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2023 Issues
October-November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Predictions for the new year are as plentiful as Amazon deliveries in December, and give us a sense of the challenges but also opportuinities that lie ahead in the coming months


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Endace EndaceProbe Cloud

Cloud computing has revolutionised business operations globally, but the ‘shared responsibility’ security model used by providers presents many challenges for SecOps and NetOps teams
July-August-September - Featuring
Editor's Comment: When will artificial intelligence become a reality for your business? According to a new report from AMD it might not be quite as soon as we think - or perhaps fear


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The ROI of Doing Nothing

The average data breach is estimated to cost $10 million but the personal cost to senior management can last a lifetime
April-May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Is the IT skills gap becoming a significant barrier to business and if so how can we bridge it? At a time when digital transformation plans are feeling the pinch from a range of factors that include the curreent economic climate...


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IT in 2023: security, cloud and more

Given the ever-changing trends in IT planning for the road ahead can prove difficult. However, anticipating new developments, both within your organisation and the wider industry...
January-February-March - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Anew survey from Equinix has underlined the challenge to the industry posed by the ongoing tech skills shortage, with UK IT employers having serious concerns about staff retention and recruitment.


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Shadow IT's clue to hybrid employee engagement

With the right for WFH set to become enshrined in UK employment law, employee experience management is now critical and businesses need to both understand and improve the quality of the hybrid working environment, insists Jason Barker, SVP EMEA & APAC, IR.


2022 Issues
October-November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Anew survey from Equinix has underlined the challenge to the industry posed by the ongoing tech skills shortage, with UK IT employers having serious concerns about staff retention and recruitment.


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Fast food networks

Ted Curtis, senior engineer at NETSCOUT, explains How faster networks could enhance food production
July-August-September - Featuring
Editor's Comment: At the time of writing significant areas of England and Wales are still experiencing a hosepipe ban and drought conditions, with no end and precious little rain in sight.


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WAN Acceleration or Edge Computing?

David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, on delivering higher WAN Performance
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April-May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: In January the UK Government unveiled its 'Cyber Security Strategy: 2022 to 2030', the first governmental strategy of its kind...


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Zero trust in hybrid and remote working

Hybrid and remote working have become a mega-trend. Kevin Peterson, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist, Xalient explores their security implications for today's enterprise.
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January-February-March - Featuring
Editor's Comment: In January the UK Government unveiled its 'Cyber Security Strategy: 2022 to 2030', the first governmental strategy of its kind...


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Gaining the Smart Edge

Sanjay Radia, Chief Solutions Architect at NETSCOUT explains how to improve cloud and network edge performance with Smart Edge Monitoring
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2021 Issues
October-November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As we go to print with this issue of Network Computing the Uk Government's Plan B measures have come into effect and all those who weren't already working from home are being urged to do so once again.


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The Network Computing Awards 2021

The Network Computing Awards made a welcome return to a non-virtual venue in central London in October. Discover more about our 2021 winners inside.
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July-August-September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:There's been very little need for a hosepipe ban in the UK this summer and now it seems that the country's water system is on the verge of being used in an altogether more innovative way.


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IoT at the edge

Peter Ruffley, CEO of Zizo, explains what edge computing will mean for the Internet of Things
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April-May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:At the time of going to the press the US fuel pipeline operated by Colonial Pipeline has been taken offline due to a ransomware attack by hacking group DarkSide.


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Data protection in a post-pandemic environment

Adam Strange, a Data Classification Specialist at Titus, identifies the key processes and technologies business must adopt in the wake of COVID-19
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January-February-March - Featuring
Editor's Comment: At the time of writing it's the 15th Data Privacy Day, and with so many of us now working from home during the pandemic it's never been more timely.


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Adding up the costs of a financial data breach

How can financial services organisations keep their confidential information secure to safeguard their data and reputation? Andrea Babbs, UK General Manager, VIPRE, explains.
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2020 Issues
September-October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:At the time of writing the 2020 Network Computing Award results have just been announced online.


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Managing the challenges and complexities of IT convergence

Sascha Giese, Head Geek at SolarWinds examines the convergence of IT roles in a continuously evolving I.T. landscape
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Network Computing has a somewhat different look this issue. With the entire team still remote working to bring the issue together it seemed appropriate to dedicate a significant part of it to all things WFH, with a particular emphasis on the role of cybersecurity in our 'new normal'...


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Supermicro: coming out from under the radar

Network Computing speaks to Supermicro CEO Charles Liang about how the company has perfected its 'one-stop' total solutions approach
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Febuary-March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:There is an awful lot of news to digest at the moment, but those of us based in the UK, especially if you are involved in the technology sector, cannot have failed to absorb some of the story around 5G and the participation of Huawei in the building of UK infrastructure.


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Infinigate UK signs distribution agreement with A10 Networks

Infinigate UK, a specialist IT security, cloud and Managed Service Provider (MSP) distributor, recently signed an agreement with A10 Networks to distribute its range of innovative...
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2019 Issues
November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Political and economic uncertainty, combined with the continuing lack of clarity concerning our relationship with the EU...


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Digital networking

Digital transformation requires a new networking approach. Pete Lumbis, Technical Evangelist at Cumulus Networks talks about applying web-scale networking principles to digital transformation
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September-October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Time moves on, business operations change, and the technology evolves...


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Securing visibility

Cobbled together security solutions do not work. Andrew Bushby, UK director at Fidelis Cybersecurity, says that a streamlined security stack can provide a more complete picture

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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:There has for some time been a trend for vendors to move away from point solutions...


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The people plan

Chris Bush, Head of Security at ObserveIT explains why putting people first is the best way to create an adaptive security plan that is fit for purpose

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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:It's hard to think of IT and networking as a fledgling industry, but in certain contexts, for example steel production, it is...


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Building AI foundations

While the potential for AI is compelling, it's important to plan and build it carefully. Nick Jewell, Director at Alteryx offers three building blocks for a successful AI future

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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As I watch IT and networking evolve, usually in bursts, sometimes to a successful next stage and sometimes to abject failure, I can't help but notice that it is all very linear and relies on extreme tunnel vision...


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Critical networks

Building networks fit for the future is a real challenge. Andreas R�sseler, CMO at R&M explains how to build, manage, and secure a critical communications broadband network

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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment:For some time now IT and Networking professionals have enjoyed a surfeit of choice when it comes to designing, managing, securing and serving their IT services...


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Defenestrating Windows

With an increasing number of servers and a rise in its linux implementations, Windows was becoming a limitation for bet365 in 2018

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2018 Issues
November-December- Featuring
Editor's Comment:There's a lot of IT about, and everyone you meet is keen to show off their prowess and impress you...


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Programmable Networking

Mission-critical solutions can't depend on network over provisioning. Rick Conklin, CTO at Dispersive Networks explains why split-session multipath architecture is the answer, improving security, reliability and performance

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September-October- Featuring
Editor's Comment:Blockchain, which is not necessarily anything to do with cryptocurrency (well at least not exclusively) is starting to get some recognition for the way that it could potentially provide an efficient, reliable...


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Blockchain takes off

blockchain's singular association with Bitcoin is being slowly dismantled. Thane Hall, Digital Trust Account Manager at Thales UK explains how Blockchain can radically improve the aerospace and defence supply chain

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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:We are quite well adjusted to the continual development of our world and its elements...
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The human element
Summarising his discussion with NC Editor Ray Smyth at this year's Infosecurity Europe, Simon McCalla of Nominet considers the importance of people in the IT mix
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:We are quite well adjusted to the continual development of our world and its elements...
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Currency minecraft
Is your network outsourced to mine cryptocurrency? IF so it will be costing you, and will not be without consequence...
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Mar-Apr - Featuring
Editor's Comment:We live in an uncertain world: of that there can be no doubt.
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The AI power challenge
Computing power of a suitable type and capacity is an essential first step in starting the AI journey. David hogan, Senior Director Enterprise at NVIDIA explains...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As with everything trends come and go - and IT and networking are no exception
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AI, your business and the IT infrastructure
AI seems well positioned to improve business process and operations, but can it also help to deliver better IT? Birger Lie...
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2017 Issues
Nov-Dec - Featuring
Editor's Comment:With so many media channels devoted to reporting the minutiae of the latest cyber incident, it is easy to forget the inevitability of risk.
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IoT at scale
The opportunity afforded by IoT is immense and diverse, but deployment needs some help. Nick Sacke, Head of IoT and Products at Comms365...
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Sept-Oct - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Like any industry, applied IT and its practitioners are inevitably influenced by the hype and trends that surround it...
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Network security disorder
In crypto security random numbers are critical. Richard Moulds, General Manager at Whitewood Security explains why a good random number is hard to find...
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:In thirteen years of being Editor of Network Computing, I have witnessed a lot of changes...
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Closing the detection gap
The real-time detection of cyberattackS is about to get serious - and it's not optional. Matt Walmsley, EMEA Director at Vectra Networks explores the issues...
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Digital Transformation is a term that until recently was rarely heard but now, as they say, is 'growing legs'...
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The IoT security stand-off
Those deploying IoT must be more demanding concerning security; but should IoT vendors be more responsible too? ...
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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: A recent speech made at the Usenix Enigma security conference by Dr Ian Levy, the Technical Director at the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, caused a bit of a kerfuffle...
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Lean wireless networks
Cloud-based Wi-Fi estate management is one way to deliver utility class wireless networks in the context of limited I.T. resources. Steve Johnson...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Considering my introduction to the final edition of Network Computing for 2016 ("Don't wait for change, cause it")...
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Line of DEMARCation
The UK government has adopted DMARC to protect UK Citizens. Patrick Peterson, Founder and Executive Chairman of Agari and a founding member OF DMARC...
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2016 Issues
Nov-Dec - Featuring
Editor's Comment:I am writing this introduction on a cold but sunny November day having just learned the outcome of the American Presidential Election....
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Monitoring the hybrid network
A hybrid cloud environment presents new risks to services and data. Rob Farmer, Senior Director at Ipswitch explains how network monitoring can help...
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Sept-Oct - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As the politicians of the UK and EU exchange banter and even plan for what seems to be the inevitable exit of the UK from the EU, life goes on.
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A cloud of uncertainty
Preparing for Brexit is fraught with problems. Nick Brackney, product marketer at ExtraHop explores the Brexit climate change challenge...
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Well, it happened. On the 23rd of June 2016, the United Kingdom, through a national referendum, voted to leave the EU. Already the Science and Research sector has spoke
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Hyper critical
Hyper-convergence is gaining traction. Sushant Rao, Director of Product and Solutions Marketing at DataCore considers its effect on storage infrastructure...
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: If there was one piece of advice I would offer to IT and networking professionals at this precise time, it would be these two things [sic]...
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Losing network control
IT teams fear losing control of business transactions, apps and infrastructure. Michael Hack, Senior VP at Ipswitch explores the challenge of controlling IT complexity...
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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: In the last issue of the magazine I suggested that IT and network professionals need to step up and take a leadership role in the use of IoT in their own organisation - but I didn't mention customers...
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The key to securing IoT data
CEO of Covata, Trent Telford, explains why key management is critical to securing the Internet of Things...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Just as the network perimeter has vanished, much the same has happened to the ownership of IT and the organisation�s network...
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Freedome for Business from F-Secure
Mobile devices present a major security challenge for businesses and yet it seems that their employees just can't do without them...
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2015 Issues
Nov-Dec - Featuring
Editor's Comment:With product announcements ranging from the trivial to the bizarre, the Editor distils the essence of those that are of interest to the Networking community...
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The Network Computing Masterclass series...
.� going beyond technology and product. This Network Management Masterclass series is in association with Paessler AG.
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Sept-Oct - Featuring
Editor's Comment: If, as it is suggested, IT technology is in some way to blame for a botched high profile football transfer, it once again illustrates the dependency organisations have placed upon the IT network ...
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The right move for web security
The UK's largest property website, Rightmove, explains how WhiteHat has helped them to improve and underpin...
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: At first reading I thought it was good news that IT spending is forecast by Gartner to reach $3.5 trillion during 2015...
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It's the data, stupid!
Salo Fajer, CTO at Digital Guardian explains why the most effective way to keep information secure must centre on protecting the data...
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Have you noticed that the subject of data is rapidly rising up through the noise level of IT discussions? Have you noticed people who (and I generalise) know nothing...
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Secure Apps, secure business
In order to fully secure business assets, Ade Foxall, CEO of Camwood believes that an upgrade in approach is...
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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As you may know, it is now thought that the so-called ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times" ...
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The silicon safety net
Sandboxing as a security technology is often overlooked. Andrew Avanessian, EVP of consultancy and technology services at Avecto, ...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Over 60% of UK SMEs expect their IT budget to increase in 2015, according to independent research by Cloud and Data Centre specialist, Node4...
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Big data, big security
When it comes to Big (unstructured) data, security is a process and not an objective. Guillermo Lafuente,...
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