For many organizations, their cloud budget has become their new phone bill. Your organization needs cloud services, but you have finite resources and don’t want to spend any more than you have to, and you certainly don’t want to go over budget....
Nearly every company deploys some kind of legacy product that just doesn’t perform as well as a new and improved alternative. Case in point, copper-based communication lines like Ethernet over Copper, POTS and DSL.Many organizations continue to use legacy products in the face of more...
SDWAN is exploding. Andrew Lerner of Gartner stated in 2017 that "SDWAN is delivering on the promise. In just three short years, adoption has taken off, and we now estimate 6,000 plus paying SDWAN customers with more than 4,000 production implementations." With so many SDWAN...
For the last couple of decades, technology expense management (TEM) has been the way many organizations handle their billing. Paper billing has long gone the way of the dinosaur, thanks to the large expense involved in printing, shipping, storing and processing....
Gartner predicts total spending on SDWAN network products will rise from $129 million in 2016 to $1.24 billion by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, Frost and Sullivan believe SDWAN has moved from the early adopter stage into the growth stage of the product life...
Collaboration is more important -- and easier -- than ever, thanks to tools for sharing documents, instant communication and workflow tracking. However, too many collaboration tools can often be counterproductive. Many companies purchase Microsoft Office 365, but retain competing legacy collaboration tools. In fact, BCM...
In the not-so-distant past, VARs and system integrators sold software and cloud, and there was a Telephony agent who you went to for your carrier business. Now everyone is becoming a one-stop shop for everything under the sun. Traditional telecom companies are selling the cloud....
Cloud applications can be confusing and come with hidden costs. It's our job to make sure we know the ins and outs of our industry so we can pass along tips and tricks that will save your business money. Here are a few little known...
No doubt you’ve heard about Skype for Business Voice. You can use this to replace your current PBX and phone carrier. Still, you want to make that transition as seamless as possible....
Cloud computing can be far more efficient at meeting your computing and storage needs than traditional computing. You can obtain far more computing power and storage at a fraction of the price of traditional computing solutions. It can also come with some setbacks if you're...