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 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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Statefull Inspection Swiss Cheese – What’s the Point of your Firewall?

Posted on October 20, 2009 by varidion

I’m sorry to tell you, its got more holes than a Swiss Cheese! Don’t be alarmed…..      most have.
Why?   They’re just simply out of date….
Basically today’s Web 2.0 applications have technology leapfrogged your security infrastructure, so while you diligently close ports and protocols these Net Generation applications choose another port, or better [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 – Can you afford not to be one?

Posted on October 19, 2009 by varidion

Time and time again CIOs and IT managers we speak to claim they believe that Social Networking and Web 2.0 applications deliver their business value but when further interrogated they cant quantify this.  But the amusing point is… they comment that their corporate security policy prevents access to these anyway, but they know the employee [...]

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Building a web 2.0 business

Posted on October 12, 2009 by varidion

How important is the new world for web 2.0 content to a new startup business? Give me a few years and I’ll let you know. David Macfarlane and Alex Ayers, the founding Directors of Varidion Limited have  are creating a Cloud Networking business based on the principals of Web2.0.  The venture will deliver [...]

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