Let’s do a quick calculation. How many employees do you have, rounded up to the nearest 100? What percentage of them are mobile? Have they sourced their own devices through BYOD? Do you use VPN access through to a private data center? Hang on… what has the last question got to do with all this? [...]
Broadband – A Game of Leap Frog, or Just A Squashed Toad?
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Being old and gnarly, I remember the way that I, as a Brit, could look down my nose at the Yanks during the late 1990s as our fully integrated mobile telephone system, stretching across the whole of the European continent was so modern. It made the US’ approach — having to tell a provider that [...]
11 Places For Geeks
Apr 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen the headlines over the last year or so: “The end of IT,” “No software,” “The move to cloud.” It looks as though the days of the geek are numbered. The capability to dig into the bowels of technology through the use of CLIs (if you need to be told what a CLI [...]
5 steps to mitigating “OBEM” syndrome
Apr 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Organizations tend to worry about security based on thoughts of Ninja Blackhats doing the technical equivalent of rappelling through the roof of Fort Knox and running off with several billion dollars’ worth of gold bullion. In technical terms, the Ninja Blackhat manages to bypass security and makes good their escape with the organization’s intellectual property [...]
Venn Shall We Three Meet Again?
Apr 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I was at an event recently and the vendor up on stage was trying to show how their company was taking the idea of the consumerization of IT seriously. From Quocirca’s point of view, consumerization is important — the continued growth of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) combined with bring-your-own-software (BYOS) through the downloading of apps to these [...]
Betting On A “Good Enough” Network?
Mar 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As I write this blog, I’m sitting 27 storeys above the Las Vegas Strip, looking down on the concrete jungle that makes up this surreal place. From my window, I can see several of the major casino hotels; several smaller ones hide in the depths. Around me are six out of ten of the world’s [...]
Big Data — a Job For a Logistics Company?
Mar 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
There was a thread going round on Facebook a while back discussing the “fact” that FedEx had more bandwidth for dealing with big data than the internet itself had. OK — it sounds strange, but if all of FedEx’s vehicles were stuffed to the max with disks full of data, it could move more data [...]
OMG! MWC could be a BFD, LOL!
Mar 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As Mobile World Congress (MWC) passes on its weary way in Barcelona, those responsible for technology in organizations should be looking on — even if it is with a slight look of bemusement — to see what the goings-on at the event may mean for them. Firstly, even though MWC remains big, its direct impact [...]
If You Wait Long Enough, The One You Want May Come Along
Feb 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cloud computing — the provision of IT services through a massively shared, elastic platform — holds much promise. However, like many of the silver bullets that have come and gone in the past (client/server, CORBA, web services, service-oriented architectures), everything only hangs together if everyone plays the game and doesn’t try to be too clever. [...]
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