Category Archives: How To

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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Preparing for the cloud


For many companies cloud computing is not so much a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’ and ‘how’. The ‘when’ question is dealt with by technology refresh cycles. As companies approach update time they’ll decide whether to make the shift this … Continue reading

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Cloud migration – great benefits await those who plan well


Working with a range of clients, you start to appreciate the reality of what’s involved in moving workloads from a traditional on-premise delivery environment to the cloud. Whether it’s because of push-back from users, IT department concerns or feature gaps, … Continue reading

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