Opinion

Opinion

• What IT leaders should be putting on their Christmas wish list

  Gary Bell, executive director - outsourcing, Civica shares his advice about just what technologies customers should be looking to invest in to make sure they start of 2017 with a bang  Continue Reading

• If only security experts could persuade us to change passwords

  The inability for most users to grasp the importance of the password is something that Nick Booth thinks needs to be better addressed  Continue Reading

• The true value of mobile device management

  Ian van Reenen, vice president of engineering, endpoint products at Autotask, shares some thoughts about the challenges facing those trying to manage mobile devices  Continue Reading

• What happened to the HP machine?

  Anyone remember the HP announcement about 'the machine'? Billy MacInnes does and he wonders just what has happened to the grand project  Continue Reading

• Demystifying the myths of the channel and the cloud

  Niko Mykkanen, head of partner channel strategy, Amazon Web Services EMEA, shares some thoughts about the way the channel can approach the cloud  Continue Reading

• Business has to stand for something

  With so much happening in the political world at the moment it is hard for business leaders to keep silent on their views, notes Billy Macinnes  Continue Reading

• Industrial Internet of Things: Redefining MSP service offerings

  Ian van Reenen, vice president of engineering, endpoint products at Autotask, looks at the opportunities IoT in the commercial sector offers MSPs  Continue Reading

• Channel people still play a vital role

  Hearing that channel firms are growing is welcome news for Billy MacInnes and he wonders just what is driving that success  Continue Reading

• Five tips for managing currency risk ahead of the US election

  With the US election only three weeks away, Alex Edwards, head of the corporate desk at UKForex, gives his five top tips for managing currency risk, whatever the outcome  Continue Reading

• Who can hold out against price rises?

  Moves announced by Microsoft to increase prices are perhaps inevitable concludes Billy MacInnes as he casts his eye over the post Brexit landscape  Continue Reading

• Breaking down the barriers to Smart Tech in the home

  Rod Slater, head of Smart Tech & IoT at Exertis, has some advice about how the channel can take advantage of the wave of smart technology targeted at the home  Continue Reading

• Let's have a meeting in the echo chamber

  There is a real danger, according to some research that has come to the attention of Billy MacInnes, that meetings are failing in their purpose  Continue Reading

• Software defined storage is a false economy says Nexsan boss

  Nick Booth has been catching up with Nexsan to hear why some of the promises of an easy life might not be quite so accurate  Continue Reading

• Security defences are holding

  There is plenty of doom and gloom about just how prepared customers are on the security front but Billy MacInnes has found some research that challenges that perception  Continue Reading

• People must think the cloud computing industry is a bunch of Yahoos

  Nick Booth has some thoughts on the revelations that Yahoo suffered a major security breach that went unreported for quite some time  Continue Reading