Industry Insight

Flexible working for all: breaking down the corporate class system

Industry Insight — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:17:49 GMT

We’ve all experienced the shackles of a “traditional” nine to five working culture - having to take annual leave to visit the GP because it’s not open out of hours, queuing around the block for the bank during lunch...

WebRTC: Telecom's Demise or its Saviour?

Industry Insight — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:13 GMT

There was once a time when browsing the web meant looking at text and pictures. Today the web is about a full multimedia experience. Your browser can easily act as a television, radio, or gaming device. Curiously though, the web...

When virtualisation attacks...

Industry Insight — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:31:32 GMT

We’re told that virtualisation is a key to business and IT success - creating cost savings and boosting the productivity of data centres. Virtualisation has challenged the concept of what a server is - or where it is at any...

Winning the Internet capacity challenge

Industry Insight — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:30:16 GMT

2012 was a big year for Europe - the eyes of the world were fixated on the continent as a number of high-profile events dominated the headlines. Internet infrastructure was adapted to meet the demands, but what happened once the...

Agile software development - get back to basics to make it work

Industry Insight — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:41:16 GMT

For some years, Agile methodologies have been widely adopted within the information technology software world to bring new products and services to market quickly and efficiently, increasingly taking over from more traditional approaches such as ‘waterfall’. While it may have...

Software Defined Everything: changing the network into an epicenter

Industry Insight — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:27:00 GMT

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a hot, much debated topic and although still in its infancy, it offers the potential to transform how complex networks work. But don’t be fooled into thinking it’s only yet more industry hype, the era of...

No matter how big it gets, data still demands management and quality checks

Industry Insight — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:37:11 GMT

Change is the only constant in today’s business environment. Whether you’re growing your business, entering new markets or undergoing a merger or acquisition, your business - and its data - is evolving and expanding.Proper data quality management ensures improved customer...

Internet of Things - Forging a path to profitability

Industry Insight — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:13:10 GMT

Over the past several months we’ve seen a veritable flash flood of hype around the Internet of Things, driven largely in my opinion by a “cow looking over the fence” mindset where people are asking, “what’s that shiny thing over...

The impact of consumerisation on business applications

Industry Insight — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:56:30 GMT

For the past five years, developers in the highly competitive consumer market have paved the way in design and innovation, offering users mobile applications which combine inventiveness with ease of use and practicality. The real proof of developers' accomplishments can...

Legal traps for software developers

Industry Insight — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:52:53 GMT

The recent case of Usedsoft v Oracle is important for software developers, who may as a consequence no longer be able to restrict their customers from selling their software on to a third party as “used software”. The market for...

Migrating to a data centre without downtime - Part 1: Planning

Industry Insight — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:37:38 GMT

Migrating between data centres, or even from your office into a data centre for the first time, is a complex process that is often left to the last minute and not thoroughly planned. In the first of a short series...

Becoming a digital nation: young people hold the key to Britain's skills gap

Industry Insight — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:13:41 GMT

Earlier this week, the National Audit Office highlighted a gap in the number of digitally skilled experts needed to tackle the UK’s fight against cyber crime, suggesting it could take up to 20 years to address the deficit. Whilst it’s...

Driving engagement and a social business: it's child's play with gamification

Industry Insight — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:13 GMT

Many workers don’t have much fun at work. According to Gallup, over 70 percent of employees are disengaged at work. This costs billions of pounds in lost productivity, poor performance, and poor service to their customers. But there is a...

Software: the legal do's and don'ts

Industry Insight — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:46:06 GMT

Information technology and intellectual property lawyer Dr Michael Servian of Freeth Cartwright’s Stoke on Trent office shares his expertise when it comes to legal matters relating to software.There isn’t a business around today that doesn’t use software in form or...

2012: A forensic perspective

Industry Insight — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:25:59 GMT

Over the past year there have been an increasing number of high profile incidents ranging from cyber espionage, data breaches, data theft and targeted malware attacks, where companies from across the globe have been forced to call in teams of...

Connected machines and intelligent networks will drive the enterprise in 2013

Industry Insight — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:08:00 GMT

In 2013, we’ll see an even greater adoption of advanced technology than ever before, as businesses seek to meet changing market demands, whilst increasing productivity and creating better experiences for their customers. With this in mind, here are the five top...

Innovation bottleneck: The database

Industry Insight — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:00:00 GMT

2012 marked the beginning of a fundamental shift in the responsibilities of the CIO. As Gartner analyst Mark McDonald recently wrote on his blog, after years of delivering ‘more for less’, CIOs began to refocus on delivering growth through innovation...

Back-end integration: the lynchpin for enterprise mobility

Industry Insight — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:35:01 GMT

Enterprise mobile apps rely on integration to back-end systems for much of their power. Just think about all the information that apps get from established systems of record.If your sales people are using a smart phone app to quote prices...

Five top tips for the journey to cloud

Industry Insight — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:30:00 GMT

A comparison between enterprise IT and public cloud computing dramatically highlights the benefits of moving to cloud.Application deployment times can shrink from weeks in the traditional data centre to minutes in a cloud data centre; new application development time accelerates...

How to address problems with externally stored data - Part 2

Industry Insight — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT

In a follow up to part 1, David Barker, founder and technical director at green colocation and connectivity supplier, 4D Data Centres, explains how to access externally stored data and how to deal with the most common issue when accessing...

How to address problems with externally stored data - Part 1

Industry Insight — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:39:00 GMT

In a two-part article, David Barker, founder and technical director at green colocation and connectivity supplier, 4D Data Centres, discusses the different types of external storage and how best to decide which one you should be using for your critical...

Extending test automation to mobile apps

Industry Insight — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:30:00 GMT

Mobile devices are continuing to gain momentum at increasing speed and if enterprises don’t keep up they’re at risk of losing the race. IT managers are faced with the choice to either jump on board or delay mobile adoption, but...

Proactive or reactive - Should that be the question?

Industry Insight — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:30:00 GMT

Avecto examines the difference between proactive and reactive digital forensics and explains their contribution in the fight against malware and malicious activityFor a number of years digital forensics has referred to ‘the application of computer investigation and analysis techniques to...

Protecting and recovering business-critical information in the Big Data era

Industry Insight — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Protection of data, especially ‘Big Data,’ seems to be affecting every large organisation globally. According to the latest figures from IDC, businesses are having to deal with 50 percent more data year-on-year. To make matters worse, outdated technologies such as...

Five tips for CIOs moving to the cloud

Industry Insight — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:30:07 GMT

CIOs making strategic moves to the cloud that involve core infrastructure such as productivity tools, enterprise applications or collaboration capabilities need to be prepared for a new way of thinking and operating. Moving to the cloud isn’t - and shouldn’t...