Business IT

Construction is among the world’s oldest human activities, dating to the Stone Age when our earliest ancestors used stones, wooden poles, straw and animal skins to build shelters. However, 21^st-century construction is a decidedly high-tech endeavor.

Desktop management has always been among the leading challenges facing IT managers, and the job just keeps getting more difficult as workforces become increasingly distributed. The time, expense and effort required to troubleshoot problems, update applications and patch operating systems across remote and office environments is a significant burden for in-house IT teams.

Surveys find that up to 80 percent of organizations now use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) for business communications. That’s not particularly surprising — it’s a proven and reliable technology that has been providing flexible, creative and cost-efficient communication and collaboration options for going on three decades.

As businesses around the world continue the transition to decentralized organizational structures, they are increasingly reliant on software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) to keep everything connected. IDC analysts say more than 95 percent of enterprise organizations have deployed some form of SD-WAN or plan to do so within the next two years.