Despite common perceptions, cutting costs isn’t the primary reason businesses are choosing cloud these days. The other major advantages are the agility and scalability cloud brings, enabling organisations to quickly respond to business demand. The combination of benefits is driving both IT and lines of business to rely on cloud …

If you’ve kept your eye on the news this week I’m sure you’ll have seen a lot on the significant drop in stock markets across the globe due to China’s fluctuating markets. Dubbed ‘black Monday’, China’s stock markets lost 8.5 per cent of its value by the end of the …

Three new DiskStations are available from the NAS vendor

We hear a lot about business functionality being delivered as a service. But what about the hardware side of life? We’re in a world where we still rely heavily on up to date hardware. The Internet of Things alone will be a gigantic tapestry of devices, we are regularly told, …

Small businesses have traditionally settled for low-quality consumer-grade Wi-Fi solutions, according to Ruckus Wireless. The firm believes that these solutions cause management to become a burden and reliability and performance issues to affect the productivity of workers. So, why are businesses still using these products? “Wi-Fi connectivity has become an …

Cloud computing has been one of the largest changes the channel has faced, arguably since the introduction of the internet. In a little under ten years, the cloud has come to dominate much of the IT industry. In 2011, just half of firms used some form of cloud services, compared …

The managed print services (MPS) market is seeing impressive growth and is still maturing. This is no surprise, as it allows companies to save two of the most precious assets: time and money. With strong pick-up among larger enterprises – recent research by IT analysis firm Quocirca found that around …

As we receive more and more content on IT Channel Expert focussed around service offerings, we thought it would only be right to dedicate a whole month to service and outsourcing. So, to kick off this month’s theme we sat down with Shaun Lynn, CEO of Inventory as a Service …

Despite the latest figures showing that 20 per cent of UK business turnover is generated by eCommerce sales, Powa Technologies is warning firms that they still need to adapt. Businesses must not think a simple online offering will cause these sales to continuously grow, says industry veteran and Powa Technologies …

Effective communication is a topic that has been discussed and argued for as long as people have worked together as a team. Ancient hunters sitting around the campfire probably discussed how they could achieve better results hunting. Communication is a very natural human need, however it can be very energy …