Is the current buzzword "SD-WAN" really new, or is it actually a progression of the WAN technologies we all know and love? Is it going to be a revolution or…
GTT completes Hibernia Networks acquisition
GTT have completed their acquisition of Hibernia Networks. This deal was announced last year, for $590mn. The acquisition delivers the following assets: Five subsea cables, including Hibernia Express, the lowest…
Amazon carry lots of Snowballs in their SnowMobile
Amazon have a service called AWS Snowball, but if you're importing a large dataset into the cloud, 80TB might simply not be enough. So now you can upgrade your transfers…
Raspberry Pi – New Zero calorie option
The Raspberry Pi organisation has launched a new board. This is the Raspberry Pi Zero, an upgrade/replacement for the Model A board. The most significant change is the price, $5…
RESTful Server Management with some Redfish
Managing servers is hard enough. Doing it with a rack of servers is more difficult. Maintaining a data centre full of servers can provide a significant challenge. There are lots…
Three Bottlenecks of WAN – Bandwidth, Latency and Cost
There are three bottlenecks to Wide Area Networks (WANs) that don't exist in other environments, and these are Bandwidth, Latency and Cost. (And in true three pronged problem fashion, you…
The Great British Internet Filter – how to protect children from the “bad” parts of the Internet
Yesterday David Cameron, Prime Minister, made a speech about making the internet safer for children by cracking down on online pornography. Let's look at what he said about an Internet…
RIP: Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse
They're starting to become rarer, but for many of us, the thing next to our keyboard is still a major part of our lives in front of a computer. I'm…