This facility is hugely attractive, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, or branch offices of large companies. BT remains tied to expensive, over-engineered solutions and premium pricing, still protecting its revenue from leased lines.
Accounts can even be opened at a nearby 'duty free' branch of Dixons. But while hotspot operators such as BT Openzone and Megabeam, recently bought by Swisscom, are trying to reach as many high-value locations as possible, there has been some...
This enables Cisco to offer a network-enabled solution that spans customer requirements from the branch to the data centre," said Luca Cafiero, senior vice president and general manager of the Data Center, Switching, Storage and Wireless...
There are many ways to keep that data safe, but branch office -- or other forms of distributed office -- Disaster Recovery (DR) can lead to some interesting problems. Firstly, while tape is a form of DR that can be used for branch operations, keep...
In focusing on trying to handle classes of problems like that, we want to take people issues first, define it and then get a technology answer toward mitigating classes of problems. When you're protecting your own network, what kind of products do...
Assume every location is a branch, assume every point-of-access is hostile. Speaking at the Citrix iForum in Edinburgh, Templeton said companies must be prepared to meet the challenges of consolidation, disruption, globalisation, regulation and the...