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Baby Steps to Working in the Cloud

When you work in business, it’s often against your nature to jump in with both feet. Cautious, measuring up the pros and cons. Yes, you go with your instincts but you want all the facts before you make a firm decision. It’s the same when we are embracing anything new or making a big decision, [...]

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The Cloud is Definitely Not a Passing Fad

Last week my blog focused on the adoption of cloud computing among mainstream hardware manufacturers. Many companies are looking to sell cloud companion services alongside their devices, bringing in vital extra revenue as profit margins fall. But what about businesses who need those services? Are they spending more as a result? Banks are reluctant to [...]

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E-discovery and Why Data Retrieval Should be a Vital Feature of Hosted E-mail

If you’re a regular visitor to the MessageStream blog, you’ll have heard me mention the phenomenal growth of cloud computing many times before. The potential to save money whilst improving business efficiency has really captured the imagination of SMEs and, as a result, cloud computing services such as Hosted E-mail seems to be one area [...]

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How Mobile Web is Blurring the Lines of Technology

Identifying trends and how technology will change in a new year is as much a tradition as promising to lose a few pounds. But how’s this for a resolution? Why don’t you aim to make your business IT as streamlined as hopefully your silhouette will be by December? Over the past twelve months one trend [...]

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How the Cloud Could Save Hardware Manufacturers in 2012

Considering the mountain of shiny new gadgets paraded at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the technology industry is booming. Well – in some ways, electronics manufacturers are doing reasonably well, but the gadgets aren’t entirely responsible for that. Manufacturers of televisions and computers are suffering in a [...]

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Capacity Planning: Why it’s Easier From the Cloud

If yours is one of the many businesses that spent December struggling to keep up with a deluge of Christmas business you might be using January to take a well earned break.  You might be revelling in the slowdown in business, pleased to have a chance to catch your breath… or you might be one [...]

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Small but Beautiful Formed – Why SMEs Prosper with Hosted Exchange

Small businesses represent a growth market in the UK business landscape. Almost a fifth of all firms in the country are SMEs. They work so well because they are built on drive, passion and determination. In a difficult financial climate a SME is streamlined and flexible enough to weather the storm. Their size is a [...]

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The Death of E-mail?

Barely a week goes by when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t in the news promoting a new feature on his social networking website. His most recent high-profile, controversial statement came in November last year. He branded email “slow and formal” – while promoting a revision to the Facebook messaging system, of course. Hyperbole or fact? [...]

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Painting the Sky Green

I’ve already written a couple of posts about the new year and new beginnings so I’m wary about stretching the analogy too far but there is one important area of new year’s resolutions left to touch on… those that are less about you or your business and more about helping the world; finding ways for [...]

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A Quick History of the Cloud…

If there is one industry that seems to enjoy jargon it is the IT industry. ASP and SaaS along with intergalactic computers, networks and plugins. It can make it difficult for you, as a customer, to understand what you’re signing up for and what you might need. One of the biggest hurdles between the industry [...]

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