Justin Hadler, Director of Engineering at Hardware.com, looks at the security requirements for an SDN environment. To say there has been a lot of buzz around Software Defined Networking (SDN) recently is an understatement. Even before the high-profile deployment of SDN at Google and VMWare’s $1.25 billion acquisition of Nicira (not to mention the other [...]
View PostOff the Cuff – Do you play golf?
As a woman I face many challenges in the IT world. This is heightened by the fact that many (not all!) of the opposite sex shake hands with scepticism and mild intrigue questioning whether (as appearing a bit scatty!) I actually understand what a “hard drive” is, outside of cleaning a teenage cesspit of a [...]
View PostNexus of Forces and the need for immediate change
I am not a particularly technical person and quite frankly I don’t want to be. It’s not my bag. I do however have an interest in the pace of business change and the questions that are being asked of all businesses, particularly as the speed of change and the demands being made by the corporate [...]
View PostVertex Law’s Jo Owen Wins Future Leader Award
Vertex Law’s Jo Owen has been labelled a leader of the future after picking up a trophy at a legal sector awards ceremony. The Kings Hill firm’s Chief Information Officer took home the title of Future Leader at TheKnowList’s 2013 awards ceremony, held in London on Friday, March 8. Jo, 33, from Brixton, whose job [...]
View PostOff the Cuff – CRM in legal is dead. Long live CRM.
The client is king right? Now more so than ever, and everyone gets the importance of client management from Partners down so why do so many CRM initiatives end up as white elephants? CRM or Client Relationship Management has been around for a number of years now in legal with arguably four main types of [...]
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