Outlook Magazine RSSen-GBEPiServer CMS1699http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Dummy-Page/stylesheet fact fact fact  /Global/Images/hot_shots_logo.jpg fact fact  /Global/Images/hot_shots_logo.jpg fact Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:22:00 Z2012-01-17T12:24:00Z1548http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/The-Vault/Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:57:00 Z2011-12-07T16:57:42Z632http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Your-backup-system/Don't wait until you suffer a disastrous data loss to find out. Here’s how to work out if you can depend on your backups should disaster strike, and what to do if not... How to determine if your backup system needs replacing To work out your level of risk from serious damage to your business through data loss, ask yourself the following 2 questions: How much data can I get away with losing in a...Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:40:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z627http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/WAN-optimisation/Do programs at your branch offices run sluggishly? Are employees complaining that the network's too slow to work from home? Wide area networking (WAN) optimisation could be the answer... Where’s the poor performance coming from? Applications that use data stored in your head office often run slowly from a branch office or home. The most common reason for such poor performance is network...Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:44:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z629http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Hacker-proof-your-network/Worried about your network security? Put your security measures to the test. What's keeping intruders out of your network? You'll find it easier to test your security if you know exactly what your defences are. Typically, network defences include: a firewall to keep intruders out of your network an intrusion prevention / detection system (IPS / IDS) to let you know when you're under attack from...Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:41:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z630http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Keep-your-domain-names-safe/What would happen if you lost control of your domain names? If someone else took your website and email addresses it could seriously damage your business – both in terms of profits and reputation. If you think it’s unlikely that your domain names could be stolen, think again . Hijackers who get into your domain name registrar account can easily divert your customers to their own website. And if...Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:37:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z628http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Storage-consolidation/Storage costs have a habit of spiralling out of control. If this sounds familiar, storage consolidation and archiving could be just what you need to drive your costs back down... Avoid storage sprawl When you notice that your network’s running low on storage space it's tempting just to plug more storage in. This is certainly effective in the short term, but there's a problem: storage sprawl ,...Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:33:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z623http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Regular-features/  In Practice Ten ways to go green Did you realise that getting your business to go green will also help to cut your costs in numerous ways? Discover how you can reduce carbon emissions with Environmentally-sustainable IT.  See how you can make a difference >   In Technology Securing Your Network Now, more than ever it’s crucial that you’re aware of the potential threats your network faces and...Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z624http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Thank-you/You've successfully unsubscribed from our Outlook magazine. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:54:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z625http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Outlook-Unsubscribe/If you no longer wish to receive any further Outlook Magazines from Virgin Media Business, please fill out the form below and press submit. We'll be sorry to see you go. {Form}   Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:36:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z626http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Outlook-Contact/Interested in one of our products or services? Want to tell us what you think of our Outlook magazine? Any suggestions how we can improve the next edition? Then drop us a line. {Form}   Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:10:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:58Z617http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Thanks-for-feedback/Thanks for taking the time to feedback to us. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:51:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z620http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/In-the-Know/Cloud-based-Services/[CMCPageId 2302] Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:22:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z619http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/In-focus/Unified-Communications/[CMCPageId 2292] Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:22:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z618http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Benefits-of-Unified-Comms/Today’s super-mobile sales teams often struggle to stay connected to the rest of the business. Here’s where a Unified Communications system can help. Check out our handy top ten list of benefits. Thirty years ago a typical business was built on a well-thumbed address book, a telephone and lots and lots of meetings. And what a mess it was. Your sales staff were away from their desk and usually o...Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:41:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z614http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Unified-Communications-FAQs/Our re sident UC expert Matt McCloskey, Senior Product Manager for Applications & Services answers all your UC questions. Can I implement Unified Communications a bit at a time?     Yes, in fact, we’d always recommend that you trial your UC systems then gradually integrate UC in with your current systems. It’s rare to find a green field site where there’s a need for a complete UC system. We foc...Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:56:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z613http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Shaking-up-the-Telecoms-Market/The world has got used to a fast pace of change, yet the telecoms world seemed to sit back and watch. Businesses today are using products that seem to get smaller, faster and increase their functionality almost daily, but the business telecoms market hasn’t changed much at all during the past fifteen years. Virgin Media Business means to change that and aims to shake up the business telecoms...Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:46:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z609http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/How-to-evaluate-a-CRM-system/A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package can make a big difference to how a company operates. It can produce a single view of a customer or a supplier that everyone can share, and when it’s linked to your Unified Communications package it can produce real efficiencies in time and money. The benefits of a good CRM package rely on you selecting the optimum CRM package for your business. I...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:50:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:56Z608http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Presence-saves-Time-and-Money/Many businesses waste masses of time just in the way their workers communicate with each other. They all too-often wait hours, days or even weeks for a response to a simple query. Instant messaging (IM) , and the concept of Unified Communication , (UC) can help you to eliminate this time wasting. Presence is particularly helpful – it can quickly and efficiently inform you whether the person tha...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:35:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:56Z607http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Getting-the-most-out-of--UC/Unified Communications (UC) gets good press and rightly so. Many companies are looking to UC to gain efficiencies and cost savings. But, if you use your UC system in the same way as your old phone system, and don’t target the additional functionality your UC system provides, then you’ll only get a small percentage of the returns a UC can give. We want you to get the most from your UC system, an...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:28:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:56Z605http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/FD-Interest-in-Unified-Comms/It’s a given that it’s easy to justify the “soft” parts of a Unified Communications (UC) system such as better collaboration, better customer satisfaction, and improved communication, but this won’t cut much ice with your FD. What they want are the hard facts: how much money the system will save and what benefits will it bring to the company’s bottom line? To make sure you have a good case we’v...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:08:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:56Z606http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Video-conferencing-Skills/Imagine you’re a presenter walking into an important presentation. You’d never dream of going in unprepared, unkempt or dressed in your pyjamas.  And it’s probably your worst nightmare that you’d dry up or start rambling and staring at the floor as you delivered your presentation. With a video-conference you need to prepare just as thoroughly as for a standard presentation but to get ahead you’...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:55:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:56Z612http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Ten-ways-to-go-Green/It makes good business sense to adopt a green approach. Environmentally- sustainable IT and business practices will help to reduce carbon emissions – all of this is great for the environment. But did you realise that getting your business to go green will also help to cut your costs in numerous ways? And it’ll attract more customers and business partners, many of whom are looking for suppliers...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:02:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z611http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Securing-your-Network/It’s a given that computer networks are the backbone of every modern business’s day-to-day operations. Now, more than ever it’s crucial that you’re aware of the potential threats your network faces and understand and implement good business practices to protect it. Computer networks interlink your colleagues, customers, suppliers and business partners and enable companies to respond instantly t...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:53:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z622http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/IP-CCTV-The-Basics/Security issues can be a massive hassle for any business. Find out how IP network based security systems could help you minimise all of your admin hassle and cut your costs. Security is a big issue for many businesses, especially those in the manufacturing, retail and distribution industries where large quantities of often high-value items pass through their systems. And security has been a bit...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:44:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z621http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Virtualisation/Increased use of everything and anything IT to make work life faster and more efficient has conversely made work slower and less efficient for IT service professionals. The solution? Virtualisation. While end users are relying on IT to make their life easier and their work more streamlined, the opposite is happening for IT services. Softw are and hardware are far more robust than in the past,...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:45:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:57Z610http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/Why-NGNs-are-Important/Next Generation Networks offer you increased bandwidth online – this will enable your business to be both more efficient and save valuable time. Everyone would agree that the Internet has radically altered the way we operate in business. The first major change was businesses adopting email as a form of communication and setting up websites to attract a worldwide audience. The next step change w...Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:48:00 +01002011-11-07T17:24:56Z616http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/Business-needs/Outlook-Magazine/eNewsletter/Outlook is an e-newsletter that we put together with you firmly in mind. Whether you’re looking for the latest business news or an explanation of new technology, Outlook has it covered. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:33:00 Z2011-11-07T17:24:57Z