I visited a conference yesterday organised by Freshbusinessthinking.com for entrepreneurs. Lots of speakers provided by a number of interesting talks on how to grow a business and what the recession means to…
MPLS for SME’s
Little piece I wrote on MPLS technology and how it is poorly portrayed to SMEs. http://network.itproportal.com/articles/2008/11/04/converged-communication-networks-what-you-need-know/
SMBs ready for hosted applications?
Interesting article one of my colleagues came across the other day discusses whether SMB’s are ready for hosted applications. From what I can make out Easynet’s take is that quite a few…
High oil prices caused the recession
It is my belief that the real cause of the recession has been the huge oil prices the world has had to endure for the past 8-months. At the end of February…
Business look to bonding
The industry seems to be waking up to the idea of bonding as the demand for higher upload and download speeds increases. Fluidata has been doing this for the past few years…
Working from home
Food for thought: http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/10/28/right-tools-making-telecommuting-possible/
BP’s Profits too much?
I am going to put my neck out here and say that actually I don’t have an issue with the profits BP are currently making. There has been quite a lot of…
Cisco 7604
Fluidata to help keep the internet ticking over. Well this is a picture of one of our new Cisco 7604 routers which will be brought online in the next few weeks across…
Homework tonight?
I thought I would share with you one of the most shocking comments I have heard this year. A friend of mine was asked into the head teachers’ office at a local…
Are businesses mad?
This week sees the launch of BT’s new promotion for businesses. Sign up today and get a free mobile dongle so you can browse the internet when not in the office! It…
Less is definitely more
One of our most interesting products to be developed this year at Fluidata has been the VOX 2.0 service. For the past 18-months Fluidata has been using the Telefonica O2 network for…
Telegraph
If anyone is interested I made it onto the Telegraph today. Had a good interview a few weeks back with Philip Smith who heads up the Telegraph Business Club with regards to…
Fibre to the home
In one of my previous comments I talk about the report the BSG recently published regarding fibre to the home will cost £28bn. Well to follow up the report the BSG held…
Is a small company a bad thing?
In relation to my last post I just want to clarify that my position of what is a small business would probably fit 99% of all businesses in the UK economy. I…
Bullying small businesses
One thing that really annoys me is some larger enterprise customers’ perception of a smaller business and its ability to dictate the terms of business. I have talked previously that in this…