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 […]
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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 […]
Why Becoming a Partner of Tech Providers Helps Schools
A principal shares how collaborating with a classroom audio company helped her serve her students better.
When I was the Principal of Columbus Park Elementary School in Worcester, MA, I often had companies try to convince me to buy their products. For the most part, I would say yes or no to what they offered, and that would be the end of it. Once, though, my colleagues and I went beyond […]
How IT Channel Pros Use Digital Signage to be Noticed
Signage technology is becoming a weapon of choice in the on-going battle to grasp the attention of consumers.
Late in 2014, researchers in Microsoft’s Canadian subsidiary surveyed 2,000 people to see if the internet, mobile devices, and social media services really were shortening attention spans as widely suspected. The results? On average, study participants could concentrate on one thing for just eight seconds. That’s down from 12 seconds as recently as the year […]
Why We Need Higher Bandwidth in Commercial Buildings
High bandwidth fiber optics via Gigabit Passive Optical Networks are helping meet the bandwidth needs of commercial buildings.
Today, the need to provide higher communications speeds (bandwidth) for smart phones, tablets and portable computers, and Wi-Fi portals, has dramatically increased in all related sectors. This insatiable high bandwidth demand and the ensuing intolerance for slow download and upload speeds has also impacted the home entertainment sector. In it, having higher bandwidth for access […]
