Opinion

Opinion

• VMware’s motivation for joining foundation is fooling no one

  Abiquo CEO Jim Darragh says that while VMware's decision to join OpenStack was no surprise, its motivation for joining is fooling nobody  Continue Reading

• We need new solutions to ease the credit log jam

  With new figures from the FPB showing that many businesses still can't access credit, Billy MacInnes argues that the time has come for new approaches to lending  Continue Reading

• Nominet and the Big Issue offer hope to the hopeless

  Have you invented an app that hasn’t quite taken off? If you can tweak it and apply it for some kind of socially useful purpose, you could get a massive helping hand. Nick Booth investigates  Continue Reading

• Avoiding the need to splash out on videoconferencing hardware

  Fraser Dean, director, UK&I and South Africa, Vidyo, examines if there are alternatives to costly hardware upgrades.  Continue Reading

• Disrupting London? Just what I want from technology

  The IT industry keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Nick Booth asks why we keep talking in riddles  Continue Reading

• No surprises in SME attitude to mobility

  Bill MacInnes finds little to provoke surprise in the findings of Symantec research that reveals SMEs are lagging behind enterprise customers in their response to security.  Continue Reading

• You, cloud salesman, are a CAD

  Resellers who try to lead SMEs into a virtual world of pain have created a new genre of product – Cloud-as-a-Disservice (CAD), says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• Resellers should look for opportunities in the home

  If consumers are going to take their gadgets into work, what's to stop the IT resellers from going into their homes? Nick Booth has an idea  Continue Reading

• The seven cliches of cloud

  Cloud computing: the very name conjures up images of steam driven vapourware. As if that wasn't bad enough, salesmen keep repeating some even more off-putting terms, says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• Dell is going to get his company back

  As Michael Dell tries to get private control of the company he founded Billy MacInnes wonders if his strategy for reinventing the vendor will work  Continue Reading

• Cost is still the issue with cloud

  Billy MacInnes casts his eyes over the latest research issued by the Cloud Industry Forum looking at the channel's progress selling hosted services  Continue Reading

• 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