Opinion

Opinion

• Resellers should issue fines for data littering

  Nick Booth asks why can't we fine people for fouling up the information superhighway?  Continue Reading

• VoIP enters a mix of trends that will strain business broadband in 2013

  Dan Cunliffe, head of partners and strategy at O2 Wholesale, says bandwidth demands created by VoIP are going to loom large this year  Continue Reading

• BETT wrestles with BYOD in action

  One of the major challenges facing schools is to deal with the rising number of pupils that want to use hardware in a more flexible way  Continue Reading

• What is the value of a cloud certification?

  With the announcement that SMEs have been knocking on the door of the Cloud Industry Forum trying to get certified, Billy MacInnes wonders why  Continue Reading

• Somewhere over the Verizon

  Heard the Verizon story about the man who outsourced his job? Sounds a bit cheesy... Nick Booth investigates  Continue Reading

• 4G to drive BYOD and desktop virtualisation growth

  Comms-care managing director Ben Davies looks at how 4G mobile services could affect take-up of other technologies among end users  Continue Reading

• Build your own cloud

  In his final article, Richard Davies, CEO at ElasticHosts, moves the story on to show how channel players who have reached a critical mass can build their own cloud in their own data centre.  Continue Reading

• Barclays is listening if you have the right business model

  Billy MacInnes applauds Barclays telling the channel it wants to lend but is rather worried about just who would get the thumbs up from the bank  Continue Reading

• Driving efficiency and financial gain through SAM

  John Lunt, MD of Certero, argues that too many firms are losing out on the benefits of software asset management, and offers some ideas on how to transform ‘blinkered’ attitudes to SAM  Continue Reading

• The world didn't end after all

  Just before Christmas there were some expecting the world to end but as Billy MacInnes finds out, the speculation won't have helped to shift any servers  Continue Reading

• The datacentre combover

  Are you recruiting a datacentre manager? You can tell a lot about them by their hairstyle, says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• 2012: a strong year with more to come

  At the end of a year in which cloud has rarely been off the front page in the tech industry, VMware UK channel boss Ed Dolman looks back at a busy 12 months for virtualisation partners  Continue Reading

• Planning your channel IT security strategy for 2013

  Some IT security experts share their predictions of what 2013 may have to offer to help plan your security strategy  Continue Reading

• Keep taking the tablets: mobile dumbness isn't terminal

  New research suggests that tablets make our IQs lower. What a brilliant idea – there's no better way to keep the workers down than an electronic cosh, says Nick Booth  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