Further disruption to Middle-East Internet Services
Interruptions to Middle Eastern Internet services seem to be a bit of a theme over the last few years; but when you actually look at the maps of the undersea networks in the area you get to see...
View ArticleOrange Huawei so good you pay for it twice!
Sorry for the lack of recent posts but we're up to our ears in the latest development project - A complete profile of the Fortune Global 500. We are busy profiling the telecoms & IP services used...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Company Server replacements lower cost of service delivery
These guys are starting to pop up a lot in the UK. Their Hyper-dense virtualization appliance is a turnkey replacement for commodity servers and being able to run more VMs in less power and cooling is...
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Fortune Global 500
500 Companies20,000 divisions and subsidiaries$20 trillion dollars of turnoverEvery year this exclusive group of the worlds biggest companies buys $740bn of Telecoms services.Ever wondered where the...
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Distribution of sales of email Hygene Services USA 2008
For the last 5 years we at BackChannel have been tracking the use of email hygiene services by organisations around the world.We started with Messagelabs - now Symantec.cloud, Frontbridge - now...
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Mimecast takes South African Market by Storm
As part of the BackChannel bi-annual Hosted Email Security report we used our advanced search engine technology to electronically survey over 3,600 organisations in South Africa* in order to discover...
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Microsoft's cloudy platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours moreI worry about the concept of a...
View ArticleiCloud migration foobar infuriates customers
Whilst not directly related to the corporate cloud environment the current shenanigans at Apple are a reminder of some other things that can go wrong when a company tries to force its users down a...
View ArticleGMail fail should act as Cloud Warning
It was as recently as November 2011 that RIMs Blackberry server farms were unable to supply e-mail services to millions of customers for days, to the great delight of Starbucks customers and commuters...
View ArticleTATA leaves C&W Worldwide a sinking ship
Tata Communications 11th hour withdrawal from negotiations with Cable & Wireless Worldwide sent the troubled companies shares into free-fall yesterday and left the way clear for Vodafone to snap up...
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Vodafone snaps up Cable & Wireless
Vodafone looks to have succeeded in its ambition to buy up commercial network provider Cable & Wireless for a projected £1.04 billion ($1.76 billion), or about 40% of the estimated break up value...
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Submarine cable map 2012
The folks at Telegeography are producing another one of their great maps.Why not take a look.
View ArticleBackChannel Publish 9th Email Security Services Report
At BackChannel we use unique search engine technology to reveal actual Cloud and IP services usage & identify real market trends amongst over 1 million organisations worldwide. Every 6 months we...
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South African Hosted Email Security Update
Back in January we reported that Mimecast had taken control of the South African market after having grown at an extraordinary rate for the previous 18 months, We 1st identified Mimecast as a rising...
View ArticleDropbox security breach
As shown by the recent breach of security at 'everyman' Cloud darling Dropbox goes to show no matter what suppliers sell to you, cloud storage is not completely secure. So todays lesson is that if...
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Fragmented market for $1 trillion worth of telecoms business sales
Provision of telecoms services for the world’s biggest companies is remarkably diverse. A survey carried out exclusively for GTB by BackChannel shows that the world’s biggest 500 companies do not...
View ArticleMobile Data growth in Europe to slow as users rely more on WIFI
A really nice piece in Fierce Wireless, with graphs, from our friends over at Analysys Mason - another of us terrific Cambridge Research...
View ArticleA trip down memory lane: From Mosaic to Chrome
Having been online since the late 80's Browsers have been like the soundtrack to my career from the early days of Gopher, Veronica & Archie to the arrival of Marc Andreessen's ground breaking...
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Microsofts Office365 Telco Strategy should make Google nervous
AT&T last week joined Verizon and a pantheon of major service providers in the rush to offer MS Office365 email services. good start.Should Google be concerned? Well, I'm sure Eric Schmidt...
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Interactive Submarine Cable Map 2013
Those fine folks at Telegeography have published their Submarine Cable Map for 2013 and its jolly colourfulThey also publish an interactive version which is a must have link for anyone involved or...
View ArticleEvernote Hack: A well a handled Cloud service hack
Being completely up front we love Evernote here at BackChannel, almost everyone uses it. So it was a bit of a disappointment that a company that relies so heavily on its web infrastructure should fail...
View ArticleNew report highlights Mimecast South African sector growth
As those of you who follow us will know BackChannel produces a bi-annual Hosted Email Security report, a report that has been a must read for anybody working in the e-mail security market for over 5...
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Webroot Migration - where their customers went
In 2012 a pretty successful hosted email security company called Webroot did the unthinkable they dumped their core product effectively saying it was "... no longer necessary". Brave move or madness...
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More modest alternative to Oracles New 32Tb Database Appliance
I was following Oracles OpenWorld event this week and one of the things that caught my eye/ear was the launch of the new Oracle Database Appliance that is reckoned to run a 100x faster than anything...
View ArticleiOS7 implementation of Multi-path TCP promises seamless mobility and perhaps...
Here is a really fascinating article and I picked up today on the implementation of Multipath TCP in the new Apple iOS 7. What on Earth is Multipath TCP? Put simply it's the future of a smarter...
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