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Cloud Services: What every restaurant owner needs to know – Part 3

Cloud services are having a big impact on the way many businesses function, and restaurants are not missing out on the opportunity to streamline day-to-day operations.

SDN – Enabling The Next Generation IPVPN

Simply put, broadband and Ethernet provide the foundation of the new network.

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How “Bring Your Own Device” Is Revolutionizing the Workplace

Enterprises of all shapes and sizes are looking at ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) policies for their employees. But as with many disruptive innovations, there are reasons to be cautious. Understanding and overcoming those stumbling blocks will be crucial for enterprises hoping to make the most of the potential of BYOD.

Landlines Improve Business Mobility

Most of us are well accustomed to packing up our laptop and using it to access documents and data when not in the office. But until recently, our business phone remained firmly tied to our office.

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The Network Gets Strategic

When during the last four years that enterprises starting thinking differently about their networks?

The Strategic CIO: Broker, Integrator or a Hybrid?

Today’s CIO is increasingly positioned as a strategic partner to the business, on an equal footing to other C-level positions within the organization, and they are also expected to move fast—at the speed of business.

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The Internet of Things: Innovation to Improve Guest Experience and Enhance Operations

From its humble beginnings in computer science laboratories of the 1960s to its explosion in the mid-1990s as a cornerstone of culture and commerce, the Internet has changed the way the world works, communicates, and entertains itself. Now, the Internet is moving beyond the realm of computers, tablets and smartphones.

The Current State of Network Connectivity SLAs

For most businesses, network connectivity is critical. Downtime costs money, reduces productivity, and can even hurt your reputation. We polled 235 professionals to find out if they currently have SLAs with their vendors

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Infographic - Networking Best Practices for Today and the Future

In today’s digital landscape, ensuring network scalability and performance is top of mind for businesses across a variety of industries.

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How Investing in Broadband Can Improve Your Business’s Bottom Line

You might think you have high speed Internet, and your provider may boast about how fast it is. But is it fast enough to be called “broadband?” Maybe not, and that slow connection can hurt your business.

An Engaged Patient is a Healthier Patient: Connecting Providers and Patients with New Technologies – Part 3

Video has been around much longer than patient portal web sites, healthcare apps and consumable wearables. But, as with “how-to” videos online, video has become an important format for educating patients

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Challenges and Trends Impacting America’s Top CIOs

There were several key takeaways from the NCS Madison CIO Strategy Meeting in Chicago, including popularity of cloud infrastructure.

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WiFi Analytics: How It Helps Target a Customer Base

There’s a wealth of valuable consumer information readily available for retailers who install WiFi networks with sophisticated data capture and analytics capabilities.

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The Evolution of Network Services

Enterprises are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of their networks—how what used to be considered a tactical necessity has evolved into a strategic asset. They now recognize that high-performance services are core to their business strategy—that is, their ability to quickly share data internally, distribute data externally and collaborate globally.

The next-gen traveler has arrived. Are you ready to host?

Like virtually everything in our contemporary lifestyles, the travel and hospitality industry has been radically disrupted by digital technology and the Internet.

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The Strategic CIO: Proud, Accomplished and Burdened with Choices

While today’s CIOs typically enjoy a highly strategic role within the enterprise and a prized position on the CEOs’ executive teams, that distinction comes with a price. You must deliver a high quality customer and employee experience, allocate capital to maximize productivity, and realize the advantages of new technology – all while optimizing a budget with no to low-single-digit growth.

Software Defined Networking: Beyond the Hype

Software defined networking (SDN) is in the news just about every day. Is that much happening with SDN, or is all the news mostly hype?

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An Engaged Patient is a Healthier Patient: Connecting Providers and Patients with New Technologies – Part 2

Today, we are seeing an explosion of personal, wearable, or otherwise easily accessible devices and apps used to track activity and fitness levels, monitor health problems and even diagnose disease.

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Cloud Services: What every restaurant owner needs to know – Part 2

The cloud’s low barrier to entry and “pay as you go” pricing structure enable smaller restaurants to realize similar economies of scale with minimal ramp up time and no capital outlay.

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[Infographic] Which Voice Solution? Up to You

When it comes to choosing a phone solution, there are many different options available for your business.

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7 Ways Cloud Computing Makes You Better at Your Job

Cloud computing is changing the way people do business. A company that has rapid access to data is one that can react quickly to changes and new opportunities. By giving the business teams access to data fast, they can adjust business strategies and approaches.

7 Tactics to Reduce your Data Center’s Power Draw

Our never-ending hunger for more data and bandwidth has resulted in an unintended consequence – a substantial increase in global energy consumption.

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Expanding small businesses need latest technologies

Many small or medium-sized businesses (SMBs) just starting to expand into additional locations give little thought to technology. They install whatever phone system, Internet connection and data-storage servers are readily available without researching new technology options.