Jola Cloud Solutions' Blog

Data analytics and cloud computing, two of the hottest IT trends of the moment, are combining to fuel growth in the cloud analytics market, new figures have suggested.

Starting a business is exciting. It is you, your business plan, your investment and in many cases a few trusted and experience staff members. Money is tight and the focus is bringing in early revenues to stay in the black and grow as planned.

Design agencies with up to 20 employees located both on business parks and in city centres are turning to Jola for their connectivity. They use powerful machines and software such as the Adobe Creative Suite to create materials in PDF to be emailed to clients for review and when approved send large print-ready files and specifications to the printers. Some use cloud proofing software such as RedPen to allow clients to log into their design work and mark up any changes in the proofing process. To do all of this they need a fast and reliable Internet circuit.

Over the last 30 years solvent and chemical suppliers have been growing and evolving and now distribute a wide range of products which require them to forward information in the form of MSDS and up to date data regarding REACH. They have become a one-stop shop from manufacturing and distribution to waste management and are heavily involved in the supply chain to ensure high quality standards.

If you are one of the 4 in 10 businesses in the UK that can get Fibre Broadband you are probably enjoying a significant improvement in performance. You may not be aware that for a small monthly premium you can upgrade your Fibre Broadband to a new type of dedicated leased line that will reduce your overall communications spend by around 50%. How is this possible?

Private dentists have several computers all networked so each dentist can access patient records. Receptionists access notes from patient records too to make appointments which generate automatic text reminders. Many cosmetic dentists now offer a range of services including clear braces where photos, x-rays and patient details are emailed to US headquarters to produce braces which are then sent back to UK dentists to fit and refit regularly throughout the treatment plan.

1. Documents are never lost

My laptop crashed last week which caused me great distress as I work from home and store all the marketing documents for the company locally. Luckily I also back up these documents in the cloud so not only was I able to retrieve these documents from the cloud using a laptop I borrowed, but with Microsoft 365 I could also download the windows software and start working with my saved profile as if I was on my old laptop. My old laptop is back up and running again now although I do now love the laptop I borrowed as it is so fast.

…and why 90% of UK SMEs don’t use hosted voice.

1. Acceptance of the concept. Before IP voice was commercially viable, millions of US SMEs were already using Centrex. In the early 1980s the US telecommunications market liberalised, creating 7 local operating companies (the equivalent of Openreach) nicknamed ‘Baby bells’. These all launched their own central exchange offerings (Centrex) in preference to on-premise telephone equipment. With a big stake in the equipment market, BT was never really interested in Centrex and the UK’s first Centrex product launched by Mercury in the early 1990s was clumsy, unreliable and expensive.