Cloud computing is about to revolutionise the way that companies do business in the UK according to recent research from the independent analysts at Gartner, which predicts that Britain is on the cusp of a widespread adoption of the cloud.

UCC vendors should closely watch Google and its ever expanding suite of UCC services, warn industry pundits at Frost & Sullivan. California-based search and advertising services giant Google has built a reputation for deploying aggressive acquisitive strategies towards the domination of new markets.

A new study commissioned by Kcom, part of the KCOM Group, reveals that network management is often overlooked in IT planning, reducing the benefits and true value that innovative IT can deliver. According to the research, despite their importance to business applications and productivity tools, only 42% of corporate networks are running at optimal performance.

With the roll out of Next Generation Access (NGA) products based on high speed fibre networks already underway in Fibre to the Cabinet and Fibre to the Premise variants, Comms Dealer has conducted an extensive overview on the implications of NGA for resellers and end users.

The lines have officially been blurred between home and the workplace as UK enterprises embrace the business opportunities offered by social media, according to new research commissioned by Open Text Corporation.

More and more workers are expected to log on to view work email and documentation while on holiday to keep abreast of important deals and to avoid coming back to a built-up workload and a backlog of emails. And the week before staff take a holiday is one of the most stressful in the entire year, according to a report.

Service providers must embrace cloud services and bundle them into their enterprise solutions, says Analysys Mason

Service providers must embrace cloud services and bundle them into their solutions for small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as large enterprises, according to the latest report from Analysys Mason.

Intent on boosting revenue growth potential, telecommunication companies are tapping into Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications services, according to Yiru Zhong, Frost & Sullivan Analyst for ICT in Europe.

Research of 1,006 UK office workers, by Opinion Matters on behalf of Plantronics, has found that 84% are more reliant on conference calls to do business than ever before - spending on average three hours more a week on the phone than they did 12 months ago.

You might think that the systematic changes now churning the mobile industry are making it an uncertain place to be. But you'd be wrong. For example, HSC's ability to sideline doubt and champion change has assured its future growth and stability, says Business Manager Bob Sweetlove.