When you’re running a small business, it often feels like you have to make a series of decisions related to outsourcing versus in-house solutions. Areas such as payroll and other bookkeeping tasks are often the first areas of expertise that businesses outsource, but when you invite an IT partner to help you solve some technology challenges, you may wish you had started there. When you think about the far-reaching influence IT has over your business processes and success, you can see that … [Read more...]
Three Steps to Prep for a Successful VoIP Migration
You’ve decided it’s time to upgrade to a new communications solution either because your private branch exchange (PBX) is limiting your growth objectives or because your contract is up for renewal and it’s simply a good time to switch. Your Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) migration will be easier than installing an on-site system, but there are still some steps you should take to ensure it’s a success. Step One: Prep Your Infrastructure: When transitioning to VoIP, your communications … [Read more...]
QLC as the Latest Flash Price Reducer
Changes to Data Center Flash Over the past six years, Data Center Flash has moved rapidly from SLC Flash which stores one data bit per memory cell through MLC flash storing two bits per cell. It will then go to the current three-bit TLC Flash, which now accounts for over 90% of all flash shipments. Each move lowered the per-GB cost of flash but also delivered diminishing price reductions. This was done while introducing increasing technical challenges maintaining flash performance, reliability, … [Read more...]
What You Can Do To Protect Your Network – Watch out for Certain Network Attacks
Watch out for These Three Types of Network Attacks Every industry is targeted by certain common attack strategies. There are three major types of attacks that can occur in your network: • Reconnaissance Attacks These are general knowledge gathering attacks. They occur by an outsider probing the network or through social engineering and physical surveillance; these attacks can be preventable. Common examples of reconnaissance attacks: Packet sniffing, ping sweeping, port scanning, phishing, … [Read more...]
Moving Forward With Digital Transformation
Most enterprises are pursuing digital transformation, harnessing volumes of data through cloud solutions and responding more quickly to customer preferences. For each enterprise that successfully moves through initiatives to achieve improved agility and scalability in their business processes, there may be a line of unsuccessful transformation stories from similar enterprises. What’s the difference between enterprises that nimbly move through a digital transformation and those that get stuck … [Read more...]
Two Requirements for SD-Branch
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has solved many of the problems that tend to emerge with a cloud environment, such as managing the cost of higher bandwidth demands and improved visibility into the network. Changes at the branch level require enterprises to take things a step further and invest in the software-defined branch (SD-branch), which simplifies management and improves the security at each location. The need for SD-branch is partly due to the increased number of … [Read more...]
Approaching a Digital Transformation With Eyes on Success
Around 80% of organizations have taken on some form of digital transformation within the last five years, according to a McKinsey & Company survey titled “Unlocking Success in Digital Transformation”. Success or failure of such ventures can generally be placed on the shoulders of chief information officers (CIOs). Just because you’re embracing new and exciting technology doesn’t ensure success. While these technologies are meant to lay out a path to productivity, it takes careful … [Read more...]
Addressing Your Cyber Security Policy
A cyber security policy isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it proposition, especially today as cyber attacks increase at an alarming rate. Approaching a policy with a deep understanding of your needs, including the infrastructure that must be in place to protect data and who is to be held accountable, is important. Revisiting aspects of the policy on a continuing basis can also protect your environment from eminent danger. What’s protecting your critical information? Where is it being stored? Who has … [Read more...]
Solving Network Issues with Managed SD-WAN
Enterprises are turning to software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) as a way to manage increasing bandwidth costs and the growing complexity of networking in the cloud era. For many, the initial conversation centers around cost savings, but as the benefits of SD-WAN play out in real life, cost concerns are often dwarfed by other advantages the approach offers. Further improvements are often realized with the adoption of managed SD-WAN. As enterprises adopt more cloud solutions into … [Read more...]
The Impact of Failing to Embrace Business Agility
Many enterprises fail to realize that they’ve lost their innovative approach — that they’ve become an organization that no longer prioritizes business agility. It doesn’t happen overnight; it creeps in as competitors introduce disruptive technology while you delay it for seemingly good reasons. Take a look at some of the common symptoms of an enterprise that’s lost its focus on business agility, and see if it describes your workplace: Swamped in Coding Tasks: Your department can’t keep up … [Read more...]
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