If there’s one thing that transforms my city every year it is Mobile World Congress. For one week, MWC is at the very top of the agenda for all press, politicians, hotels, restaurants, taxis and unfortunately even pickpockets! And of course, 1,500 exhibitors and over 67,000 visitors from 205 countries have a positive impact to the city.

Traditional data center networks cast shadows in which security appliances must operate. Modern data centers don't just need new architectures to increase performance, they need them to increase the ability to apply and manage security services.

Last week Juniper was Silver Sponsor at Telecom Cloud Services Summit (#telcocloud). The audience numbers were significantly higher this year and the topics broader.

Here are my Top 5 Tech-Free takeaways...

In this blog post, I'm looking at the global trends in mobile data and the need for new approaches to operator services that can help increase the mobile data margins and help operators play a more decisive and enabling role in the mobile ecosystem. 

Last week Juniper was the lead sponsor at Cloud Net, London, co-hosted by the Open Network Foundation. When it came to the role of SDN and OpenFlow, there was some lively debate. Here are my takeways, what were yours?

http://www.juniper.net/cloudsecurityJoin me, Nigel Stephenson, on Feb 28^th for a 30 minute webinar where I will outline some major steps you can take to secure the networks that power the cloud.

For the 2^nd year running Juniper are Silver sponsors of the Telecom Cloud Services Summit taking place in Berlin on April 24/25th 2012

Complimentary delegate pass worth up to £1300 for qualifying Juniper customers and partners...

Two things really excite me about this event...

 Security is oft touted as the number one inhibitor to cloud adoption, but is there grounding for this in technology terms?

The answer lies within us, not the technology...

This week I attended the Intellect Cloud Computing Conference in London. Among the keynote speakers was Chris Chant, Director of DirectGov and Digital Engagement. Among the topics was G-Cloud – a significant part of the UK Government ICT Strategy.

I've listened to a few government IT/CIO speakers but Chris is different. Very different...

I had a simple question from a Juniper partner recently - where can I find out about how Juniper secures 'the cloud'?

A quick browse of our juniper.net website and I found lots of great information about our security capabilities; in the data center, the mobile access and all in-between. But nothing that put it all under one roof.

So I’m pleased to say we have taken a small step to make your life a lot easier. I had a word with those who know and we have built a new cloud security area on the site.

With the boom of over-the-top Internet and mobile data traffic and the gradual move of services to Internet players, Service Providers are struggling to find space in this fragmented competitive market. Why not just simply transport the traffic and continue with the traditional business model? Well, it worked during the ‘land grab’ periods, where a large number of new users were subscribing to new services and the model could justify large investments in new infrastructure...

The G-Cloud is a fantastic opportunity to drive down cost and radically change how UK citizen's experience public services The technology exists and there are plenty of examples in private enterprise from which government can learn. But, it takes more than just getting the technology right. Neil Pound argues coordination, cooperation, thinking ahead, and leadership have an equally important part to play.

The consumerisation of IT has led to the proliferation of smart devices and the advent of cloud services fuels this proliferation by enabling applications to run in a dynamic and elastic fashion; independent of the storage and processing power of the end device.

The ‘prosumer¹’– a social/business individual - now expects to access both personal and business applications with equal ease and from the same, often privately owned, device. The so-called ‘Bring Your Own Device⁶ (BOYD) conundrum’.

This combination of increased mobility of the user, non-managed devices and the virtualised/multi-tenant data centre, leads to a number of security challenges not previously experienced by the enterprise or service provider.

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