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Putting SDN in its rightful place

The world is changing - but not because of Software Defined Networking, according to Scott Strickland of IBM

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SMEs and the Metro Cloud

Chris Champion at Infinera explains the opportunities of the Metro Cloud - and why the SME is finally getting noticed

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Intelligence at the edge

Gary Marks from Opengear considers how the network edge is evolving with the rise of IoT and centralised computing

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News

Are IT managers confident in their disaster recovery plans?

New survey reveals scale of mistrust in disaster recovery plans within organisations

Wick Hill gains recently launched Government Cyber Essentials certification

The Cyber Essentials Scheme is part of the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy

Security fears holding back cloud adoption, says Federation of Small Businesses

“There remains a great deal of concern that sensitive data may not be secure or the service not reliable.”


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Reviews

Cyberoam CR10iNG Unified Threat Management appliance

Cyberoam's CR10iNG is redefining the benchmark for value in the small business security appliance market

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Netwrix Auditor 6.5

Latest release of Auditor is one of the most comprehensive change and configuration auditing solutions on the market

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Opinion

Your job has reach

Author and think tank consultant Warren Zabloudil explains how IT professionals influence profitability

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Big Data, big security

Guillermo Lafuente at MWR InfoSecurity explains why, when it comes to Big Data, security is a process, not an objective

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Masterclasses

Hardware and SDN - a perfect match?

Emulex explores the role of hardware in our increasingly software-defined world

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Monitoring the unexpected

Paessler AG looks at monitoring some of the less obvious enterprise applications

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Events

CeBIT 2015: 16-20th March, Hannover, Germany

In five weeks the gates will open on the world’s leading trade fair for IT and the digital economy: CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. CeBIT 2015 will feature an unprecedented lineup of topical themes and compelling speakers.

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Cloud Expo Europe and Data Centre World: ExCeL London on 11th - 12th March

In 2014 Cloud Expo Europe, co-located with Data Centre World for the first time, attracted a total attendance of 12,188 senior decision makers.

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Network Computing Awards 2015 – Vote now!

Voting is now well underway for the 2015 Network Computing Awards. You have until 10th March to cast your votes to determine the ultimate winners of this year’s awards, which will be presented at an evening ceremony at the Hotel Russell, London on 19th March. Click Here to make your selections

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Welcome to the February 2015 Newsletter.

It’s all systems go here for the 2015 Network Computing Awards, which are now just four weeks away. You’ll find a link to the voting page in the events section of this issue, so be sure to visit and cast your votes to determine this year’s winners. The 2015 awards are shaping up to be our biggest and best yet, with thousands of votes already cast so far. Voting closes on 10th March with the awards ceremony being held on 19th March, so there’s still plenty of time to get involved in both!

Elsewhere this issue we have two articles on Software Defined Networking. Emulex poses the question, “If software-defined architectures are so important then why do we still need hardware?” The answer, as they like to say on certain clickbait websites, may surprise you! For Scott Strickland of IBM SDN Global Sales and Business Development, SDN is not the game-changing technology that it’s sometimes portrayed to be but rather a “functional component” of cloud computing - the technology that is truly changing the world.

The cloud is also having an impact on a more localised level too with the emergence of the Metro Cloud, which has the potential to bring the benefits of the data centre to the doorsteps (virtually speaking) of SMEs. Read Chris Champion’s article in this issue for more.

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