As IT budgets for 2021 are reviewed and adjusted, many organizations are seeing the impact of COVID-19 on their priorities and tech spends. For many organisations, the cost of simply doing business is on the rise. IT Spending Review For many organisations around the world COVID-19 forced an immediate …
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As images of Margaret Keenan, the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer COVID-19 jab, are beamed to every TV on the planet, people and businesses start to plan for a return to some form of normality. Many organisations and businesses, slowly coming out of their remote working hibernation, are tal…
We've always been an advocate of the Directory within an IT system. Our lineage goes back decades to the days of X.500, LDAP, and Novell eDirectory. As cloud adoption continues to rise, we are seeing more and more vendors, including Google, introducing their own directory service, based within "The Cloud". …
Back in October Google announced that it would be switching off it's messaging platform Google Hangouts. Last week Google started making significant changes to Hangouts and Google chat in advance of the upgrade which will start early next year, 2021. For those organisations who are yet to move onto the new G…
Last month we talked about the exciting update to Google G Suite and the introduction of Google Workspace along with it's new single, unified user experience. Unfortunately, many customers are still waiting for this feature to be rolled out within their domain, unaware that the lack of the interface change i…
It's been over four years since Google renamed its collaboration suite from Google Apps for Work to Google G Suite. Today, Google has announced that it will once again be rebranding and renaming Google G Suite to Google Workspace. Back in July Google announced a better way to work, one more in tune w…
In May 2020 Google announced that due to the global COVID-19 pandemic it would be offering it’s video conferencing service Google Meet to everyone for free. This offer meant that anyone with a PC or smartphone device would be able to make free calls of an unlimited length. This offer expires tomorrow, 30th…
It's not clear when the current COVID-19 crisis will be over, Dr Anthony Fauci, one of the top US public health experts warns that it could take most of 2021 or longer to get the pandemic under control and that it is "unlikely" the virus can ever be fully eradicated. However, we all hope that one day, the vi…
Many small and mid-size businesses rely heavily on contacts stored on their mobile phones. But what happens if for some reason you lose a contact or they are accidentally deleted due to a faulty application, it can be quite traumatic, to say the least. In fact, does anyone know they partners mobile number of…
All over the world individuals have been forced to "self-isolate" during what we now call the lockdown. During this time many of us depended on tools such as Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams in order to communicate with work colleagues, friends and even family. It was impressive to see how quickly indivi…
