If you are considering mobile video collaboration, congratulations. Mobile video offers incredible opportunities to speed up business communications, offer new sales and service models and improve remote and mobile worker engagement. Your employees (and even your customers) most likely already have video-capable mobile devices (tablets, smart phones, laptops). Now you can harness that communication potential
Video is a no-brainer to today’s generation entering the workforce. The “YouTube” generation expects to be able to use video to express themselves and communicate. This desire brings video solutions into the workplace, as resourceful employees strive to be more effective in their role using the latest tools and technologies. As these resourceful employees prove
A transformational shift is occurring in the IT landscape one that happens every 15 to 20 years. Not unlike the shift to the Internet and e-business, the shift to mobile is dramatically changing the way people work and organisations conduct business. As in earlier shifts, IT departments are being challenged to effectively manage resources and
Following a management buyout, Hamilton Rentals found it necessary to separate its IT and communications infrastructure from the parent company, a situation that presented both challenges and opportunities for IT Manager Russell Bauckham. “We needed an IP-based phone solution that would be affordable and that we wouldn’t outgrow,” he says. “We also needed to connect
IRV is a reinsurance enterprise, working with reinsurance companies all around the world. Historically, the firm had relied on traditional telecommunications channels such as phone, fax, and email. In 2012, as the company’s existing phone system was nearing nine years of age, it decided that the time was right to introduce new unified communication tools
The role of servers in your organization has changed substantially—with their uses, requirements, and complexity all increasing dramatically in recent years. Many of the traditional tools and techniques that worked in the past don’t suffice any more. Consequently, server monitoring presents several critical battles in today’s demanding environments. This guide looks at some of the
In the past few years, the enterprise computing landscape has changed dramatically. Virtualization, outsourcing, SaaS, and cloud computing are creating fundamental changes, and ushering in an era in which enterprises distribute increasingly critical IT assets and applications across multiple service providers. These changes are rendering legacy monitoring tools, which have their roots in the computing
Today, organizations face a heightened threat landscape with data breaches constantly on the rise. Financial records, medical records, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and other private business data exist in virtually every enterprise data center. Failing to safeguard the databases that store this information can damage your reputation, impact your operations, and result in regulatory violations,
Detecting and stopping a data breach has always been a challenge. However, recent regulations, which require organizations to notify the public of a data breach that involves consumer data, have heightened the need for effective database security tools. According to the Verizon ‘2010 Data Breach Investigations Report’, 92% of the breaches that compromised data involved
IT departments are embracing cloud backup, but there’s a lot you need to know before choosing a service provider. For example, did you know: • That encryption doesn’t guarantee privacy? • That you could lose data by choosing the wrong cloud? • That cloud backup doesn’t have to be slow?