The changing role of ICANN
by James Hickman 09.06.14. Back in 1991, Al Gore described the US National Research Network with the phrase ‘Information Super Highway’, fast-forward to 1998 and the commercial Internet had inherited...
View ArticleBig Data
by James Hickman 7 July 2014. When the Apollo 11 spacecraft headed to the Moon, the guidance computer on it could handle an amazing 8 tasks at once inside the 2KB of memory and the massive 32KB of...
View ArticleSafe distances for your datacentres
by James Hickman, September 2014: So you are putting your Business Continuity plan together and you decide you need two datacentres. How far apart do they need to be? Well, doesn’t the FSA suggest...
View ArticleThe world’s a big place – get your data to the miles
The world is a pretty big place. You’ll find this out when you try to get a circuit from say London to Hong Kong – that’s about 6000 miles. Luckily, a number of cable systems already exist around the...
View ArticleTechnologists don’t always see the things we create in the same way other...
Dec 2014, James Hickman, Our Marketing Director bounded up to me one day all full of excitement at the prospect of using the new-fangled 3D printing to produce some giveaways as part of a campaign she...
View ArticleA technology driven world still needs a driver
Feb 2015, James Hickman Facebook, Tinder, Instagram, AOL Instant Messenger and Hipchat were down for a bit on the 27th January. For the 40 minutes the sites were down. With around 1.35 billion users...
View ArticleTrue agility doesn’t come from the cloud, true agility comes from the network
March 2015, James Hickman Throughout the channel, vendors and resellers are using three commandments as the holy-grail to customer cloud adoption. Performance, Security and Agility. These underpin...
View ArticleA Perfect 10
July 2015, James Hickman Anybody with a recent version of Windows (and that’s most of us) will have seen an odd little white symbol appear on their taskbar that looks like a slice of Battenberg cake,...
View ArticleHow Secure are you?
October 2015, James Hickman I was on stage at a Gartner event recently and posed the question that would cause most IT managers to pause for thought. It was a simple question. The difficult ones...
View ArticleBits in Space
January 2016, James Hickman As Tim Peake is settled into life at the International Space Station, I got to wondering about all the home comforts an astronaut must leave behind when they are off to live...
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