I had the opportunity this week to tour a purpose-built data centre this week, thanks to Equinix, which provides network-neutral data centre and interconnection services. The tour provided me with a fascinating insight to the thinking and planning needed for...

Gartner has just published a new report which predicts a bandwidth divide in the next three to five years between urban and rural areas, with those living in the countryside being left behind in the digital slow lane.This bandwidth divide...

A group of US researchers believe they can identify a company heading into trouble by analysing the pattern (not content) of email messages flowing throughout the organisation. According to a report in the New Scientist, Ben Collingsworth and Ronaldo Menezes...

Headlines surrounding the Digital Britain report have centred on a new tax to help rollout broadband and next generation networks in the UK; the government's buck-passing over illegal file-sharing to the ISPs, and that the BBC no longer has a...

Microsoft has just announced plans to open its own chain of retail stores, and even hired a former Wal-Mart veteran to run the retail operation. "The purpose of opening these stores is to create deeper engagement with consumers and continue...

Eight from one. No, it is not the name of a fictional character from Star Trek, but instead refers to an interesting demo I witnessed earlier this week from MiniFrame, which showed off its SoftXpand offering that allows for eight...

I will admit to enjoying the delicious sense of irony as I watched Nick Leeson, the trader who famously collapsed Barings Bank back in 1995, give a talk on 'risk management in the real world' at Burton Group's Cataylst Conference...

There has been a lot of talk recently regarding the cost of rolling out a NGN (next generation network) for the UK. Indeed, the British government has been calling for a while now for a national rollout of fibre....

The IT industry can at times be a pretty brutal place. No more so than in the complex atmosphere of IT management hiring and firings. The news of the removal of co-founder and CEO Diane Greene by VMware's board...

Do you want your Apple iPhone to look-and-feel like Windows Vista? No, neither did we. But now you can, thanks to a brand new iPhone theme that will make Apple's handset look-and-feel like a Vista-based device. It is hard...