It’s not easy to build an IT budget that is both accurate and agile. Between all the different vendor contract terms, pricing structures, support expiration dates, license renewals, hardware upgrades, and infrastructure changes, it’s hard enough to not overlook a key investment – and that’s just the beginning! Over our
There was a time when you needed a variety of tools to communicate in the office. One for video conferences, another for phones, another for text, another for fax, another for webinars, and — oh yeah — physical phones too. That’s multiple vendors that you are paying each month, and
When it comes to cloud computing, providers tend to harp on the idea of mind-blowing cost savings in their promotional material. In fact, this notion has saturated the IT landscape to the point where many firms will reflexively equate “cloud” with “cheap,” even if they’ve never actively explored a cloud
No matter how advanced technology gets, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that it won’t last forever. Your staff’s machines will begin to show signs of slowness after about 3 years. After 5, you’ll be lucky if they’re running anywhere close to full capacity. Your servers will start generating
Increasingly, organizations are viewing remote access solutions as a necessity, not an option.
Here’s an unsettling statistic for you: according to The Ponemon Institute’s 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cybercrime, 2014 cybercrime incidences increased by 10.4% over 2013 numbers. Another from IBM: after a breach, an organization loses, on average, 29% of market mindshare due to reputation and brand damage, 21%
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