Switching It Up with Jimbo and Nick!

Join James and Nick as they unpack the 2024 State of the Cloud Nation. Discover the latest trends, from fierce competition to network elasticity and more.

Join Jimbo and Nick, your Network IT specialists, as they review 2023's trends and dive into this year's predictions. They reflect on centralising services, improving infrastructure visibility, and security challenges. 

In this festive Christmas episode of Switching it Up", hosts Graham, Nick, and Jimbo explore the challenges of selling IT projects to the C Suite.They discuss aligning projects with business goals, the value disconnect, and avoiding rushed climbs up the beanstalk. Key topics include KPIs, ROI, change management, and vendor selection.🎅 Merry Christmas and Best Wishes from Switching it Up with Jimbo and Nick! 🎁

Join us for Episode 12 of Switching It Up with Jimbo and Nick, where this time we'll dive into the world of operational efficiencies and network automation, and how you can apply these to your business.

Ensuring you get the best and most value out of your technology stack and software is key in today's world of IT. Here, the team at BestPath give you some great tips and advice on what to look out for.

Join BestPath and leading experts from Cisco and Netscout as they discuss the fundamental steps to observability and what’s next for network visibility.Guest Speakers:Raghav Dhir - EMEA DC Networking Specialist - CiscoRaghav has been working alongside customers for well over 15 years, positioning solutions that address real business challenges. In his current role at Cisco Systems, he has worked as a worldwide technology specialist. His focus is the EMEA go-to-market of Cisco’s DC software solutions and cloud technologies.Joe Munday - Chief Solution Architect - NETSCOUTJoe has been working within the CTO office to help NETSCOUT exceed customer expectations and to drive new behaviours and business value within the Visibility market.Agenda:- The fundamental steps to network observability- Why is visibility critical to today’s businesses?- How to overcome common pitfalls when implementing network visibility- Examples of successful customer deployments- How you can get started- Q&A

Switchin' it up is back in the studio! This time we're joined by Rich Ferrier from AlgoSec, who talked with us about visibility and monitoring in the networking space.

We sat down with George Barnes, CEO of Hamilton Barnes, in our brand new podcast studio to discuss the skills and people shortage in the industry, and whether or not it’s just ‘recruitment hype’.

This month, the guys discuss network security. We debate which is a greater threat to network stability: poor security, or outages? Do firewalls still have a place within a security infrastructure? What were some of the key takeaways from the world of network security at Cisco Live in Amsterdam this year?

Jimbo and Nick talk network outages in February's edition of the podcast. Join the guys as they answer: What is the cost of an outage to business? What are some of the most common causes of outages? How is the industry attempting to mitigate them?

Happy New Year to all our listeners! In this episode, Jimbo and Nick talk the trends they expect within the industry for 2023.

It's Christmas! In this month's edition of Switching it Up, Jimbo, Nick and Graham take you on a journey through time as we explore how networks have evolved, and what we can expect from them in the near future.

This month, Jimbo and Nick are joined by Matt Seaton and Matthew Butt from Netwise, to talk on-prem vs cloud consumption costs, amongst other topics!

This time, Jimbo and Nick ask the question: to prem or not to prem? The debate around on-premise vs cloud based IT systems.

Welcome to the second episode and first topic led podcast in the series, discussing the issues around Hardware Shortfall.

In this first episode, Jimbo and Nick introduce themselves, and explain to people what this new podcast series is all about.