File Sharing – Not Just a Geek Problem

Posted on December 5, 2009 by varidion

An alarming trend has been indentified by our Partner, Palo Alto Networks, in their Applications Usage and Risks Report:  browser based file sharing has overtaken the use of client specific Peer 2 Peer applications for the first time.
So what?
Well its simple, if today you detect and remove the use of file-sharing software within your business [...]

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The Cloud is Very Very Wooly…..

Posted on November 5, 2009 by varidion

It’s all Cloud, SaaS, Cloud, SaaS…
But to someone who has always started  a topology workshop by drawing a “Welsh Lover ” in the middle of the whiteboard when discussing ICT architecture with customers it’s not a surprise.  What’s is a surprise, is the way the “The Cloud” is being used by every provider, be they Network, Application [...]

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Move your Data to the Network, Not your Network to the Data

Posted on November 2, 2009 by varidion

The Enterprise CIO now understands the value of new world Cloud based applications, so why are they still installing old world network topologies to deliver these?  As many companies start to build their own Cloud infrastructures they are hindered by low speed and high latency environments that can not meet the demands of today’s high [...]

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What do Virtualised Servers of the future look like……

Posted on October 26, 2009 by varidion

….not a Server.
Well not a server as a CIO knows of it today, not even a blade, the cutting edge of servers as they currently see it…
Our view at Varidion is the world of virtualisation is about to collide head-on with the world of networking as the applications of tomorrow will be run directly on [...]

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Banning access to Social Networking from the corporate network is futile

Posted on October 22, 2009 by varidion

Monday at Gartner Symposium in Florida, Carol Rozwell, of Gartner gave some wise words:
“Banning access to social media from the corporate network is futile.”
Carol is correct, we can’t stop social networking, you only have to look at the largest firewall installed, China!   They have failed to manage the flow of incoming information via Web 2.0 [...]

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What came first Tar or Ethernet?

Posted on October 21, 2009 by varidion

Clearly Tarmacadam.     It has a few years on Ethernet.  The first Tar road was laid in Bagdad circa 8th Centaury AD, a few years before Robert Metcalf and David Boggs published their paper in 1973 outlining a successful Multipoint shared Network running locally at 3Mbp/s.  40 years later, Ethernet Networks are delivering 10Gbp/s [...]

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