data networks corporate in comment and analysis

IT must be called to account over emissions

Comment Nowhere is this apparent break-down in communications between the corporate board and IT management more evident than in the data centre, where 55 per cent of managers did not even know how much the data centre electricity bill was. [07 Apr 2008]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

Comment Identity theft and sloppy data management are a significant and steadily growing problem. Who can you trust with your personal data? There is the regular loss of confidential personal data by large companies and government agencies, such as HMRC... [27 Feb 2008]

Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks

Comment Experts are forecasting an important role in the enterprise for new media data applications. P&G's Heltsley thinks good things will emerge from the present confusing picture surrounding new media data applications. [19 Feb 2008]

Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier

Comment Audio, image data types, internet telephony and video present new challenges for CIOs responsible for corporate performance, security and productivity. In the same way, media has become as mission-critical as legacy text and numerical data that has... [29 Nov 2007]

Network horror stories expose need for understanding

Comment As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Or what about the employee who, over the course of a few weeks transferred huge chunks of data from the corporate network to a... [12 Apr 2007]

Leader: Why we keep our eye on the iPod

Leader As the device has proved, there's no longer such a clear defining line between enterprise and consumer hardware.iPods are regularly turning up in offices and finding their way onto corporate networks, as sys admins will testify, along with any... [11 Apr 2007]

The dos and don'ts of VoIP security

Comment Learn about the most dangerous threats, dos and don'ts and special advice for how SMEs can protect their VoIP networks. This helps protect the voice service if there is a denial of service attack on the data network. [04 Apr 2007]

Do you know what's happening on your network?

Comment The ability to move 80GB of data in one fell swoop should be a concern for any business, yet such devices plug in to networks on a daily basis. Corporate networks have become vast and complex beasts on which staff waste time and criminal activity... [28 Mar 2007]

Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace

Comment And it's not just the individual at risk - criminals are also targeting corporate networks on a regular basis, attempting to steal information, usually financial and personal data, held on customer databases. [07 Mar 2007]

The killer app for M2M

Comment M2M is used to harness the power of networks in simple machine-to-machine monitoring tasks, without any human interface. Zigbee promises to create 'smart' offices where every object or device has a Zigbee chip built-in that allows it to report its... [22 Feb 2007]

10 mobile trends: Should you care?

Comment The technological impact of mobile TV is likely to be minimal therefore for most organisations - although questions of productivity and appropriate use of data bundles may yet cause CIOs to take a second look at their usage policies for corporate... [09 Feb 2007]

So what is convergence anyway?

Comment Devices, networks, services, voice, data, media, entertainment - convergence can refer to any one of these areas and is so often used its meaning can be lost. Seventy-one per cent recognise it as the delivery of voice, video and data across all... [07 Dec 2006]

Best practice: Making life easier for business travellers

Comment IT directors must also protect the data on corporate mobile devices by enforcing PIN codes and passwords. The danger here is not just placing bad data or viruses on the corporate network but also removing sensitive data by downloading it to a USB... [14 Jun 2006]

VoIP: Don't forget about security

Comment We are at the same stage with VoIP today as we were with corporate data networks 15 years ago, when some companies decided not to connect to the internet for security reasons, according to nCircle's Murray. [09 Aug 2005]

BT's new trick: 21CN

Comment Indeed, BT has a range of corporate VoIP products from IP Centrex to converged voice and data IP/VPNs that are winning multi-million pound contracts. Daryl Dunbar, head of 21CN customer solutions at BT Wholesale, admits it will cost up to £10bn to... [07 Feb 2005]

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