Company describes “a successful summer of testing events”, ahead of July 2012 kick-off.

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Huge benefits are claimed for allowing employees to work from home – but a recent academic study stands out for its rigorous approach to the subject.

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It’s time for IT teams to pick their strategy for managing employee-owned mobile devices, because consumerisation is already having a major impact on corporate mobility.

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Our expert panel met at IP EXPO 2011 to discuss what’s needed for companies of all sizes to reap the considerable competitive benefits promised by Big Data approaches.

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An IP EXPO 2011 meeting with executives from iTrinegy, to catch up on the latest news from this UK-based application performance management and network emulation company.

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At IP EXPO 2011, we met with Dr Phil Richards, director of IT services at Loughborough University, to discuss the institution’s recent, “groundbreaking” project to tap into the benefits of cloud computing.

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Presentations at IP EXPO aim to help IT professionals place the right bets when it comes to their company’s cloud computing strategy.

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Despite the hype, it’s time to sit up and pay attention to big data, because it could be the deciding factor in whether your company is ahead of its field or merely an also-ran.

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Major upgrades may be needed if corporate network infrastructures are to meet the challenges of bandwidth-intensive media and cloud computing, say presenters at this year’s IP EXPO.

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Security presentations at IP EXPO 2011 aim to address IT decision-makers’ key concerns over data risk. Jessica Twentyman looks at some of the seminars on this year’s agenda.

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Organisations are used to managing IT as an investment in owned and operated applications, servers, and networks. The biggest impact of cloud computing is that the same teams will will now need to think about managing IT in terms of services, computing resources and capacity provisioning tools. Public, private, or hybrid cloud adoption will not [...]

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Juniper’s new chief security architect talks to IP EXPO ONLINE about his new role and why he thinks cloud computing is still “in diapers”.

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In the race to turn data into usable information, it’s time for businesses to rethink storage architectures, says Mat Young, EMEA senior director at Fusion-io.

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David Galton-Fenzi, group sales and marketing director at IT distributor Zycko, challenges IT decision-makers to consider the benefits of shifting to virtualised wLANs.

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Dr Zafar Chaudry, CIO at Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the next-generation network he’s put in place for secure and reliable data transfer, today and tomorrow.

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Vladimir Jirasek, experienced IT security specialist and director of the UK & Ireland chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance, gives his take on a security model that truly supports business needs.

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Richard Pegden, director of product marketing at Centrix Software, gives a guided tour, pointing out opportunities for improvements and new efficiencies.

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Every organisation has an IT service desk. Some are formal functions with dedicated staff while others are just ‘the person’ internal IT customers go to when they need help.”Why user experience narratives trump device efficiency metrics”

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Latest findings from iPass Mobile Working Report suggest that mobile workers work longer hours but are more satisfied employees.

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This one-time niche market is experiencing unprecedented growth and attention, but while new entrants continue to join the fray, a serious shake-out can’t be far ahead, says Jessica Twentyman.

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Today’s users want the freedom to access applications and information from any device and any location. IT teams want to control access, maintain security and contain costs. How can these two sets of apparently conflicting objectives be reconciled, asks Simon Brown, managing director of Scalable?

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Successful IT teams have many things in common. They understand their organisation’s business goals, own IT objectives and deploy resources effectively. And in almost all cases, they use dashboards to help them stay the course.

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It’s time for IT pros to address the “less glamorous” aspects of cloud computing and develop their sourcing and managing skills if the cloud is to deliver on its promise.

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Simon Townsend of AppSense talks to IP EXPO Bulletin about what he believes sets this much talked-about company apart from its competitors.

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Are advances in server and storage technology delivering their full potential? No, because the network is holding organisations back, say Trevor Dearing at Juniper Networks and Simon Brown at Scalable.

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The Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) presents new recommendations for tackling advanced persistent threats (APTs).

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New research from Gartner argues that arrival of ‘attractive’ business intelligence applications on mobile devices is the most visible form of consumerisation to date.

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Dan Holle, chief technology officer at analytic database specialist Vertica, talks to Jessica Twentyman about Hewlett-Packard’s plans for its recent acquisition.

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Wireless LAN technologies have moved on. Today, it’s all about taking a wider view of enterprise mobility, according to Aruba’s EMEA head of marketing.

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Enable the slackers or arm the warriors? At almost one-third of organisations, the distractions of personal communication devices are still a top concern over consumerisation trend, says survey.

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Networking experts give their advice on the best way for IT teams to make the move to IPv6, including available options for running IPv4 and IPv6 together.

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Customers “intrigued” by the possibility of a better desktop management model and operational savings – and they face a growing range of options to achieve their goals.

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Planning a seamless migration is critical to achieving the full benefits of both technologies, says security specialist Symantec.

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VMware’s new chief cloud technologist for EMEA talks about his new role in promoting a wider strategic vision for the company.

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A new survey suggests that the majority of IT decision-makers have so far been disappointed in the cost savings achieved through virtualisation. What’s the problem, asks Jessica Twentyman?

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It’s early days for cloud computing, says a recent survey from North Bridge Venture Partners. Over time, the drivers and hurdles are likely to change.

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How can company decision-makers tell the difference between the cowboys and the good guys when it comes to picking a cloud provider?

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Jessica Twentyman speaks to Mike Sackman, CIO of pub and restaurant chain M&B, about the company’s recent decision to source a private-cloud service from Fujitsu.

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Mobile strategists shouldn’t be fooled into thinking they need to decide between apps or the mobile internet for extending data and functions to users, according to a recent report from Forrester Research.

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In an excerpt from his presentation at IP EXPO 2010, Roger Hockaday, EMEA director of marketing at Aruba Networks, discusses how technology decision-makers should go about selecting technologies for their wireless network build-out.

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A new survey from security company McAfee and Carnegie Mellon University highlights where many companies are going wrong with their mobile security strategies.

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In an extract from her presentation at IP Expo 2010, Diane Johnson, AirDefense manager for EMEA at Motorola, explains wi-fi security is still so patchy and what companies should do address wi-fi weaknesses.

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The term ‘advanced persistent threat’, or APT, is a new and somewhat controversial one in information security circles – but there’s plenty that even small organisations should already be doing to safeguard their valuable intellectual property from theft by hackers.

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Companies looking to secure virtualised desktop environments should be working towards a blende approach that offers maximum flexibility, says Matthew Evans, senior systems consultant in the desktop virtualisation group at Quest Software.

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Video surveillance presents some special challenges and has its own requirements when it comes to storage, archiving and retrieval, as Pauline Norstrom, director of worldwide marketing at AD Group, explains.

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File replication between primary and remote secondary sites offers SMBs all the benefits of cloud storage, without using cloud computing, as Mario Blandini, director of product marketing at Drobo, explains.

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In an excerpt from his presentation at IP Expo 2010, Fred Nemeth, associate director at Iron Mountain, explains why businesses should not allow perfection to be the enemy of good when it comes to defining their information retention policies.

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Desktop virtualisation comes with a number of challenges, but the benefits of this technology are attractive to any organisation where managing a sprawling desktop estate is a constant challenge to hard-pressed IT teams, as this excerpt from an EMC presentation at IP EXPO 2010 explains.

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Companies that install a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) without taking a long, hard look at the client devices that their employees will use may find themselves disappointed with the results they achieve, says David Angwin, EMEA marketing director at Wyse Technology.

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SAN storage is a must-have if businesses of all sizes are to reap the full benefits of server virtualisation – and the consumerisation of IT is putting this technology within reach of SMBs, says Mario Blandini, director of product marketing at Drobo.

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While data centre security is often top of an organisation’s agenda, too little thought is given to the safety of data in transit between data centres, says Christian Illmer of optical networking specialist ADVA, in an excerpt from his presentation at IP EXPO 2010.

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Poor image quality is no longer a hurdle to implementing IP-based security systems, and Ian Dickinson, EMEA professional services manager at March Networks, explains here how high-definition technologies can make organisations safer still.

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Don’t panic: The switchover from IPv4 to IPv6 will happen gradually. But IT teams still need a transition plan to smooth their path, says Melvyn Wray, senior vice-president of product marketing for EMEA at networking specialist Allied Telesis.

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Independent market analyst company Gartner advocates a whole new approach for IT leaders who are looking at existing IT infrastructures and trying to figure out how they can take advantage of cloud services.

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Certain types of stored data grow more quickly and are harder to manage than others. By identifying these and moving them to a cloud-based service, organisations can start to build a firm foundation for future cloud storage projects, says Francois Zimmermann, UK CTO at Hitachi Data Systems.

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A good cloud service provider won’t just help your business to migrate certain services to the cloud. It will also help it to transform – and improve – those services on an ongoing basis, argues Grant Tanner, business development director at Star.

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The private cloud concept promises the benefits of cloud computing, but behind an company’s own firewall. Here, in an extract from her presentation at IP EXPO 2011, Rashmi Tarbatt, chief security architect for EMEA at RSA (the security division of EMC) explains how data security approaches should evolve in order to take advantage of this model.

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Despite a steady dripfeed of data-breach horror stories, too many small and medium-sized companies continue to skimp on data security. With the publication of a proposed security standards, industry organisation ISSA intends to put that right.

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Recent research from the Ponemon Institute explores why UK businesses fall victim to data breaches – as well as the financial impact associated with corporate data that is lost or stolen.

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Paul Roberts, CTO of Tuscany Networks, explains why cache poisoning is a serious security threat that merits a robust response from every IT organisation, in an extract from his presentation at IP EXPO 2010.

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This excerpt of a Drobo broadcast examines approaches to offsite data protection that SMBs can use to recover quickly and in a simple way.

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Traditional wired networks are over-provisioned and under-subscribed. Here, Roger Hockaday, director of marketing for Aruba Networks EMEA, explains why a wireless LAN provides a more flexible and cost-efficient approach to connectivity.

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Across the world, investments in city-wide connectivity are making urban environments smarter, as Ian Bayly, sales director for wireless network solutions at Motorola, explains in an extract from his presentation at IP EXPO 2010.

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Organisations waited a long time for the arrival of the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard. But recent research from IT market research company In-Stat suggests that uptake of the new 802.11ac standard will be as speedy as the performance it promises.

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Thin provisioning and storage resource management tools offer businesses a chance to get more from their storage investments.

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In an extract from his presentation at IP EXPO 2010, Rob Anderson, director of technology & business development for EMEA at Isilon Systems, discusses how solid state disk (SSD) will deliver substantial performance improvements to businesses – and why they need it.

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Storage vendors are setting their sights on the SME market, where low cost and low complexity will be key to their success.

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This excerpt from a January 2011 white paper by Quest Software explains why, in an environment where virtual servers create image files, protecting images is faster and easier than scanning for the thousands of individual files they represent.

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For CIOs, virtualisation and UC have been separate projects with little overlap in terms of planning, technology and budget. That’s starting to change, as Jessica Twentyman reports.

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A successful desktop virtualisation project recognises different classes of users, with differing needs for data and services, as Glenn Fitzgerald, technical director of design and development at Fujitsu UK & Ireland, argued in his presentation at IP EXPO 2010.

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Ready to start building on your early wins with virtualisation? Mark Newton, regional director at VMware UK & Ireland, discusses the next steps IT teams should be considering – and why.

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Jon Rolls, VP of product management for the desktop virtualisation group at Quest, predicts an interesting year ahead for the technology.

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Virtualisation, multiprocessor servers and burgeoning storage requirements are all placing unprecedented stresses on today’s data centre networks. Could 10 gigabit Ethernet technology provide a viable answer in 2011, asks Jessica Twentyman?

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What will 2011 bring for those responsible for managing IP networks? Simon Pamplin, pre-sales director for the UK and Ireland at Brocade, takes a punt on the biggest trends for the coming year.

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In an extract from his presentation at IP EXPO 2010, Darren Chalmers-Stevens, technology development manager at ADT Fire & Safety, explains why IP networking provides a better transport mechanism for data collected from life safety and security systems and how that concept is working at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

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Thinking of moving to a next-generation WAN transport architecture? It’s a move that many companies will make in 2011, and in this article, taken from his presentation at IP Expo 2010, Jeff Smith, head of product marketing EMEA at Global Crossing highlights some important considerations to bear in mind.

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New research from the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr), sponsored by EMC, is the first of its kind to calculate the value of cloud computing adoption, at a macroeconomic level, to Europe’s five largest economies: UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. IP EXPO Bulletin spoke to Cebr’s managing economist, Oliver Hogan.

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What does the recent spate of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, triggered by the Wikileaks affair, tell us about the security of the cloud? Jessica Twentyman takes a look.

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Confused about cloud terminology? You’re not alone. Simon Hansford, vice president of service strategy at managed services provider Attenda, provides a handy breakdown of the three main models of cloud service delivery: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.

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Are companies taking too narrow a look at the benefits of cloud computing? In this article, Justin Pirie, director of communities and content at unified email management company Mimecast, argues that, while the cost benefits of cloud adoption are important, a comprehensive assessment takes a much wider view.

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We all know that cloud computing reveals a host of new challenges. Learn from Network Instruments how cloud computing is going to impact your network, how to prepare for it, and how to troubleshoot within the cloud environment.

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Britannic Technologies Strategic review of IP & Convergence 7th Annual Convergence Summit Review the exciting changes happening in the communications market place with the virtualisation of technology, centralisation of services and availability of Next Generation Networks. Learn how our managed service offerings and New World Communications model can simplify, standardise, centralise and greatly enhance your [...]

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Virtustream’s CTO, Julian Vox, explores the business benefits of Cloud Computing.

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Gary Collins, Co-Founder & CTO of Intercept TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE Intercept-IT prides itself on being a flexible service provider, housing real talent, and saving its clients millions of pounds each year. So when the UK-based Hosting Service Provider found itself having to compromise between either highly robust or a high performance [...]

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TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE Julian Box, CTO at Virtustream – This session looks at the shift towards pay-as-you-go computing models and examines their cost effectiveness and whether they can deliver the best value for money.

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TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE To date Unified Communications has been the preserve of the larger enterprise when in fact it is the smaller faster moving companies who stand to benefit from UC the most. In this session Andy Powell of ShoreTel & IBM will explain why Unified Communications is now totally accessible [...]

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TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE Bill Strain, CTO at iomart discusses what’s needed to deliver complex cloud solutions. Early Cloud offerings focused primarily on delivering large numbers of simple Virtual Machines, delivering modest performance, on a pay as you go model. Although this approach was ideal for customers with simple requirements who benefited [...]

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TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE Keith Sullivan, Corning Cable Systems – Considerations for parallel optics cabling in the data centre. Following several years of discussion and anticipation, the 40/100G Ethernet standard has been ratified by the IEEE in June 2010. While the standard is approved, end users must re-think their existing fibre infrastructure [...]

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TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE The transition to the modern virtualized data centre is reshaping the compute environment and placing new demands on the data centre network. Traditional complex and tiered network designs can no longer meet the real time demands of the dynamic and cloud based data centre. This requires a fundamental [...]

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Gordon Graylish, Vice President of Intel Corp. TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE With the Internet explosion set to continue, growth is envisioned to reach circa 2.5B connected people and more than 10B connected devices by 2015. This represents a significant opportunity for business and a potentially huge increase in content and online services. Cloud [...]

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TO VIEW THIS VIDEO PLEASE CLICK HERE Grant Tiller, RES Software, looks at how we might improve the user’s perception towards the IT department and the service they provide. As server virtualisation is becoming a commodity, desktop and application virtualisation are starting to gain traction – both technologies help provide a stable and reliable platform, [...]

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Cloud computing – it sounds so simple; the shift of computing power, applications, databases and storage to the internet. But in reality it is a nebulous, complex, ever-shifting concept and it’s no wonder that everyone from SMBs to giant corporations are still struggling with it.

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The resignation last week of its executive director Lee Williams has raised new concerns about the future of the Nokia-backed Symbian Foundation.

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Juniper Network’s Head of Enterprise Marketing EMEA explains how they has been advocating a New Network vision – that includes new technologies, partnerships, and even a venture fund to get tomorrow’s network innovations moving forward at a more rapid pace.

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In part 3 of this series of articles, tuscany network’s Technical Services Manager introduced the DNS Security Extensions and discussed some of the deployment challenges that exist. In this final part, he will discuss how monitoring can help identify a Kaminsky style attack what steps can be taken to guard against it.

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In part 2 of this series of articles, tuscany network’s Technical Services Manager explained what cache poisoning is and what the bug was that Dan Kaminsky found. In this part he will introduce the DNS Security Extensions and discuss some of the deployment challenges that exist.

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Guest blogger Ian Moulster of Microsoft’s Windows team offers some words of comfort to anyone struggling to come to grips with desktop virtualization.

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In this short video interview, Richard Blanford, Managing Director of Fordway Solutions discusses the optimised infrastructure proposition that Fordway will be explaining at IP EXPO this year.

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Charles Ferland of BLADE Network Technologies weighs up the alternatives for next generation data centre environments

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Social media fans may claim its days are numbered, but Mimecast’s content and communities director Justin Pirie says reports of email’s death are greatly exaggerated.

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