Summer Solstice is this week, on Friday, June 21. It’s the longest day of the year. Many cultures celebrate it as Midsummer, and it is the best time to familiarize yourself with two key trends impacting businesses of all types and sizes. 1. Increasing capacity — Big Data is a powerful concept — if you have the network capacity to deal with it, that is. Thanks to data centers and cloud computing, businesses of all sizes have the ability to reap the potential benefits of mountains... read more

Like in nearly every other industry, the shift to digital data from paper documents has placed new strains on law offices. Legal service providers must address specific challenges of managing electronic data to run successful, thriving practices. For example, eDiscovery tools are an efficient way for legal practices to acquire digital information during the research aspect of litigation. This is the beginning of the new way of organizing and managing legal data, but it can place bandwidth burden... read more

Big Data is certainly a 21st century problem. As the story goes, in the early 1980s Bill Gates said, “640K ought to be enough for anyone.” Apparently Gates didn’t actually say that, but that doesn’t matter. The point is that merely 30 years ago, industry leaders were discussing data in terms of 640K. Now, enterprises store terabytes of data and need networks capable of up to 100G. That’s 104,857,600K! Due to incredible advances in IT, businesses everywhere now have nearly inconceivable amounts o... read more

Americans lag behind other countries in number of vacation days per year. Even those who get vacation days don’t use them all. In 2012, people left nine vacation days unused on average. There are many reasons for this trend. For instance, some people are worried about job security; if they go out of town, will they still seem indispensible? Others simply have too much on their plate to indulge in time off.tw telecom will help you go on vacation this summer.Peace of mind... read more

IT constantly requires more bandwidth. Thanks to sophisticated data-collecting techniques and vast databases, nearly every company and organization has to deal with Big Data. They rely on complex applications housed in central data centers to perform complicated calculations. The fast adoption of teleconferencing and the ubiquity of online video demand exacting performance. Everything points to needing more bandwidth. Often this is a limiting factor, so companies implement Class of Service to pr... read more