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March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22
Competitive pricing, network monitoring drive SD-WAN selection

Research reveals competitive pricing and monitoring features rank highest in companies’ software-defined wide area networking SD-WAN supplier selection, while WAN optimisation and standardisation rank lowest
March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22
Undersea cable market steams ahead in Africa and Middle East

Twofold capacity increase supports East Africa’s digital transformation as work continues on Equiano subsea cable linking Africa to Europe
March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22
Virgin Media Business Wholesale brings dark fibre, managed services capacity to south Wales

Major fibre upgrade by wholesale arm of UK cable provider more than doubles capacity across Wales to support demand from wholesale partners, ensuring shorter delivery times for customer projects
February 18, 2022 18 Feb'22
Lawyers say ‘unprecedented’ secrecy deprived EncroChat defendants of fair trials

Lawyers from seven countries say it is impossible for their clients to challenge the accuracy, authenticity, reliability and legality of the evidence against them

How to beat the heat: What can datacentre operators do to meet emissions targets?

With new mandates around sustainability proliferating, datacentres must find ways to meet their environmental goals while remaining competitive and meeting customer service-level expectations Continue Reading
How SASE is set to determine the future

We take a look at the SASE environment and what challenges and benefits lie ahead in the adoption of secure access service edge Continue Reading
Cisco's future banks on security, service providers, 5G

A big part of Cisco's future strategy will be enhancing its global presence and service provider customer base. For networking, it still pursues software and subscription models. Continue Reading

Juniper Is Getting The Hang Of Acquisitions...

Had an excellent catch-up with Apstra, a company I’ve followed since day one, fascinated by its concept of “intent-based networking”. After all, my IT raison d’etre is to prove that stuff “does ... Continue Reading
Homeworking - the new norm - is there any other option...

In the last blog, I touched on the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the obvious fallout here is the massive increase in home/remote working, something I’ve been practicing since 1989 – ... Continue Reading
What's In A Number? Er, Lots Of Packets Per Second...

I remember when first testing Gigabit Ethernet (Packet Engines and Foundry Networks for the record) and thinking: "how do we harness this much bandwidth - maybe take a TDM approach and slice it? ... Continue Reading

Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications

Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
Max Schrems’s mass surveillance complaint knocked back another year or two by Irish judge

Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon has neatly avoided having to deal with the US surveillance of Facebook users in Europe by referring a complaint by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems to the European Court of Justice Continue Reading
Sale, spin-off or stay put? What should EMC do next?

With reports suggesting some major changes may be afoot at EMC, Clive Longbottom looks at the reasons why Continue Reading