, we subject Adam Winkelmann, vice president of international operations at converged networking vendor Emulex to our Five Minute Interview. Tell us what you do for a living?  Continue Reading

• Android business users get new UC functionality

  The increasing importance of Android to the business mobile experience was reflected this week with two UC vendors launching new apps for the platform.  Continue Reading

• Column: Keep your nerve in the M2M comms minefield

  As the man at the shop will have told you when you ordered your automated butler,M2M communications are going to be massive in the coming months.  Continue Reading

• The network will continue to assert itself in 2012

  In a new guest blog, Dan Cunliffe, head of BE wholesale, looks at the growing assertiveness of the networking sector at the heart of the IT proposition, and explores some of the trends that will continue to shape the industry in 2012. 2012 will ...  Continue Reading