Tag Archives: Opinion

Along with all of the new features and improvements, Microsoft is introducing changes to how updates will be delivered. There have been growing concerns around these changes and the introduction of Windows Update for Business (WUB). Regardless of what you may have heard, these changes are not all bad. Microsoft …

Maggie Zaboura looks ahead to this year's PCR Woman of the Year Awards

Support for Windows Server 2003 has officially ended today and in the last month, it has been covered as a small-scale apocalypse. 61 per cent of companies still run 2003 servers, which from now on are exposed to security breaches and compliance concerns. Additionally, the $600 per-server fee for extended …

Iland recently hosted a reception and panel discussion for senior IT executives at the Soho Hotel as part of London Technology Week. Our keynote speaker was William Fellows, Research Vice President of 451 Research. William talked about the key business and technology issues that were likely to play a large …

It seems like ‘virtual reality’ (or VR as it’s commonly called) has been around forever, doesn’t it? The technology first took a stab at the mainstream with gaming as its catalyst in the early-1990s, when Virtuality began installing it’s machines in arcades. It was like The Future had come early, …

Vendor says future workforce will use smart offices with invisible computer screens, NOT remote working

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), the handy mnemonic we use to signal allowing staff to use their own mobile devices, not company ones, has become pervasive for a number of reasons. However, if you stick BYOD into any search engine, you get headlines like these: ‘BYOD leading to increasingly risky …

Selling supplemental services to SMBs may not sound particularly glamorous, however the provisioning of add on services that are linked to your managed services platform, such as level 1 support, assistance with help desk tickets or remote monitoring, can be incredibly lucrative for the MSP. In order to reduce IT …

Vendor's UK assistant general manager Nelson Qiao talks about the wireless opportunity

Intel's Anna Cheng reveals her day at Sweden's Dreamhack festival