When people talk about WebRTC, it’s common to hear things like “Video in your browser. How convenient!” or “It solves the interoperability issues, right? We no longer need to worry about what programs people are using because we can just launch the link in our browser and join the meeting.” I know, it seems simple; and in many cases it …
Will the Collaborative Economy Completely Reimagine Tomorrows Big Business
Today, the largest car rental and hospitality companies are Uber and Airbnb, respectively. What do they have in common? Let’s see— neither of them own physical possessions associated with their service and both have turned a non-performing asset into an incredible revenue source. Don’t be surprised because this is the new model for doing business. People want to rent instead …
Looking at Hybrid Cloud and Security? Welcome to the Matrix
As a strategist, I’ve really enjoyed working on this hybrid cloud series. I love how hybrid cloud acts as an extension of what most organizations already have—providing an extremely effective additional tier to on-site physical storage infrastructure. It’s a highly scalable option for businesses that don’t need to keep all their data physically in-house. And I know that if you’re …
Social Collaboration without Tech boundaries! #Cloudtalk
Hosts Brian Fanzo & Daniel Newman discuss a wide range of topics ranging around the future of work, cloud computing and technologies impact on today’s digital business. The month of October is focused around business needs in the cloud! Follow hashtag #CloudTalk on twitter to join the conversation! #Cloudtalk Tweets This event is sponsored by SAP & PivotPoint.IO. Download SAP’s Newest …
Mobility Driving Business Success
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Major IT Investments for 2016 Prove Mobility Drives Business Success Mobile is the crux of innovation in business today—it isn’t just something to think about, it’s critical to business success. A new survey from SOTI, a provider of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions, shows most organizations get …
Mobile workforce – less talking, more doing
Mobility and the remote workforce are current hot topics buzzing around the modern day water cooler. There’s a ton of talk about the hows and whys of adopting these new approaches to conducting business. However, there is a considerable gap between what is being discussed in meetings, conferences, and webinars, and what is actually being done. Enterprise Mobility Leaves a …
BYOD: Is the Debate Over?
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. For the longest time, we hotly debated whether or not BYOD is good for business. And why not? Few trends in IT have managed to generate as much hype and headache in recent times as BYOD. Over the past few years, the surveys and studies regarding BYOD …
The Enterprise and Hybrid Cloud: What CIOs Need to Know
When it comes to the enterprise and the hybrid cloud, and what CIOs need to know about that, let’s start here: Nine out of 10 IT decision makers say embracing the hybrid cloud for their business is necessary for building a future-ready enterprise. Odds are that those same nine out of 10 CIOs are still struggling to agree on exactly …
What Does a Disruptive CIO Look Like in the Age of Digital Transformation?
To say that the role of a CIO (chief information officer) has become more complicated and challenging today is an understatement, to say the least. Everything in our business space is changing at a mind-boggling speed. Organizations are embracing more agile and nimble business practices. The combined forces of cloud, mobile, big data, analytics, and IoT—as well as many other …
The Public Cloud’s Growth is a Perfect Storm for MSPs
Cloud computing is everywhere, and the public cloud is leading the charge. Businesses can use the public cloud for applications or storage in a shared, accessible network on either a free or pay-per-usage basis. That’s the long way of saying something simple—that the public cloud is the happy home of applications like Google Drive, Dropbox and Salesforce. Many more examples …