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Pushing through Glass Ceilings at the SDN World Congress 2016

Live from the SDN World Congress Show in The Hague, Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, OneAccess Networks, reflects on the industry challenges steering the dialogue at this year’s conference.

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A week in the life of a network IT consultant

How does a network IT consultant overcome the various network troubleshooting challenges of an average working week? Tim Widdershoven, Global Marketing Manager from IDEAL Networks explains.

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Employing network fabrics for lower latency

By William O’Connell, Data Centre Sales Manager, Europe CommScope.

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What would it be worth to your business to get your business data 10 times as fast?

According to research by IBM, 40 zettabytes of big data will be created by 2020: that’s at least 300 times more data than was created in 2005. This article will examine how organisations can make big data work quicker for their business than their competitors.By Graham Jarvis.

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Thick & Thin: A Taxonomy of CPEs

By Pravin Mirchandani, Chief Marketing Officer, One Access.

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Mobile technology in Factories: A Moveable Feast

With mainstream society being dominated by mobile technology, Rob Dinsmore, industrial IT sales manager at SolutionsPT, looks at how manufacturing has adopted mobility and the benefits it can bring. Recently listed as the most important emerging technology by manufacturing CEOs, the article will look at the latest developments and what major challenges those looking to implement it may face. Whilst plenty of appetite clearly exists for the technology, for some implementation remains a challenge, so we outline the key steps manufacturers must follow to effectively utilise mobility on the factory floor.

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Demystifying the migration to 10G

By Tris Simmons, director, global product marketing, NETGEAR.

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Successfully deploying edge networks

By Dr. Thomas Wellinger, Market Manager Data Centre R&M.

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Creating a mobile strategy for your field services organisation

By Kevin Summers, Senior Director Mobile Strategy, Mitel.

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Key takeaways from Cisco Live

By Monica Brink, EMEA Marketing Director, iland.

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How to manage your network (and stop your network managing you)

By Angus Flett, Head of Portfolio – Connectivity at Vodafone.

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Looking at the changing network and more technology trends to look out for in 2016

While the last 10 years have seen network functions consolidated into a single physical appliance, the move from the physical to the virtual world is now producing the opposite effect that will accelerate further in 2016, according to KEMP Technologies.  This decomposition of the network will see more network functions migrate back to their constituent parts and this trend to network function virtualization will increasingly change the way networks are designed.

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Videos

Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Dr. J Metz, Chair SNIA Board of Directors and Scott Shadley, Chair SNIA Communications Steering Committee, discuss the association’s plans for the coming year, which include work on SDXI, computational storage, DNA data storage, SNIA Swordfish™, SNIA Emerald™ and sustainability. They also provide some fascinating insight into how they see the industry developing over time.
Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.
Gerard Thibault, CTO at Kao Data, reflects on his electrical engineering career, with 40+ years spent in the data centre sector. He provides both valuable and fascinating insights into how the data centre industry has, and has not, changed over time and remains optimistic that today’s twin objectives of digitalisation and sustainability will remain compatible.

News

The European Space Agency (ESA), an intergovernmental organisation shaping Europe’s space capability, is working with data management experts NetApp to help store the vast amount of data collected today and over the past 30 years of space exploration. The data stored comes from the ESA’s solar system missions and from the ESA’s fleet of cosmic observers.
Programme offers channel partners strong revenue potential, significant growth opportunities, and industry-leading resources and tools.
CP Automation teams up with Janitza to provide residual current monitoring.
Consolidation of technology to reduce the burden on IT, save money, and ultimately find new ways to better support customers, among the key findings in the survey.