FOREWORD
FOREWORD
The broadband debate...
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Your career architecture
There is change afoot: in fact, we are in the midst of great and historic change. I
am not about to plunge you into the forthcoming referendum debate, but rather, I
invite you take stock of progress into the era of Cloud Computing.
As we have already witnessed with the PC during the now familiar era of ClientServer Computing, this kind of change is inevitably driven by demand. And so it is
Computing,
big of
data,
commoditisation
of everything
and IoT, amongst
Not a month goes by without someone finding a newwith
wayCloud
to send
vast amounts
data
down a single fibre,
but how will
others,
can all
benefit from
is be
on offer,
and whatwith
is toexperts
come. from
ever-present high-speed broadband make a difference
to ourwe
Internet
experience?
Wewhat
could
interconnected
But there
is still confusion:
allglobe,
too often
we refer
to the cloud
and
discuss its
all conceivable professions, accessing scientific and everyday
equipment
all over the
reaching
communities
of all
shapes
merits
and
adoption.
Should
we
use
a
private
cloud
or
a
public
one?
Perhaps
a
and sizes, using all sorts of new applications and services — all in real time. High-speed broadband can enable our projects
to
hybrid cloud is the answer? I think this term – the cloud – is a marketing term and
be adopted across both our business and social lives, and the only effective way to deliver this future is with a fibre optic-based
distinctly different to Cloud Computing and quite limiting.
infrastructure.Tech investment is hitting record highs in the UK and the essential foundation of this booming growth is access to
So what is the point? Well, this historic period through which we currently live
broadband. In an ideal world the whole of the Unitedoffers
Kingdom’s
telecoms
network would
be based
off a pure fibre
optic
network,
the most
comprehensive
tool set
to all organisations
and
every
individual:
but in reality it makes more economic sense to upgrade
what
already
exists.
Convincing
stakeholders
that
fibre
is
a
necessary
actually I think it is highly democratic. This huge and growing choice is not
investment is yet another obstacle. There is a clear role
here forto
providers
to help demonstrate
business
case
foroffer
fibre.advantage
The good and
confined
IT professionals.
The utility the
of this
tool set
can
benefit
a wide
range
of disciplines,
including
business
news is thatBig
all of the
major operators are bringing fibre
optictocables
ever
closer
to homes, but
we need
to focusprofessionals.
on take-up of As always,
Data
Big Data data centres and security
it will
be or
thetwenty
IT professionals
who be
areable
asked
deliverthe
it, last
butfew
the metres
opportunity
is
superfast
broadband by businesses, not just consumers.
In ten
years we might
to to
replace
of
much
than that.
copper and coax with a true fibre optic connection, but
timebigger
will tell.
What do you want from your career? To be a provider of business critical
services or to be higher up the food chain and innovate those services to create a
Enjoy the issue.
capability previously undreamed of? Your future is in your hands.
Nick Wells
May/June 2016
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