Opinion

Opinion

• Even Rambo can't help this time

  Rambo might have helped released trapped US military personnel on the silver screen but Billy MacInnes thinks he would struggle to liberate American IT cash stuck overseas  Continue Reading

• Mysterious security firms mysteriously quiet at Infosec

  You could be forgiven for thinking the security industry didn't want any publicity, says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• The squeezed middle in the IT jobs market

  There has been a lot of talk about the squeezed middle over the past couple of years and as Billy MacInnes finds it is also an issue in the IT jobs world  Continue Reading

• The rotten reality TV at the heart of English Apprentice tribunal

  The real villain of the Apprentice employment tribunal is not Stella English or Lord Sugar, it's the rotten reality TV format, argues Alex Scroxton  Continue Reading

• Throw security to the wind: companies and dictators to meet at Infosec

  Nick Booth looks at some of this year’s Infosec exhibitors, and makes plans to chat to Kim Jong-un in the press room  Continue Reading

• Could the 'app gap' be harming your business?

  Gary Calcott from Progress Software says that with widespread 4G just around the corner, now is the time to address how specialist mobile apps could help your business  Continue Reading

• Windows XP user? It's not the end of the world

  Billy MacInnes looks ahead to the end of Microsoft Windows XP support next year, and suggests that the growing sense of urgency may be misplaced.  Continue Reading

• Getting ready for a future of loving IT

  Something's never seem to change but even in video conferencing and databases Nick Booth finds the world is not once as it was  Continue Reading

• In-flight answers to the skills crisis

  The idea that the answers to the tech skills problem could be found with a plane of experts is no April's Fool joke, as Billy MacInnes discovers  Continue Reading

• Cloud creates specialist opportunities for the channel

  SpectraLogic's Steve Mackey says the channel can find significant cloud opportunities hiding in complex, in-house projects  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

• Hey, keep the noise down!

  Nick Booth wants to make your working environment an altogether more pleasant one  Continue Reading

• Abracadabra it's the invisible channel

  The word invisible is not commonly used in the channel but as Billy MacInnes discovers it could be about to become quite popular  Continue Reading

• Silver linings in the server and storage market playbook

  As customers move to more agile infrastructures, virtualisation and the cloud could drive higher value sales potential for servers and more attach potential with storage, says Fujitsu's Craig Parker  Continue Reading

• Reseller specialisms are all in vogue

  As Toshiba launches its reseller specialism Billy MacInnes wonders just why so many vendors are doing the same and asks if it helps resellers stand out  Continue Reading