Of Acquisitions And Integration

The IT world has gone acquisition bonkers. Dell is paying as much for EMC as any football club would do to secure the combined services of Messi and Ronaldo. Well almost...
Meantime, a couple of companies I keep tabs on have also been in acquisition...
Cloud Innovation and Groundhog Day Combined…

Within the general misty definition of "Cloud", sometimes something pokes through the veil of ether-precipitation that says "I'm new and I make sense".
Benchmarking Integration…

Just finished some testing at test equipment partner Spirent's offices in glamorous Crawley with client Voipex - some fab results on VoIP optimization so watch this space for the forthcoming report - and it made me think just how...
Big Data = Big Transfer Speeds?

So - there's been all this talk about Big Data and how it's replaced classic transactional processing in many application instances.
Tech Trailblazers Update

Just a quickie update to all you vendors with mega technology out there re: the Tech Trailblazer awards wot I blogged about earlier this summer.
At The End Of The Network

One of the problems we've faced in trying to maximise throughput in the past has not been at the network - say
And Yet More SDN…

I don't think I can remember a time - and this is saying something - when there were SO many hyper buzz-phrases in IT circulation as there are currently. Every cloud variant, Big Data, SDN...