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Stephen Eveleigh

Conferencing is a tool and collaboration is a process

by: Stephen Eveleigh

I read the above statement on an analyst’s website recently and it made me think about how this may be important for our customers. For me the idea of a conference is straight forward; 2 or more people come together at an appointed time to discuss...

25 October 2010


Hugo Harber

Outsource, Managed Service or Cloud

by: Hugo Harber

One has to make a clear distinction between outsourcing, managed service and cloud. Outsourcing is all about wholesale transference of internal competencies, responsibilities and assets of a department or function to another party, these are almos...

22 September 2010


Hugo Harber

Evolution not Revolution.

by: Hugo Harber

Are on-demand IT services really all that new? Are we really experiencing a revolution in the way businesses consume the IT services that support them? The way I see it, SMEs harnessed the benefits of Iaas & SaaS long before they were known by tho...

27 August 2010


Stephen Eveleigh

Presence leads to more effective decision making

by: Stephen Eveleigh

I've been using Office Communicator for a number of months now and I have noticed how it's quickly become intertwined with the way in which I work.  The real-time communication enabled by Communicator for instant messaging/audio or audio/video (PC...

27 August 2010


Hugo Harber

Just who is “waking up”?

by: Hugo Harber

I am sometimes asked whether SME's are "waking up" to the benefits of cloud computing .  I see it the other way around; that they have been searching for answers to everyday business problems for many years, and the ways of accessing new...

16 August 2010


Hugo Harber

A look to the (not so distant) future

by: Hugo Harber

The needs of UK businesses are evolving at an unbelievable pace – a technology aware workforce, challenging economic climate and access to new technology advances almost every day are creating the perfect climate for progression. Out of all of the...

17 May 2010


Hugo Harber

What is Unified Communications?

by: Hugo Harber

Over the next few weeks I will be looking at how best to approach Unified Communications to gain the maximum advantage for your business. I will consider specifically the what, why and how? - starting today with the what? Unified communications ca...

30 April 2010


Hugo Harber

Addressing the green agenda with technology

by: Hugo Harber

As I start to think about budgeting for next year with the obvious restraints the current economic climate imposes I am also looking to technology to help provide environmental savings for the business. Whilst the carbon footprint of businesses in...

24 March 2010


Hugo Harber

Cloud so what?

by: Hugo Harber

Many of our customers are looking at how to make the most of the newly created cloud services . Of course how to achieve this varies from business to business but to generalise there are some activities you can embark on which will help you make t...

15 January 2010


Hugo Harber

Remove the jargon to discover the benefits

by: Hugo Harber

Convergence, Cloud and Unified Communications are terms which have bandied around by technology companies for a few years now, but tend to mean little to the businesses I talk to. Over the next few weeks we will look at some of these terms and...

05 January 2010


Hugo Harber

My Top Ten Corporate Security Threats

by: Hugo Harber

Security threats are more than just a distraction. An attack directed at financial or personal records or business-critical applications is potentially devastating. But even indiscriminate attacks can result in the loss of valuable data, high repa...

24 November 2009


Hugo Harber

Waiting until it is too late, costs more.

by: Hugo Harber

Security spending is a cost that’s notoriously difficult to justify in traditional cost/benefit terms: you spend a lot on security and in the best-case scenario nothing happens! But it’s important to remember that reactive security spending is...

16 November 2009


Hugo Harber

Avoiding Single Vendor Lock in with cloud computing

by: Hugo Harber

You have infrastructure in place right now; it’s built on a common Windows or UNIX platform and you’re either in-sourcing or outsourcing the hosting. As cloud computing matures your business has more and more options to move services to the cloud....

30 October 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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