Despite the IT industry’s frequent use of the term ‘data centre’ to refer to a room of anything from two racks upwards, a recent poll of IT professionals conducted by Eaton has discovered that 68% of respondents still believe ‘server room’ is a more accurate description for an SMB IT room.
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Better document processes could mean more revenue, suggests study sponsored by Ricoh
Sep 06, 2012
Ricoh UK is advising companies that improving document processes such as sales and marketing, customer communications, customer onboarding, service and support, developing new products, and billing and collection, which are traditionally seen as a strategy primarily for cost reduction, could yield some surprising revenue benefits.
Flexible working practices enabled by BYOD 'creating generation of productive workaholics'
Aug 23, 2012
iPass Inc., has published its quarterly Mobile Workforce Report which shows that the flexible working schedules permitted through Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in the workplace has resulted in many employees working up to 20 additional hours per week, with a third never fully disconnecting from technology, even during personal time.
Desktop death is imminent, say CIOs
Aug 15, 2012
Almost 40% of CIOs believe that buying desktops will become obsolete in the next five years, according to new research from Intrinsic Technology.
The internet economy is the key to the UK's financial recovery
Aug 15, 2012
Online businesses account for 8.3% of Britain's economy but we can expect even stronger future growth from this sector according to Gary David Smith - co-founder of Prism Total IT Solutions.
Data centres are the way forward for British businesses
Aug 15, 2012
More and more British companies are finding that they can increase their computing power and save money by migrating their network to the Cloud, according to ANS Group.
Almost half of companies worry that BYOD increases viruses
Aug 09, 2012
The results of a study released today by Lieberman Software Corporation confirms that BYOD (bring your own device) increases costs to businesses. Respondents were asked if they believed allowing employees to connect their own devices (such as USB drives, mobile phones, portable PCs and home computers) to the corporate network increased costs – with 67% saying that it did increase costs.
Letter to the Editor: The CRM VAR is Dead
Aug 01, 2012
From John Paterson, CEO, Really Simple Systems
In the nineties you could make money selling accounting systems to small businesses. You'd get a 35% margin on the product (SunSystems, Tetra, Multisoft, Omicron –ah! those names from the past!).
BYOD is accelerating the rise of the Personal Cloud
Aug 01, 2012
Manish Sablok, Head of Marketing for CNE Europe at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, looks at how BYOD is driving consumers' appetite to Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), empowering today's highly mobile workforce, and offers a strategy for enterprises to support the inevitable move to the personal Cloud.
When is a smartphone not so smart?
Jul 26, 2012
Today, there are an estimated 1 million mobile applications, representing 40 billion downloads by consumers across the globe. By 2017, it's predicted that there will be a staggering 2 billion smartphone devices worldwide.