Cloudy WiFi? Why Not?
Profile: Steve Broadhead
WiFi/WLAN is taken so much for granted nowadays, that it's easy to forget just how far it has come in recent years. Given that it took around 15 years to get from proprietary 1Mbps technologies such as those offered by NCR (WaveLAN) and Olivetti (can't remember the product name, except that they...
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Of Acquisitions And Integration
Profile: Steve Broadhead
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...
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The Network Is Dead – Long Live The Network!
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I remember writing a column for a long since deceased IT publication, where I was discussing the rebirth of the mainframe as a network server, I remember it, not simply for the content, but more specifically the context, and how the sub-editors, in the name of...
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Who Said Virtualisation Was Supposed To Simplify Things…
Profile: Steve Broadhead
So, we went from hardware to software, and then software to virtual, the idea being not only that everything is more efficient, but also easier to scale and manage. Kind of VLANs part two?
Cloud Innovation and Groundhog Day Combined…
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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".
Next Gen Network Management
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Benchmarking Integration…
Profile: Steve Broadhead
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...
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Trouble-Ticketing – The Future Is Here!
Profile: Steve Broadhead
IT doesn't so much go round in circles as overlapping rings - think the Olympic sign. That's to say, it does repeat itself but with additions and a slightly changed working environment each time.
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Technology At What Prize?
Profile: Steve Broadhead
Just wanted to give everyone with a good tech idea up their bit of T-shirt that covers the upper arm - given that it is summer -) a heads up about a new IT ideas competition called Tech Trailblazers - www.techtrailblazers.com - organised by my (and many others) old PR mate, Rose Ross. Well,...
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What’s Next To Virtualise? The Network Of Course…
Profile: Steve Broadhead
Wore my journalist hat yesterday to attend an HP update event on its ESSN division (don't worry about what the initials stand for, but N is for Networking...).
While not the key focus of yesterday's blurb, the key thing for me to take from the event was...
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