Category Archives: Cloud

Simplifying your collaborations in an increasingly demanding world


I recently wrote about hosted unified communications and the reasons for reconsidering its merits now that its many features equaled or even bettered those of on-premise UC solutions. The over-arching benefit, I think, is that hosted UC enables greater responsiveness … Continue reading

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5 reasons your business should reconsider hosted unified communications


Hosted Unified Communications (UC) has historically been disregarded by many businesses as it has been unable to come close to offering the features obtained using on-premise solutions. Like many technology decisions, yesterday’s stroke of genius could be today’s folly. The … Continue reading

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BYOD, cloud, security top of mind at 2013 ICT Conference


BYOD, cloud computing, security, virtualisation and video conferencing are among the issues that are on top of the minds of attendees at this year’s Gen-i ICT Conference. In feedback surveys, as well as in the video below, attendees listed technologies … Continue reading

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Are you ready to engage, Auckland?


The Gen-i 2013 ICT Conference comes to a close in Auckland tomorrow, after travelling to 11 cities across New Zealand over the past four weeks. And we’re expecting it to be a vibrant event with over 300 people anticipated to … Continue reading

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How big is Big Data?


As our new CEO Tim Miles has stated in a Herald article recently, at Gen-i we are focussing on the convergence of key ICT trends – Mobility, Cloud, Social Applications and Big Data.  These trends are all inter-related and show … Continue reading

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