Category Archives: Challenges

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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Choose your model carefully


When choosing a new car to buy you consider a number of factors – make, model, year, mileage, price, ongoing service and color. The chances are, you will consider its ability to enhance your lifestyle and transport you from A … Continue reading

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Do you have your own yellow brick road?


Unlike Dorothy in The Wizard of OZ, some businesses jump head first into the cloud without a yellow brick road or roadmap to guide them along their way and get them to where their business ultimately wants to be. Consider … Continue reading

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When is choosing a cloud provider like buying food?


I guess it shouldn’t be surprising how much confusion there still is about cloud computing.  Those of us that are living and breathing IT and cloud are really at a push to keep up with the vast array of options, … Continue reading

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Everything? There’s an app for that…


Talking to fellow Gen-i blogger, strategy manager Neil Osmond (who really is a clever bugger) recently, he brought up an interesting point about an offshoot of the Bring Your Own Device trend – Bring Your Own Application. The theory is … Continue reading

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