The Super Bowl happened Sunday, February 3.

This week, employees everywhere will be sharing some of the famous (and infamous) Super Bowl adverts. From Volkswagen's 'The Force' to Old Spice's 'The Man Your Man Could Smell Like', Super Bowl adverts were designed to be shared.

From an IT perspective, all...

The US presidential election night was a whopper by most measurements, especially where media network traffic was concerned. Foxnews.com delivered 3,039,989 video streams to the public, and Twitter's website hit a peak of 327,453 tweets a minute the moment the race was called.

Whilst Obama and Romney battled it...

This will be a 2-part blog considering the role of tech within small businesses.

This week, we'll focus on the importance of having the right tools to monitor network activity, and the effect this has on the business.

Next week, we'll consider the roles of BYOD and cloud...

European CIOs are shunning the benefits of social media for business. I am concerned that as a result, CIOs risk alienating customers, creating ineffective marketing strategies, demotivating staff and eliminating their competitive edge by not embracing social media.

A recent study indicated that 67% of European CIOs and...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) describes the recent trend of employees bringing personally-owned mobile devices to their place of work, and using those devices to access privileged company resources such as email, file servers, and databases.

BYOD can be dangerous. Very dangerous. To start with, you have the common security...

Just as consumers have seen widespread problems when using new data-intensive applications on smartphones, the same problem is also impacting the business world as corporate networks struggle to cope with new demands.

Driven by the increasing proliferation of bandwidth intensive applications such as unified communication, video conferencing and collaboration...

'On a scale of one to 10...' is a classic prompt that has been used to measure just about everything: emotions, the success of a new film or employee performance during reviews. And why not? The scale is concise. It's simple and succinct. It can capture complex data from a...

The Olympics are coming. In the same way that the city of London is building new roads to handle increased traffic, companies must ready their networks to support the increased flow of applications.

The story is simple: during major global events, traffic flows across networks increase...