Steve Osler, Author at Wildix Blog

Why Mandating a Return to the Office Is a Step Backward

Steve Osler — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:26:50 +0000

Mondays used to fill many of us with dread at the thought of returning to a rigid office environment. It felt like starting the week with a triple shot of decaf espresso — a pointless undertaking that offers no productivity boost to deal with all the negative effects of stress and fatigue. Unfortunately, this scenario remains as companies insist on partial or full returns, failing …

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UC&C in 2023: What to Expect for Communications Technology

Steve Osler — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:35:11 +0000

At last, 2022 is winding down — a year of chaos, of disruption in the worst of ways, but also one of coming together and doing good in response. Going into 2023, there are going to be still more hardships worldwide. I won’t go through them all here, but in the world of UC&C, those …

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The State of UC&C in 2022

Steve Osler — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:05:39 +0000

Change is one of the few constants of any IT sector, and unified communications is no different. But in recent years, the changes in this sector have felt more seismic. Once, UC&C was itself a niche trend. Now, vendors big and small are rushing into the sector. It can be confusing to keep up with …

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Owning Your Customer: The Only Way to Succeed in Modern IT

Steve Osler — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:22:01 +0000

Out of all the telecom terms out there, the one I like emphasizing more than any other is the acronym of MSP: Managed Service Provider. The reason why is that being an MSP means you do far, far more than just pass tools from a vendor to an end-user — instead, it means you’re someone …

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Skype is not secure, Microsoft: “use a VPN to access”

Steve Osler — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:40:41 +0000

That’s not true, of course. I just applied to Skype the idea of security that manages to create an “Open Source Genius.” Let’s leave Skype aside and see what really happened. Giacomo Brusciati of Comunica.Meta srl, an installer of telephone systems in the Marche region, has installed about 2,200 systems. First ISDN and then VoIP. …

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