In 2014, Dr Jim Minifie of the Grattan Institute warned small and medium businesses (SMBs) were missing the mobile, social and data revolution. According to the Small Business Administration, small businesses produced 46 percent of America’s GDP in 2008 (the most recent year for which data is available). With this monster share [...]
Two-in-one laptops—also known as convertibles or hybrids—offer the power of a laptop with the flexibility of a tablet. Whether you’re managing teams, traveling for work, or building a business from your living room, these devices are compact, high-performing, and ideal for multitasking. But with so many choices on the market, [...]
Work practices have undergone a revolution in the digital age. Networked devices and more mobility have blurred the line between work and home as vast numbers of people perform their jobs across multiple platforms, often far from the office. An accompanying phenomenon is the bring your own device (BYOD) policy [...]
Choosing the right cloud service has become a major dilemma for the modern small business. At the forefront of cloud technology, Amazon, Google and Microsoft are aggressively competing against each other for a bigger slice of the market. This fierce competition has resulted in three very diverse and competent cloud [...]
Cloud-based technologies are revolutionizing teaching and learning, and Microsoft’s Office 365 Education offers sophisticated tools to do just that. Office 365 comes with a lot of the usual Microsoft software offerings, now bundled together in a subscription-based model. However, more importantly for school CIOs and IT education decision-makers, Office 365 [...]
You only need look at the explosive growth of services like Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce for evidence of the business trend towards cloud computing. This raises a fundamental question: how can a business maximize the cloud’s benefits while minimizing or eliminating its drawbacks? Perhaps the biggest advantage the cloud [...]
Google first showed us offices could be fun. But between the playground slides and the ping-pong tables, the tech giant’s interior can be a little daunting for those not accustomed to a fun-filled office space. Fortunately, office design has matured. Research and tech are now coming together to make intelligent, [...]
When ideas and knowledge can easily be shared both within and outside an organization, pooling skills can create much better outcomes. Given that contractors and teleworkers make up a big part of the SMB workforce, it’s easy to see why collaboration software has become so popular for connecting people and [...]
Local data center, hybrid cloud or cloud? As an enterprise IT manager, you have an unprecedented amount of choice for your storage needs, but finding the best solution still requires a good deal of research. Enterprise storage has been all the rage over the past few years as companies cope [...]
The move to a community care model as a way to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes has been a broad trend in healthcare in recent years. However, this raises a question for health providers: how do you best manage operations in this newer and more decentralized environment? Careful thought [...]