This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Virtual Reality (VR) has been around at the consumer level since the early 90s. The technology lets users explore full-scale, three-dimensional environments while controlling elements by clicking a button. It first emerged as part of the gaming industry, but with recent developments making VR more functional and …
MSPs Have to Focus on Making Tech Easier, Not More Complex
Technology is constantly morphing from complex to simple and back again, usually because systems are used as designed one day and modified to do something else the next. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that can embrace this modern landscape, manage complexity (by simplifying it), and match the pace of business tech innovations are well on their way towards starting off this …
5 Exciting Technologies Launched by Samsung at CES 2016
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Every year, right after we resurface from the holidays, the worlds largest tech companies, media and gadget crazed techies converge on Sin City to show off the future of Technology. This year’s CES in Las Vegas, is looking to be another big year for launching some of …
Improving Productivity by Better Utilizing Wearables
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Wearables offer companies an opportunity to improve productivity—if used correctly. According to a recent UK study, reported in The Telegraph, Goldsmiths, University of London analyzed the impact of wearable technologies in the workplace on employee well-being, productivity, and job satisfaction. They found that worker productivity increased by …
Business Collaboration: Real Time Vs. Asynchronous
Working teams today might be in the same office building or halfway around the world. With a variety of workplace setups making the business industry more diverse all the time, business collaboration tools have become an integral solution for remote collaboration. Small and large companies routinely access these tools, and there are numerous tools that provide all-in-one and one-off solutions …
Lurking in the Shadows: A Case for Embracing Shadow IT
IT departments increasingly face challenges because of the rapid pace of technological advancement. As companies realize the need to maintain pace with mobile devices and cost-effective cloud solutions, they have also started to realize the need for better IT control. Controlling every access point and non-sanctioned application presents difficulties for the average modern firm. When all connectivity was hardware and …
Should MSPs Lead The Charge for Video Conferencing as a Service?
Remember when video used to be a highly equipment-based sale requiring large codecs to be installed in rooms by specialty integrators? Well, that was then. And this is now. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud-based video conferencing services, companies can use desktops and mobile devices along with rented infrastructure to do HD video conferencing. This ease of use has …
How the Digital Economy Is Changing Future Of Business #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. Follow hashtag #CloudTalk on twitter to join the conversation! #Cloudtalk Tweets Live Thursday at Noon ET! Watch the replay below and see the questions for the twitter chat listed below the Blab video! Twitter …
Sensor Data Connecting Mobile Users and Content Seamlessly
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. It’s safe to say that it would be rough existing in today’s society without communicative technology. We need our devices and our data in order to work, to collaborate, and to connect—now more than ever. The Internet of Things (IoT) is making that happen, sharing data between …
Enterprise Video Must Be as Easy as Your Apps
I’ll confess to something I’m sure many of you will relate to: I frequently communicate with my colleagues over Google+ Hangouts. However, I do prefer an enterprise-grade video tool when for important business conversations with a clients. Proprietary conversations, like those with, say, clients or your CFO need to have a high level of security built into them. And that’s …