Archive for September, 2007
A Series of Tubes #26 — Small business networking
September 27th, 2007Our feature topic this week is networking for small business which must be important these days because networking giant Cisco has got the SMB market squarely in the crosshairs. Cisco has previously tried to make headway in the small business sector by cutting prices on their entry-level enterprise kit, but this time the company is [...]
A Series of Tubes #25 — Cisco Networkers
September 22nd, 2007Apologies for the late posting, we had some technical difficulties putting the show together while on the road, then we got sick when we finally arrived back in the rainforest office, probably from over consumption at the Cisco Networkers conference in Brisbane. And that’s the theme of this week’s show with interviews from the floor [...]
A Series of Tubes #24 — Crystal Ball Gazing
September 12th, 2007This week’s show is quite a mixed bag because we spent a few days at the Media Connect Influence Forum in the Hunter Valley. It’s a rotten job but someone’s gotta do it. However, we didn’t spend the whole time playing, there were plenty of analysts and vendors offering their take on the future of [...]
A Series of Tubes #23 — Backing it up
September 6th, 2007Once upon a time all backups were stored on tape. Back then you could hardly afford the hard disks you needed for your data, never mind finding the additional funds for a duplicate set just to store the backups.
These days disks have huge capacity and they’re cheap as chips, so lots of companies are [...]