Technology allows automation of various repetitive processes, reduces costs, and helps you be more efficient, provide better customer service, and sell more. Whether you’re starting a business and considering which pieces of hardware you need to buy, or you are simply updating your company’s existing equipment, at some point you will struggle to decide what […]
Category: Hardware
Why Small Businesses Should Consider Bare Metal Cloud Services
Cloud services are essential for any modern business with significant online activity and storage needs. With the introduction of bare metal cloud services, every small business owner should reconsider using traditional cloud services. Traditional cloud services involve storing information on virtual servers that users share. Bare metal cloud services include storing data on physical servers […]
Greentec CEO Perrotta: Why we’re partnering with Glentel
In the fight to reduce climate change, Canadian mobile phone retailer Glentel Inc. announces partnership with Cambridge-based recycler Greentec, to responsibly dispose of old phones across Canada This year alone, 31 million Canadians are in possession of a smartphone, meaning half of these individuals are likely to be in the market for a new device. […]
What tech pros will spend on IT in 2020 — and where they’re struggling
Eighty-eight per cent of businesses say their technology budgets will stay the same or grow over the next year according to new research from Spiceworks, but but tech buyers at its SpiceWorld conference said they are juggling purchase decisions along with difficult communications issues with senior leadership and a quest to improve their personal brand. […]
How Joshua Jackson’s acting career led him to launch Liquid Media, a B2B entertainment brand
For all the enterprise product announcements being made, Dell Technologies World holds little of the drama you’d find on Dawson’s Creek, The Affair or Fringe, but if a good story unfolds, Joshua Jackson is ready to provide the technology and services to bring it to life. The actor and co-founder/chairman of Liquid Media Group was […]
What it takes to overcome the ‘last mile of lost productivity in workplace collaboration tools
Collaboration has taken on multiple dimensions for businesses of every size and industry. There are a number of key drivers fueling the accelerating demand for collaborative solutions, ranging from the rise in remote workers and virtual office models, to advanced technology tools and infrastructures that enable high-level collaboration in virtually any environment on any device. […]
A quick guide to Apple’s latest iPad Pro and MacBook Air for enterprise customers
Tim Cook may prefer the term “professional users” to “corporate” or even “business” customers, but there was little doubt Apple’s launch of a new iPad Pro and MacBook Air on Tuesday was aimed squarely at the enterprise. Apple launched the updated MacBook Air, iPad Pro as well as a new Mini from a theater in […]
Western Digital brings analytics to R&D processes as it reinvents the hard disk drive
Most organizations use analytics software to better understand their customers or refine their sales strategy. Western Digital is using it build the next generation of hard drives that will be used in businesses all over the world. Based in San Jose, Calif., Western Digital has already managed to achieve a number of world firsts, including […]
CDW expands Apple at Work to Canada to help businesses meet employee’s IT expectations
CDW and Apple are expanding their efforts to ease the deployment Mac- and iOS-based technology products into the enterprise by bringing the Apple at Work program to Canada, following its introduction in the U.S. earlier this year. Apple at Work is part of a larger initiative by the iPhone maker to demonstrate the security, ease […]
Unyte builds a B2B clientele for meditation tools that make use of VR and gaming elements
For Jason Tafler, the road to mindfulness began with a near-death experience, but the company he created afterwards, Unyte, is breathing new life into meditation practice with digital technology and even virtual reality experiences. Using a biofeedback device known as the iom2 developed through the acquisition of a technology firm called Wild Divine, Unyte monitors an […]
The new Rackspace CMO is ready to elevate the brand’s ‘fanatical support’ messaging
The concept of ‘fanatical support’ may be one of the best known brand attributes at Rackspace, but its new chief marketing officer wants to make the managed service provider equally known for providing an overall more radical experience with cloud computing. Earlier this month Rackspace, which is headquartered in San Antonio, Tex., announced Mark Bunting […]
Twitter chat recap, part II: #ComplicitFilm & the human cost of our devices
Heather White, Complicit’s filmmaker, joined B2B News Network CEO, Jen Evans, to continue the discussion about what roles supply chain management and corporate governance have. Shot over 2½ years beneath the Chinese government’s radar, the documentary Complicit exposes the human costs of global outsourcing through the lives of a group of young factory workers poisoned […]
Twitter Chat Recap: #ComplicitFilm and the human cost of our devices
With unprecedented access & undercover footage, Complicit offers a rare, intimate, and devastating glimpse into the daily existence of a group of teens who are paying with their health and lives to make the devices we can’t live without. Heather White, the courageous filmmaker of Complicit, joined B2B News Network CEO, Jen Evans, to share […]
NetApp EVP offers an inside look at how a sales shift contributed to the storage firm’s turnaround
For Henri Richard, starting his job at NetApp during the enterprise storage technology firm’s annual sales kickoff was something of a double-edged sword. “It was my first exposure to the company, and on the one hand, it gave me a really good feel for the organization at large,” he told B2B News Network in a […]
Why Apple is making a bigger effort to meet enterprise IT expectations
It probably won’t be among the themes of its annual developers’ conference or mentioned at the next iPhone launch, but 2018 could be the year Apple technologies become an even larger presence in enterprise environments. Last Fall, Apple quietly began forming close relationships with IT services firms and resellers who could bring not only its […]
How PwC fosters creative problem-solving in its growing number of Digital Experience Centres
PwC will be spending the next several months continuing to open a series of Digital Experience Centres in the U.S. and the U.K. that bring together interdisciplinary groups of experts to solve corporate challenges using virtual reality, the Internet of Things and more. The consulting firm officially opened its Toronto Digital Experience Centre on Tuesday, […]
What Meg Whitman accomplished at HPE, and what its future holds without her
This is the story as I heard it: Meg Whitman, then the CEO of eBay, was being walked through the user experience design of an early version of its online auction service. In other words, she literally went through the process of trying to put an item up for bid, and saw how many steps […]
What a Broadcom-Qualcomm merger could mean for the enterprise
The proposed acquisition of Qualcomm by rival Broadcom for $130 billion may not just be a way to own the 5G wireless market — it could also create a formidable player in the enterprise networking space to ensure mobile applications meet performance expectations. Broadcom on Monday confirmed early reports from Reuters and others that it […]
Celestica CEO Explains the Mission Behind the Firm’s Brand Transformation
Celestica International Inc. on Tuesday will release what executives described as its most significant brand overhaul since 2007, positioning the electronics manufacturing services firm as the enabler of innovation among companies from its native Canada to Silicon Valley. The rebranding includes a new logo that says goodbye to the flaming red comet that has served […]
How B2B Companies Outsource Managed Security Services
As security staff gets increasingly overwhelmed preparing for compliance audits and managing security incidents, B2B companies have started to ask about outsourcing managed security services. A recent report from analyst firm IDC found that Canadian organizations will become more reliant on third-party SaaS and managed security services by 2019. And Canadian chief information security officers (CISOs) will […]