Blog entries posted during 2011

Stephen Eveleigh

Top 5 Tips to Rolling Out Unified Communications to End Users

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Once you’ve made the decision about which UC provider to partner with you now face another task. End user engagement; essentially you now need to sell the idea of unified communications to your end users. So, with that in mind here are some top ti...

02 December 2011


Hugo Harber

When IT goes Bad!

by: Hugo Harber

I was reading this morning that the FiReControl Plan (a universal panacea for the fire service) - estimated cost £120m, actual cost £470m value delivered £0 – had been abandoned! I was immediately worried that whoever named the project didn't know...

21 September 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

Top 5 Reasons to Choose Hosted Voice

by: Stephen Eveleigh

UK businesses can finally replace their old phone systems and get a far more flexible phone solution for a fraction of the cost. But it’s not just replacing one phone system for another. With Hosted voice, you get the benefits of a fully managed...

26 July 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

Build vs. Buy; In-House vs. Cloud

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Expansion into new markets. Business intelligence. Online and e-commerce development. Mergers and acquisitions activity. ERP and application integration. Compliance requirements. Network consolidation. Telephony and unified communications projects...

06 June 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

The Millstone That Is Your Email Inbox

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Look around at your colleagues, can you see the weight that sits on their shoulders? Let’s be truthful we’re all suffering from email overload. Most employees within an organisation now have access to email and its uses are endless. The original...

06 June 2011


John Iball

The uncrossed-fingers approach to email continuity

by: John Iball

With businesses becoming more and more reliant on their email systems it would seem obvious that resilient business email systems are a necessity, not a 'nice-to-have'. Email outages are costly, and not just for the obvious reasons. Yes, there wil...

24 May 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

5 Top Tips for Choosing a Voice Supplier

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Telephony is no longer just an infrastructure conversation. Vendor consolidation and increased emphasis on software-based collaboration is transforming the way in which business consume telephony. Features on the whole have remained static...

16 May 2011


Ben Crouch

Why did Microsoft buy Skype?

by: Ben Crouch

Microsoft’s $8bn (£5bn) acquisition of Skype on Tuesday certainly had the markets asking why the software blue-chip has paid so much cash for a loss making consumer service. As the markets closed Microsoft’s stock was slightly down, suggesting...

11 May 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

Bring Your Own PC

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Last week I was sat in a meeting and noticed the plethora of devices which each individual summarily threw on the desk as the meeting started. iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, legacy handsets, tablets and laptops.   The pre-meeting conversation...

04 May 2011


David Palmer

Are you getting enough Fibre?

by: David Palmer

Over the last few months as we have been working towards the launch of Fibre Broadband , I have descended into the realms of super-geek. I have found myself becoming a 'cabinet spotter'! This started with my own cabinet and waiting in anticipation...

11 April 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

SIP - Cost reduction, yes. But more than meets the eye

by: Stephen Eveleigh

ISDN is the long-time telephony technology of choice for medium sized business it has provided consistent service, but little flexibility. With the recent coming of age of SIP, telephony is changing for the better, businesses now have the choice t...

08 April 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

Should an IT manager have a corporate Ebay account?

by: Stephen Eveleigh

I have been with a few customers over the last month or so who have had problems with their small key systems.  We always joke about looking for spare parts on Ebay.  It makes me wonder if the credit crunch meant organizations stopped replacing th...

07 April 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

Unified Communications and End User Adoption

by: Stephen Eveleigh

So you've selected the technology, found an integrator, signed a licensing agreement and the project plan is in place. Your business is on the road to delivering unified communications and grasping all the associated benefits. But, how do you inte...

05 April 2011


Stephen Eveleigh

The Future of Corporate IT is Private Cloud Computing

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Cloud computing has become a short hand for the complex process of virtualisation and application delivery. On the whole, most users of cloud computing use Public Cloud services such as Google Apps, Microsoft BPOS or SalesForce.com, all names that...

28 February 2011


John Iball

Security in the Private Cloud

by: John Iball

The number one concern that prevents companies from moving services and data into the cloud is security. While the commercial benefits may be compelling for many businesses, the thought of relying on a third party to secure networks, applications...

25 February 2011


Paul Watson

Private Cloud Delivering Real Business Outcomes

by: Paul Watson

There is growing acceptance that the cloud is a legitimate alternative to the traditional on-premise IT model and that it has the potential to afford significant business benefits. For midsized and small businesses the advantages include enhanced...

25 February 2011


Ben Crouch

Searching for a New Year’s resolution

by: Ben Crouch

Searching for a New Year's resolution While e-discovery continues to be a hot topic, for most it conjures up images of forensically stamped electronic information used by large organisations in corporate legal proceedings. In most cases it's real...

26 January 2011


Hugo Harber

Once it's gone it's gone

by: Hugo Harber

Once it's gone you never get it back As we all know time is precious and once it's gone you never get it back. So I find myself at the end of January wondering why I didn't get as much done as I wanted to. The reason is snow or rather the lack of...

26 January 2011

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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