Recent research Juniper Networks conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit across Germany, Japan, the U.S and U.K found that high-performing organisations that work with and rely on its IT department and subsequent technology insights are able to drive business growth and innovation within their organisations. The full global report can be downloaded here but I want to focus on the UK and German figures that emerged....

A conference sponsor's summary of at the recent EPF7 peering event, hosted by LINX, DE-CIX, Netnod and AMS-IX.

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...

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.

Will the recent publication of the UK Cyber Security Strategy automatically lead to a safer cyber space? Neil Pound takes a look at one proposal within the strategy - to pool information on threats and how to combat them. He concludes that the Strategy is heading in the right direction but there are cultural and competitive issues to overcome if it is to be successful.    

Traditionally, the network has been the main revenue centre for Service Providers (SPs). With the growth of the Internet and especially the Over-the-Top (OTT) services, SPs have been forced to throw additional resources to support the traffic growth and are rapidly being forced to build unsustainable business models were the network becomes a cost centre.

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.

Neil Pound Pound argues that innovation is as much the province of users as it is of engineers and technologists. He then wonders why the UK public sector is not more adventurous in setting visionary goals to force the pace of innovation in the IT industry enabling more creative delivery of some public services.   

 At a time when the public sector holds more information about us than ever before it would appear we are becoming less trusting. Neil Pound asks how this affects our confidence in the public sector's ability to safeguard sensitive information and should we be more realistic and tolerate the occasional security breach?

The UK government estimates shared services will save £500m each year on a current spend of £2.5BN. Would a private company pursue such a reward more aggressively?