March 2011

Protecting people from themselves
“The problem with making things foolproof is that we keep evolving a better class of fool”.Who’s buying technology?
In the past technology was procured by the CIO or IT Director, however that decision is changing as technology integral to companies becomes a business decision.Cisco Security Architecture
Cisco has announced that it is working on a complicated security architecture called SecureX that will apparently provide a ‘context-aware’ way of safeguarding networks that are under security pressure from virtualisation, Smartphones and tablets.Cisco Catalyst 6500 – is it future proof?
The question you have to ask yourself is; can your Cisco Catalyst platform deliver the demands that today’s datacentres need and can they do so in the future?Energy efficiency a turn-off for IT
Energy efficient power management technologies are widely available and most businesses understand that it saves money and helps the environment, however IT departments rarely see or are responsible for their company’s energy bill.Optical network hardware market increase
The worldwide optical network hardware market increased 10% to $3.38 billion in the last quarter compared to the previous quarter according the latest research figures from Infonetics Research.Cisco’s routers and switches transition
Cisco’s revenues are being affected by a strategic shift away from switches and routers towards new markets; as Cisco needs to increase its future growth.The Future of Video Conferencing
Cisco is a believer in video communications in that Cisco predicts that it will become all pervasive – ‘90% of all Internet traffic will be video by 2014’.