Today is the first “official” day at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress, with the sun shining on Berlin to make the setting perfect. The weather wasn’t the only thing that left me feeling very ebullient today, as we also took part in some very interesting panels. Read more...

Spring time... I always feel like there is a lot of pressure in the air that sort of builds up over the cold and wet winter months and charges at us with force of a Niagara Falls. We are feeling squashed by it and rush for remedy that can help us survive this mass of urgent things to do in our work and personal lives. Many of these remedies are not helping, most of them lead to yet another thing to do and make this whirlpool of events spin faster. Only very few remedies actually work! Solutions to our problems that leave us satisfied with ourselves and others... What makes a difference? The classic management theory is teaching us that solutions to our problems should be effective, efficient and economic. Three e-words which make whole lot of a difference in our lives. Read more...

There was a story in the press recently about some classified information on President Obama’s helicopter being shared on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The document was traced back to a shared folder of a government contractor and contained detailed information on the helicopter’s communications, navigation and flight management systems. What is even more concerning than the leak of classified government information is that the document was recently found on a P2P system in Iran. Read more...