Network software

Cisco acquires vCider

Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to boost its cloud strategy and SDN capabilities  News | 05 Oct 2012

Cisco appoints two new presidents

The appointment of new executives raises further questions as to when Cisco’s long-serving CEO, John Chambers, will step down  News | 05 Oct 2012

HP revamps portfolio for software-defined networking

Supplier claims additions will bring capabilities of software-defined networking to infrastructure, control software and application layers  News | 03 Oct 2012

Buro Happold adopts Polycom video conferencing

Engineering firm Buro Happold cut costs and travel time with video conferencing facilities using Polycom RMXs and Microsoft Lync  Case Study | 28 Sep 2012

BT and Yahoo block UK2 IP addresses

Customers of ISP UK2 have received no emails from Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for over a week after their IP addresses were blocked  broadband communications | 28 Sep 2012

Telefonica integrates AR into media platform

Telefonica Digital has partnered with augmented reality (AR) technology company, Aurasma, to broaden its range of AR media services  News | 21 Sep 2012

Buckinghamshire County Council awards PSN contract

Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) has signed a four-year deal with Updata for a public services network worth up to £100m  It services | 21 Sep 2012

WiGig wireless products due in 2013

WiGig, the wireless standard for linking devices over the 60GHz spectrum, should be product-compatible before the end of 2013  News | 13 Sep 2012

Cut network complexity with Ethernet fabrics and SDN, says Brocade

Brocade says abstraction layers, such as Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networking (SDN), can eliminate complexity from the network  Analysis | 12 Sep 2012

Everything Everywhere poised to launch UK 4G mobile network

Everything Everywhere – rebranded 'EE' – is set to launch high-speed 4G mobile networking in the UK with download speeds up to 40Mbps  News | 11 Sep 2012

BYOD policy gives London university users network access flexibility

A London university has undergone a network infrastructure upgrade to make way for a BYOD policy, offering staff and students more network access flexibility and capabilities.  Case study

Buyer's Guide: How to prepare your organisation for IPv6

The switch to IPv6 – on 6 June – shows just how imminent the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is. Is your organisation ready?  Feature

Forrester: The next wave of virtualisation

Virtualisation is evolving. IT departments now have a raft of products to deploy within their infrastructure, optimised for virtualisation.  Buyer's guide

Cisco Live Europe 2012 Coverage

If you didn’t have a chance to make it out to the London ExCeL Centre, for Cisco Live Europe, read our coverage of the conference.  Feature

Computer Weekly / TechTarget IT priorities survey 2012

Learn which IT priorities are at the top of UK IT managers lists for 2012. Coverage from across our network includes cloud, budget cuts, networking, security, disaster recovery and more.  IT priorities survey

Re-skilling through the Open University to get into IT

Ian Kelly, a 34-year-old IT specialist, is preparing to take the next step in his career, and turned to the Open University to improve his skills.  Feature

Flatter, faster, more manageable networks

As companies rely ever more on IT for enabling their business operations, networks have become the vital plumbing.  Network hardware

Case study: De Vere on cloud nine with Claranet’s managed application hosting & networks

A number of strategic acquisitions and brand mergers form what is today known as the De Vere Group. With acquisitions however, come a plethora of IT challenges – and De Vere was no exception. Jo Stanford, Group IT Director, commented: “Initial Style ...  Feature

Secure your SCADA architecture by separating networks

Many critical national infrastructure systems include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) functionality. These systems can be viewed as the set of software, computers and networks that provide remote co-ordination of controls systems for...  Feature

How to combat Stuxnet

ISSA’s Raj Samani suggests that within control system networks where only known applications run, a simple strategy to combat Stuxnet would be to allow only authorised executables to run and deny everything else.  Feature

Preparing your teams for software defined networking

Software defined networking may offer a more reliable and automated network, but administrators need to be prepared before they introduce it to their environment  Opinion

Forrester: Networking predictions for 2013

Senior Forrester analyst Andre Kindness reveals his predictions for the networking industry in 2013  Opinion

Forrester: Harnessing mobile UC to transform the business

The appeal of unified communications (UC) has been the convergence of all business communication applications across the range of enterprise interfaces, including the PC, telephone, web, and mobile  Opinion

Gartner: Investigations must be done carefully and correctly

Human activity is becoming increasingly virtualised. With routine communications and daily activities starting on workstations and taking place across enterprise networks and the internet, it is only to be expected that this is accompanied by a comme...  Opinion

Opinion: An asset with little value can be a big problem

I was recently part of a team that carried out a network and web application penetration test on the external network of a large UK company. Out...  Opinion

Patches encourage lax security processes

I have been in the network security game for over a decade and I am still amazed at the number of organisations that only think about their network security...  Opinion

Cloud computing faces security storm

A storm-front is brewing for cloud computing, writes Paul Zimski, vice-president of market strategy at Lumension. As developers continue to reach towards the sky with insecure infrastructure, the chances for a disastrous squall increase every day.  Opinion

Network security: get a complete view of your network

Network security: get a complete view of your network

By Ofir Arkin and Ray Binnion

What's on your network?

This is a simple question but...

Infosecurity 2008 - Taking security into your own hands

Fingerprint biometrics is emerging as the authentication method of choice for access to enterprise data, applications and networks, writes Jim Fulton, vice-president of DigitalPersona.  Opinion

Tackling the network eavesdropping risk

Why do network security problems persist? While wireless network security issues continue to make current headlines, attention has been drawn away from the fact that wired networks are often affected by many of the same weaknesses. As a result, our v...  Opinion

Video: No desk, no office - Microsoft experiments with future of work

Microsoft is using its Dutch headquarters as part of a radical experiment that the company believes could demonstrate the future of the workplace.  Video

Interviews from the Get Ahead 08 event

ComputerWeekly went along to the Get Ahead 2008 event and spoke to speakers from Star Internet, Microsoft and Armstrong Communications about their presentations.  Video

Podcast: Gartner - Steve Prentice on IT in the economic downturn

Gartner fellow Steve Prentice talks to Computer Weekly's Ian Grant at the Gartner Symposium / IT Xpo in Cannes, November 2008. Steve discusses what to do when times are hard, from where to cut costs, to where to spend.  Podcast

Beating the threat of spam – a ComputerWeekly podcast

Ever since the first spam email message was sent back in 1978 to 393 recipients on Arpanet, unsolicited email messages have been causing a headache for IT managers. Dealing with the constant influx of spam costs not only money but time as well.  Podcast

Supplier profile: Cisco

In this Cisco supplier profile you will find news, tips and research on the vendor.  guide

London 2012 Olympic Games Coverage

Read all our London Olympics IT coverage so far including IT preparations, the website, power concerns and the creation of thousands of new jobs.  guide

The network administrators’ guide

In our network administrator tutorial, learn about network security and network management.  guide

Cisco acquires vCider

Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to boost its cloud strategy and SDN capabilities  News

Cisco appoints two new presidents

The appointment of new executives raises further questions as to when Cisco’s long-serving CEO, John Chambers, will step down  News

HP revamps portfolio for software-defined networking

Supplier claims additions will bring capabilities of software-defined networking to infrastructure, control software and application layers  News

Buro Happold adopts Polycom video conferencing

Engineering firm Buro Happold cut costs and travel time with video conferencing facilities using Polycom RMXs and Microsoft Lync  Case Study

BT and Yahoo block UK2 IP addresses

Customers of ISP UK2 have received no emails from Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for over a week after their IP addresses were blocked  broadband communications

Telefonica integrates AR into media platform

Telefonica Digital has partnered with augmented reality (AR) technology company, Aurasma, to broaden its range of AR media services  News

Buckinghamshire County Council awards PSN contract

Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) has signed a four-year deal with Updata for a public services network worth up to £100m  It services

WiGig wireless products due in 2013

WiGig, the wireless standard for linking devices over the 60GHz spectrum, should be product-compatible before the end of 2013  News

Cut network complexity with Ethernet fabrics and SDN, says Brocade

Brocade says abstraction layers, such as Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networking (SDN), can eliminate complexity from the network  Analysis

Everything Everywhere poised to launch UK 4G mobile network

Everything Everywhere – rebranded 'EE' – is set to launch high-speed 4G mobile networking in the UK with download speeds up to 40Mbps  News