Opinion

Opinion

• Meet John Chambers, Huawei's new marketing star

  MicroScope has long been a fan of Cisco CEO John Chambers. We admire him for, among other things, his easy-going manner, his old school Southern charm and his willingness to be outspoken and candid when it comes to the big issues of the day.  Continue Reading

• Column: Cash in the Static

  Dead Social allows you to keep posting up messages after you're dead. Technically speaking, you must load them onto the system before you start flatlining, but these postings can be timed to appear whenever is apposite.  Continue Reading

• Booze-fuelled BlackBerry stabbing caps off rotten week at RIM

  As if it wasn't bad enough that ill-considered comments from CEO Thorsten Heims led last week to panicked headlines about RIM being on the verge of quitting the consumer business, a violent incident at a vendor event in London has covered the cake ...  Continue Reading

• The three Cs of cloud computing

  Ian Moyse, recently appointed UK sales director at web-based CRM vendorWorkbooks.com, shares his perspective on the cloud. Cloud is the big 'C' word in the channel right now, posing 'C'onflict, 'C'onfusion and ‘C'hallenges to the status quo.  Continue Reading

• The return of the payphone

  So often neglected and easily ignored in this mobile-driven age, could the humble payphone be set for a resurgence? Comms disite Nimans is counting on it, and has signed an exclusive agreement with payphone vendor Solitaire to offer the UK's first ...  Continue Reading

• Opinion: The reluctance of the channel to move to cloud-based backup

  There are several reasons why the channel should be encouraging customers using old technology to move to cloud-based backup.  Continue Reading

• Five minute interview: Chris Baldock, intY

  This week, MicroScope puts its questions to Chris Baldock at enterprise cloud solutions specialist intY tell us what you do for a living Managing director, intY. Why are you the right person for this job?  Continue Reading

• 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: How will you celebrate world backup day?

  Some cynics said it would never take off, but World Backup Day has really caught the public's imagination.  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: Has Whitman found the PSG answer?

  It's an intriguing story about plans by HP to combine its PC and imaging and print divisions, writes Billy MacInnes.  Continue Reading

• Column: Welcome to the IT shop of the future

  Worrying about the future of the channel is enough to drive anyone to drink. There's a pub full of serious drinkers that I drop into once a week. It's a place where nobody judges you because everyone has a sad story to tell.  Continue Reading

• Column: Why should your social media profiles affect your job prospects?

  I'm sure that quite a few people are now only too aware that what they write on social media or the company they keep on Facebook could cost them their job. But there are a lot of people who aren't.  Continue Reading

• Apple sparks the queues again

  The words 'iPad' and 'queues' seem to go hand in hand whenever there is a major product launch and sure enough it's happened again. Apple fans down under queued up to get their mitts on the latest iPad giving the vendor the sort of exposure that ...  Continue Reading

• An audit is the first step to a better service

  The decision by Check Point to offer resellers up to £600 of incentives for every 10 security assessments they carry out is an interesting one.  Continue Reading