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Most IT and business leaders are at least topically aware of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), a cloud-based combination of PBX, conferencing, and collaboration tools, focused into a single interface for the lofty goal of allowing any user to communicate...

For the past several segments, we’ve talked a lot about the technology behind SDWAN. Let’s take a few steps back, and tie it all together. SDWAN can provide businesses with: - Reduced risk through improved resiliency and security. - Optimized expenses by fully...

At the most fundamental level, one of the very few ways you can guarantee optimized technology spend, is to tie each purchase back to specific organizational-level metrics. While obvious to some, many feel overwhelmed once they set to the task, and it often never gets...

Every article in this series will discuss a specific technique, process, or perspective that will help you reduce the amount of time and money that is being spent unnecessarily on technology services. Everyone is well aware of the impact recent events have had on...

Even before the world began responding to COVID-19, organizations of all shapes and sizes were seeking to reduce wasteful spend in every way they could. Any self-regulating organization would naturally move in this direction.  However, with many of a business’...

Not everyone knows how to negotiate buying a car, but most people know not to just walk up on the lot and ask the car salesman to tell you what kind of car to buy. Most people would assume the salesman has an interest in getting you to spend as much money as possible....

Whatever technology services you consume, whether Dial-tone or UCaaS; whether Internet or WAN; whether cloud or premise Infrastructure; whether network or endpoint security, your business needs some combination of any of these services to survive in today’s market....

Businesses of today are experiencing a significant shift in work process, workforce, and environment. Companies are ramping up the pace at which they migrate data off-prem into the cloud. Workers are also moving off-prem at an increasing rate. To top it all off, the...

These days, it would be difficult to claim that virtualization doesn't help contain and control your IT budget.  While  the “cloud” is still ambiguous in many ways, one specific aspect is relatively easy to understand: use one large computer pretending to be many...

Obvious disclaimers out of the way first. On the table right away: we’re going to be talking about SDWAN as an entire category of technology. Your exact mileage will vary depending on the actual SDWAN solution you end up integrating. As of the time of writing, there...