The green technology landscape continues to evolve beyond being simply “green”. It has grown to encompass a broad range of high performance attributes, including the desire for spaces that are resource efficient and sustainable, but are also active, human-centric, and even resilient. These attributes reflect a growing attention to the status of the building occupant, […]
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3 Areas the AV Industry Can Improve on in 2017
The AV industry can always get better. Tim Albright offers three ways it can improve in 2017.
There was a significant amount of negativity toward 2016. Yes, some great stars passed from our existence, and it lasted up to the last day of the year. The AV industry even got in on the “2016 is the worst year ever” with a New Year’s Eve performance by Mariah Carey that went up in […]
University of Charleston Innovation Center Video Walls
Just this month, the University of Charleston in W. Va. opened its all new Innovation Center, a dedicated space for students to enjoy live sporting events and connect with their peers. The Tech Decision During the building process, the University decided to incorporate innovative technology that would truly establish an engaging environment. To do so, […]
How To Reduce Costs and Improve Efficiency in Your IT Infrastructure
Rather than trimming costs incrementally, look for larger saving with an overall data management solution.
There’s saving money and there’s really saving a lot of money. The distinctions aren’t always clear to budget enthusiasts who may sometimes enjoy drilling a little too deep to achieve arbitrary percentages of cost reductions by only trying to make the tiniest of trims here and there. For instance, it’s not hard to thinly slice […]
How Video Can Be Used as a Mainstream Business Tool
According to data from Commercial Integrator, video will make up a whopping 74 percent of all internet traffic by 2017.
As you no doubt have noticed, video is already becoming a mainstream business practice and we’re seeing savvy brands in both the B2B and the B2C space use video in innovative ways. Why the popularity of video? Low-cost tools and software for deploying video technology have made it easier to effectively integrate these innovative real-time […]
What is Cyber Security?
Infographic from GTreasury attempts to shed some light on the terms and issues around cyber security.
What is cyber security? That’s the question that GTreasury, a company that offers a Treasury Management System (TMS), attempts to answer in a recent infographic. First, a primer on what some of the terms surrounding cyber security mean: Spam is electronic junk mail. The term refers to unsolicited, and often times unwanted, email. Spear Phishing […]
4 Unified Communications Trends in 2017
Today’s workplace is constantly transforming, and now more than ever there’s a need for SMBs to offer collaborative solutions that provide substantial and consistent value and seamless communications for employees and customers.
Unified communications solutions are becoming more relevant as the remote workforce increases and offices begin to collaborate on a global level. Here are a few trends we expect to see as we look ahead to 2017. 1. Why is it important that a UC application be completely integrated? In theory, unified communications platforms grant businesses […]
What’s the Trouble with Cloud-Powered Hardware?
There could be an expiration date on the hardware that you purchase attached to a services agreement.
I’ve long been a fan of electronic doodads, and as I’ve gotten older that’s made me a bit of a hardware historian. I think it’s the rapid evolution of computers and electronics that has fascinated me, almost to the point of obsession. Having a personal gadget museum isn’t exactly a “normal” thing (listen to ChannelPro […]
Here’s Why SANs May Be Going Extinct
Affordable software and appliance product may be leading to SANs becoming obsolete.
With software-defined storage solutions and appliance-based products like Microsoft’s Azure StorSimple hybrid cloud storage promising increased affordability, the future of traditional storage area networks is in question. Or is it? “Software-defined storage is beginning to open up a whole new venue for [people] to provide pretty good virtualization capabilities, and also to do a pretty […]
How One Company Is Moving Toward IT and Bringing AV Along
Interview with Kramer executives reveals how the company sees big opportunities on the IT side while staying true to AV roots.
It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes or Woodward and Bernstein to notice that something is up with Kramer. The AV solutions manufacturer appears restless and ambitious. It’s not just that Kramer, which had done little more than dabble in automation, launched at InfoComm 2016 Kramer Control aiming to virtually eliminate the need for programming with the […]
