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David Booth
When WANs "half fail"
Have your Internet or WAN links ever performed below the advertised specifications, but because of a lack of evidence and/or performance statistics, you were unable to prove it? Well, we recently faced such an issue and…
A Layman's Guide to Cloud Computing
The idea of cloud computing is not a new one. The concept has come and gone through various guises over the years. Consequently "the cloud" can mean many things to many people and this is why it can get very confusing…
Wireless Network Rollout for Retail Premises
In the past 9 months we have been involved in a project to roll out Wireless network infrastructure to a large retail chain. I thought I would share some of the technical aspects of the project to help anyone that may…
IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise
It has been over a year since IBM launched its public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Smart Cloud Enterprise (SCE) and over three months since PicNet moved its external facing applications to SCE. From this,…
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Windows 8 Preview
With the upcoming release of the Windows 8 "release preview" in June and the full release of Windows 8 rumoured to be set for October, I thought now would be a good time to have a look at the next iteration of…
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Organisational Resilience in Business Continuity
Following my previous blog post on Business Continuity, I would like to continue today on the same theme, but this time moving to the concept of resilience. Resilience in the context of Business Continuity can be…
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