The most successful manufacturing companies over the years have been those that have enthusiastically embraced change and technology. The transition to a lean manufacturing model within the past few decades is driving higher profitability by giving organizations a real-time glimpse into production, supply, warehousing and delivery.
Read MoreThe cloud has been one of the enablers of the Web 2.0 revolution. When web pages became more like applications around the turn of the millennium, keeping data remotely rather than locally became a much more viable option, at least in terms of the ease with which it could be accessed.
Read MoreIn business, success flows from ideas and innovation. But it also requires the means to execute new plans efficiently, effectively, and rapidly. Do that, and you won’t just satisfy customers and develop deeper, stronger relationships. You’ll do it better, and sooner, than the competition.
Read MoreMarc Andreesen famously said in 2011 that “software is eating the world.” I believe that’s only the case because of underlying changes to the hardware that’s facilitated it.
Read MoreThe cloud has been one of the most popular buzzwords in computing for some time now, and it’s one that has plenty of reason to deserve the attention it has been getting.
Read MoreConnecting your office networks used to involve choosing between a host of different packet-switching and frame-based technologies that could take data over much longer distances than the internal Ethernet system was capable of.
Read MoreThanks to ubiquitous corporate Ethernet and WiFi, we can happily share files with other users in the office, and make use of network resources almost as if they are running locally.
Read MoreThe digitization of health and medical data holds great promise in battling against an epidemic, but the key to success lies in the ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time.
Read MoreEthernet used to just be the technology for the local area network. Once you reached the boundaries of a particular building, a different technology would need to be employed for connections between distant buildings and to the outside world in general.
Read MoreNew networking generations, and the frequent revolutions in broadband performance, are always stated in terms of bandwidth. But raw throughput is not the whole story of network performance.
Read MoreThe Boston Celtics are one of professional basketball’s most storied franchises and have won 17 league championships. However, collaborating and communicating between the practice facility and administrative headquarters proved to be a challenge that needed to be addressed.
Read MoreMostly unnoticed until recently, big data is now on the radar of almost all small and medium-sized companies (SMBs). It’s catching their attention because it offers a cost-effective way to mine every single bit of data they collect on a daily basis.
Read MorePatient portals – secure online websites that give patients convenient, 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere over an Internet connection – are a fast-growing trend.
Read MoreTelemedicine leverages modern communications technologies to enable physicians to conduct examinations from a distance, bringing the expertise of trained personnel and specialists to patients to locations beyond their physical location.
Read MoreAs healthcare organizations increasingly adopt mobile technologies, they face real challenges related to security, connectivity, and scalability. The addition of mobile devices to an organization’s technology infrastructure means increased vulnerabilities.
Read MoreMobile technology is being leveraged to help improve the way healthcare is administered and to help patients take charge of their wellness.
Read MoreElectronic health records (EHRs) enable medical staff and healthcare professionals to reduce the number of medical errors and increase patient safety.
Read MoreHealthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Today’s strained healthcare system presents a variety of challenges for healthcare providers.
Read MoreThe need for faster network speeds (referred to as “bandwidth”) has been growing so quickly that these speeds are now doubling every three years – a staggering statistic we see with our own business customers.
Read MoreSecure, high-speed networks may offer many benefits to modern IT environments in the public sector, but there’s a flipside to the rising status of networks: Managers and technology practitioners find themselves in an ongoing struggle to keep up with bandwidth and reliability demands while simultaneously addressing budget realities.
Read MoreAccording to Grey Matter Research, more than 17 million non-churchgoers visited church websites in the past year. “Churches are natural places of interaction,” said Scott McConnell, LifeWay Research Director.
Read MoreWith 112 rooms serving a mix of business and pleasure travelers, Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham West Palm Beach caters to its guests with the comforts of home and the amenities of an office. Many of their guests stay for extended periods of time and reliable phone service, Internet connection, and cable TV are of the utmost importance for providing an enjoyable stay.
Read MoreTechnically, dark fiber is optical fiber that’s not active. Most commonly it refers to optical fiber cables that were installed in urban or suburban areas in the hope that a demand would arise, allowing the company that owns the fiber to sell access.
Read MoreIt’s a transformative time in government information technology. Public sector organizations are moving to the cloud. At the same time, seemingly everything that can be virtualized is quickly heading in that direction.
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