Guido Jouret, CTO of Cisco's emerging technologies group, explains how Cisco solutions such as Pulse, Show and Share are different from existing offerings from Cisco's competitors

The IT industry has ignored the availability of IPv6 addresses for too long at the risk of adding unnecessary risk and complexity to internet architectures, says Axel Pawlik, managing director of RIPE NCC.

With the Spirit  cloud infrastructure project on the launchpad,  Savvis' CTO Bryan Doerr has plenty to say when we ask him whether users are ready to trust the cloud

3G can't connect up the off-net millions, but Wi-Fi can, says Selina Lo, chief executive of Ruckus Wireless

Two standards are on their way for network virtualisation in the data centre. There's an open alternative to the proprietary parts of Cisco's UCS, says HP Procurve's CTO

Government plans for super-fast broadband need a lot of work - but BT is pushing ahead with its own roll-out

BT has plenty of ideas to help meet the Digital Britain plans for a universal broadband service - but the government needs to work out what services users need, says BT's corporate strategy director

While the focus during this recession may have turned to green IT and virtualisation for IT savings, Michael Bayer of Avaya argues the case for unified communications.

Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system consolidation and standards will be key.