Within the seemingly incomprehensible maze of pipes and equipment of refineries, operators use decades-old technology to monitor and manage everyday tasks. But when developing an IoT and mobility strategy for these complex environments, don’t overlook where employees fit in — because automating workflow is as much about people as it is about things. That’s one…

Newsflash — just because something can be delivered “as a Service” doesn’t necessarily mean that it should be. Desktops are a case in point: Enterprises frequently migrate to Desktops as a Service (DaaS) because they reasonably assume that anything delivered from the cloud is going to be less expensive than what their IT departments can…

When organizations adopt Microsoft Office 365, they usually have a specific use case in mind. Perhaps they simply want to rid themselves of the burden of managing on-premises Exchange servers. Or, they may be attracted to the enhanced collaboration and communication capabilities offered by cloud tools such as OneDrive, SharePoint and Skype for Business. In…

Cybersecurity professionals have a mixed record of success in dealing with a security landscape that is becoming increasingly complex and dangerous. We’ve done a solid job of protecting the network perimeter — keeping out people who we don’t want to gain access to our networks. But we haven’t done a particularly good job of taking…

The split between on-premises and cloud technologies isn’t new. Ask anyone who’s been in the world of computing for a while, and you’ll hear the topics of today as echoes from the past – think back to client-server or mainframe-and-dumb-terminal in the world of computing, or centrex and off-premises extension in the world of voice…

Data is your organization’s lifeblood. Can you afford to entrust it to an outsider? It’s a reasonable question, one that just about every enterprise asks when considering Software as a Service (SaaS) backup. But I believe a better question is, can you afford not to? Here’s why. For starters, a SaaS solution for backup eliminates…