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...
Shock – WiFi Actually Generating Revenue Streams

I recently had the "pleasure" of visiting Milton Keynes; the railway station was packed with what were surely tourists - some mistake here? Admittedly, all looking in a hurry to get back to London... does "Stratford-Upon-Avon" translate aurally as "Milton Keynes" in some languages?
Shopping In A WiFi Cloud…

"Cloud" and "WLAN" or "WiFi" are not, to date, IT terms that are typically seen in tandem, but Tallac Systems, a new venture for a number of ex HP er, yes - let's say it - veterans (I reckon I can out-run you guys if necessary) are looking to create one from t'other.
Next Gen Network Management

Anything New For 2013?

So here we are, already several weeks into 2013 and is there anything new to report on the networking front?
Did You Know That HP Is A Networking Company?

Thus it has always been so - HP networking, AKA ProCurve in the "old days", has been a success in spite of its "parent" company and, today, amidst the doom and gloom financial results the company has posted, and all the Autonomy naming, blaming and shaming going on, I couldn't help but help notice...
Physical Software Defined Networking…

Following on from last week's OD of SDN at Netevents, we have some proper, physical (ironically) SDN presence in the launch of an SDN controller from HP.
IT Is Prawn Cocktail ?

Bem Vindo from the Algarve, at the latest Netevents symposium.
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
Optimisation Springs To Life

It's been a busy old Spring so far - I'm still trying to get my head around the recession - IT is going bonkers, spending like the world is about to end (does somebody know something we don't?), every flight I take from wherever to wherever is full and when I take a few days...