Written by: Clear Computing Ltd
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The advancement of the bandwidth available to both home and business users at cost- effective rates mean technologies such as VoIP and ‘cloud computing’ will enhance functionality and save you money.
Top five IT trends for 2010
VoIP – there are massive benefits to VoIP systems, not least being the saving on the cost of calls and the ability to have a managed phone system giving you flexibility to route, record and integrate your calls into other systems.
Cloud computing - an Internet-based way of working where users access applications through a web browser rather than hosting software locally on their own PC. This technique can provide a cost effective way of implementing flexible solutions with fault tolerance.
Green IT solutions – the question is: can you afford not to look at greener solutions? When considering the purchase of new equipment, what is the cost of running the technology and how long is its life cycle? When you review these criteria it can be more cost effective to pay the slightly higher cost for a greener system as the saving in your electricity bill will more than offset this. As well as costs, you have to consider time: holding meetings using video conferencing allows staff to reduce travelling time.
Virtualisation – virtualisation can dramatically improve the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organisation. Rather than having a ‘one server one role’ model, virtualisation allows you to host multiple operating systems on the same hardware to create a balanced environment and also adds fault tolerance across physical hardware.
Social networking – keeping in touch and informing your clients has never been simpler with the use of networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and so on. If your company does not have a presence on sites of this ilk then you are missing out on massive amount of free promotion.
For further information please contact Barny Hall from Clear Computing on
01903 786702,
info@clear-computing.co.uk
www.clear-computing.co.uk
