Facebook’s datacenters at the edge of the Arctic Circle in Lulea, Sweden need to have sufficient connectivity to provide performance, now and in the future, for all the activities Facebook believes its users will be carrying out. Your average wide area network connectivity is not […]
Clive Longbottom
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The predictions for the growth in data volumes are stark – the impact of a large increase in the number and diversity of devices being attached to networks through the internet of things (IoT) and internet of everything (IoE) will be massive. Alongside the need […]
Three-legged stools can be found all over the place – bar stools, children’s stools, farmers’ milking stools are just a few. This isn’t because having three legs is cheaper than 4: it is actually that three legs are better than four in many cases. Take […]
Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece on why IPv6 has not taken off. 12 months on, has much changed? To a greater extent, the urgency behind why IPv6 has to be adopted has grown – as mentioned in this piece pulling out […]
Business continuity is the new Holy Grail. Where once people used to look to ‘rapid’ backup and restore capabilities to recover from a disaster, this is no longer good enough in many cases. Backup windows are commonly insufficiently long to carry out the required actions […]
Is the Internet of Things (IoT) the same as the Internet of Everything (IoE)? Lots of vendors seem to want you to think so – however, I would like to make a differentiation between them – for reasons that I hope will become apparent. As […]
You probably know the problem already. The business is opening up a new office; has acquired a new company or wants to move a group of people from Place A to Place B. They have finally got around to letting IT know that it will […]
The commonly used means of providing internet access to remote or small offices is via a wired (or fiber) connection. From ISDN through ADSL to T1 and DS3 lines, much money has been spent on provisioning and operating such lines. However, times are changing, and […]
Here in the UK, each telecommunications provider has just upped the cost of renting a land line… by around three times the rate of inflation. Is this to raise money for investment in new networks or new functionality? Hardly. It is more likely to be […]
Life used to be so good. An operating system was loaded onto a server of some sort and an application stack loaded on top of that. Provided the workload remained pretty static, the performance was pretty much guaranteed. The problem was that most workloads weren’t […]