Steve Cassidy
Latest articles by Steve Cassidy
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Cray shows the value of Secret Sauce
By Steve Cassidy published
Opinion The supercomputing firm's recent growth is no mystery
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Making technical sense of the TalkTalk story
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Does TalkTalk deserve to be pilloried for this latest data breach?
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Jimmy Wales breaks into the mobile business
By Steve Cassidy published
Opinion Wikipedia founder's foray into the mobile business mixes phones with social netwokring and charity
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Learning the lessons of failure
By Steve Cassidy published
Opinion Can the enterprise teach the internet a thing or two about designing for failure?
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A voyage of data discovery
By Steve Cassidy published
Opinion Steve Cassidy is surprised at what he finds on his latest data quest...
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What is the difference between cloud and virtualisation?
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Are they the same or different? Steve Cassidy tries to cut through some of the confusion...
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What is Skype for Business?
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth What is Skype for Business and what can it do for you? Steve Cassidy takes a look...
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Troy Hunt and havibeenpwned.com
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Steve Cassidy has found a tech hero of late, in the form of Troy Hunt, the guy behind havibeenpwned.com...
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Panasonic 20in ToughPad: Useful tool or oversized novelty?
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth We take a closer look at the £4000 4K tablet
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ExpressRoute for Azure: Will the UK be left out?
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth There's a disconnect in the way Microsoft talks about ExpressRoute and how its partners will likely talk about it, worries Steve Cassidy...
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Openness in the Internet of Things
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Just because machines can talk to one another doesn't mean they should, warns Steve Cassidy in his latest column...
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How much does running a business on Azure really cost?
By Steve Cassidy published
Opinion The real cost of cloud can be different from the theory but provided you're well-run, it shouldn't be excessive
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Office for iPad, Azure, and you
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Steve Cassidy shares the secrets he discovered on a recent visit to Microsoft HQ in Redmond...
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AmIrunningxp.com – the tip of the iceberg
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Moving off XP a bigger problem than Millennium Bug.
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How sunspots affect your network
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Steve Cassidy shares his recent travel woes and how such issues are closer to an IT problem than you might first think...
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Malware protection in the 21st century
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth CloudFlare's CEO talks security with Steve Cassidy
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How to choose the right disk utility
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Steve Cassidy provides some practical guidance as to how to ensure you make the right decision when it comes to disk utilities...
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How small stacks up against big when choosing cloud
By Steve Cassidy published
Opinion A contrasting approach to cloud provides small business with a way of working
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Five unexpected things at IBM IOD 2013
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Steve Cassidy looks back on his recent trip to Las Vegas for IBM's IOD conference...
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Citrix ShareFile: grown-up file sharing
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Steve Cassidy takes a look at what ShareFile has to offer.
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Short take: Dell S6000 SDN switch
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth The humble switch is more important in today's world than you might think...
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Do you qualify for cloud status?
By Steve Cassidy published
In-depth Steve Cassidy ponders whether you're already cloud-enabled but just don't know it yet...
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Office 365 - how Microsoft is redefining cloud descriptions
By Steve Cassidy published
Opinion Office 365, hybrid cloud and BI are phrases that don't always fit the conventional cloud model says Steve Cassidy