Travel budgets are being squeezed - gone are the days of leaping on the nearest plane and flying first class to have a 2 hour meeting on the other side of the pond, However, top-end videoconferencing suites, although highly effective, are not widespread in use as yet, generally due to the high costs of tele-immersion systems, and the need for dedicated rooms and managed high-bandwidth connections. ...
17/07/2009 | cw-vsee.pdf | VIEW
Many resellers will be finding it hard to motivate their customers to make new investments as the economy collapses. However, any purchase that helps them reduce business costs should at least get a hearing. ...
04/04/2009 | Unified Comm - for CRN March 2009.pdf | VIEW
As politicians quibble about whether a recession is turning into a depression, businesses are more focused on the bottom line. For IT departments this means two things: cutting their own costs and helping the broader business to cut its costs. Achieving the latter will serve the long term reputation of IT well. ...
28/03/2009 | Unfied comm - for silicon - March 2009.pdf | VIEW
Sunday 7 September 2008, will mark the 10th anniversary of the incorporation of Google Inc (not to be confused with the registration of the www.google.com domain 11 years ago in September 1997). In those 10 years Google has created one of the world’s most valuable brand names, become a verb and proved, during a period when many other online ventures failed, that a highly-profitable business can be created on the internet or as it is often termed, in the cloud. ...
03/09/2008 | Happy 10th Birthday Google, but have you done anything for businesses.pdf | VIEW
There continues to be much coverage in the press about the impact IT is having on the environment through increasing power consumption. As well as berating IT departments for the poor running of data centres and deploying devices inefficiently in the field there has also been more positive talk about the valuable role IT can play in reducing carbon emissions elsewhere, especially in transportation. This is a pressing issue anyway with the fuel price crisis. ...
28/06/2008 | Cisco eats its own dog foot - and it tastes OK.pdf | VIEW
Businesses rely on widely distributed networks of workers, be they at HQ, in branch offices, mobile in the field or working at some other external location. Whilst the office continues to be seen as the primary place of work, more and more staff are spending at least part of their working week somewhere else. Certain employees have always needed to be on the move; today they are better connected but the availability of connectivity means that other jobs that were previously confined to offices can now also be done from afar, which also means they can be more easily outsourced to third parties. This report looks at the degree to which the 21st century workforce is distributed and the issues organisations have with enabling this. ...
11/03/2008 | Quocirca - The Distributed Business Index - March 2008.pdf | VIEW
