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Four people on laptops listening to a speaker in a board meeting, illustrating VoIP and small business collaboration

VoIP and the Future of Small Business Collaboration

Just a few years ago, the small business tech catch phrase was Voice over IP (VoIP). By now VoIP is the standard in telephony. A Computer Economics study shows that by 2009, nearly 60 percent of organizations had adopted VoIP and more than half are investing in VoIP. The initial draw for small businesses to make the switch to VoIP related to cost savings — namely, there are no toll charges or long distance fees […]

An oil rig in the middle of the ocean at sunset, illustrating cloud-ready networks for oil and gas

Cloud-Ready Networks for Oil & Gas Companies

Rather than working with applications installed on servers at various office and site locations, the new cloud computing model promises to allow oil and gas companies to centralize increasing numbers of applications within the cloud, drawing on them as required and even paying for them as they are used. This new model is set to reduce costs drastically and improve the flexibility of moving to new software models. Today, CIOs want to benefit from these […]