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  • More From The Gherkin

    Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 22 Oct 2019
  • More Gherkin And IT As A Business Strategy - Back at the Gherkin event, two of the primary vendors who were present for the discussions actually substantiated the previous blog comments about ...

  • Different Clouds Don't Like To Cluster...

    Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 22 Oct 2019
  • Had another interesting cloudy discussion last week with SIOS – one of ITs better kept secrets, certainly in the UK. Much of that is down to the sensitivity of what it does and who it does it for. ...

  • Secure Bacon Butties With Gherkin But No Gherkins

    Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 22 Oct 2019
  • Had my first visit to The Gherkin recently at a “mini” Netevents security briefing in London. I can certainly recommend the brioche-bun bacon butties with a view of the London rain from the 38th ...

  • Getting A Foot In The Door In Europe

    Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 21 Aug 2019
  • Had some very interesting conversations in the past few weeks with a number of US-based vendors across primarily the security and optimisation sectors, with one commonality - established in the ...

  • Juggling Might Not Have Changed, But Load-Balancing Has!

    Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 18 Jul 2019
  • I recently completed a report for a long-time client, Kemp Technologies, in the area formerly known as L-B/ADC - i.e. Load-Balancing/Application Delivery Control. It really hit home, during the ...

  • There's AI and, er, AI....

    Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 25 Jun 2019
  • It's hard to recall a recent presentation from a vendor that didn't include the AI or Machine-Learning buzz-phrases. I'm not just talking IT here - coffee vending machines probably also incorporate ...

  • What's In A Number? Er, Lots Of Packets Per Second...

    Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 29 May 2019
  • I remember when first testing Gigabit Ethernet (Packet Engines and Foundry Networks for the record) and thinking: "how do we harness this much bandwidth - maybe take a TDM approach and slice it? ...