June 2011

Cisco – it never rains but it pours
Cisco has been going through a rough time of late, particularly in terms of its product lines, including getting back to basics – producing switches and routers.European datacentres market comment
Latest research from European Data Centres on the Q1 2011 has shown some improvement although demand remains tentative.IPv6 deployment
The last available IPv4 addresses have been allocated and the adoption of the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, is upon us and will be able to accommodate the exponential growth of the Internet.Used \ Refurbished Cisco
It’s in your interests to maximise the return you get on your network infrastructure investment.Cloud Security
Awareness of the cloud continues to dominate CIOs’ thinking for 2011; however security is top of their concerns along with wider risk factors.Cisco: Re-engineering the business
Cisco has been through the wringer recently; poor results, too many acquisitions, stretched by too many markets, being sued for PoE patent infringements, erosion of margins in core switches and routers as well as a reliance on the public sector – all this has led to a real lack of confidence in the industry leader.Core router and ethernet switch market

Latest results for the first quarter for 2011 in the relative market shares for the core routers, edge routers and switches, Ethernet services, Edge routers and carrier Ethernet switches have s

The location of datacentres
Datacentres require two key elements to be as cost effective as possible; firstly located in a cool environment as they produce enormous amounts of heat energy and secondly with a good affordable power resource.

7 Jun 2011

Virtualised server infrastructure security
For IT and Network managers, moving to a virtualised server environment will enable them to take advantage of the surfeit of computing resources within their networks.

3 Jun 2011

Trends in IT – virtualisation and cloud computing
Enough has been written and talked about over the past few years regarding the emphasis on virtualisation and cloud computing, but whatever happened to the network?