data networks network infrastructure in comment and analysis
RSS data networks network infrastructure in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment Many of the biggest names to have emerged in email security have now been acquired by the big IT infrastructure vendors. Nearly all the products from content-filtering companies deal with data moving across networks - apart from some email... [02 May 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment She says media is forcing P&G to reinvent its IT infrastructure even though it is still wrestling with the business case. Experts are forecasting an important role in the enterprise for new media data applications. [19 Feb 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment But it's also a useful way to build up a longer-term picture of how an infrastructure's operational requirements are evolving - and what must be done to meet them. If you're just monitoring what's going on in the network then you could just go... [10 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment When the CIO is going to the CEO talking about infrastructure and collaboration," says Chambers, "it won't be about text - it will be video. But like their counterparts in the broadcast industry, IT leaders will need to cushion the chaotic... [29 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment SaaS means the infrastructure is provided and managed by the software vendor itself, housed by those same co-location providers and accessed over the internet. But how do you optimise performance over a public infrastructure where control is... [02 Nov 2007]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment This helps protect the voice service if there is a denial of service attack on the data network. This means all enterprises need to ensure their VoIP infrastructure is protected, though this needn't be an onerous undertaking. [04 Apr 2007]
Opinion: Ofcom reins in VoIP and NGNs
Comment In practice, this looks like creating a two-tiered market, as large VoIP providers, supported by their own IP network infrastructure, are able to deliver the full suite of regulatory obligations and compete head-to-head with traditional voice... [14 Mar 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G disappointments
Comment The infrastructure investment has been vast and rapid, at about twice the rate of 2G. And they share data - but not over the 2.5 or 3G networks. Despite all of this, and the 3G license fiasco, 3G networks gradually have become a reality. [04 Nov 2005]
Opinion: It's all about 'right-sourcing'
Comment ABN Amro also employs IBM Global Services to cover IT infrastructure (which is often difficult to offshore) while Patni in India and Accenture have 'preferred vendor' status for application development. [31 Oct 2005]
VoIP: Don't forget about security
Comment At the infrastructure level, for example, logically partitioning voice traffic into a VLAN is a good way to help protect it from attacks that may take place over the data network. To secure the network, Hancock puts access controllers in his... [09 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: BT strikes out with 21CN
Comment The company will almost certainly achieve a stranglehold on the country's communications infrastructure. BT's plans for an all-IP communications network are bold but also riddled with challenges and uncertainties, says Martin Brampton. [01 Mar 2005]
Call centres lag behind on IP adoption
Comment IP is also an obvious choice for greenfield sites as companies can design their data network from scratch to handle multimedia traffic. Network provisioning costs have also been halved at our new Stockton site as we only need one set of wiring and... [01 Feb 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Security for SMBs
Comment Why then are they failing to protect their IT infrastructure and the valuable data and information stored within? You can read about other steps SMBs could be taking to secure IT infrastructure in the Quocirca report, Protecting the IT and Data... [28 Jan 2005]
VoIP: Has the dream of convergence failed?
Comment Generally our customers are looking to upgrade their data networks anyway, so it's pragmatic to run them both over the same LAN and get the benefits of IP within a converged infrastructure. So there's a perception, justified or not, that phones... [21 Jan 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Who's to blame for IT failures?
Comment Soon after I wrote last week's column about infrastructure, the systems at the Department for Work and Pensions apparently fell apart. Rapid strides in networking technology made this ever more feasible than previously, especially combined with... [30 Nov 2004]
