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...]
Extreme Networks Acquisition of Aerohive, Among Others
51 Market Insight: Extreme Networks buys Aerohive, EnOcean, Everspin, Flexera, Agile Stacks, NVIDIA Extreme Networks acquires Aerohive, marking its fourth deal in three years. Extreme has purchased Aerohive for $272 million to obtain the target's technology, cloud management, and complementary customers and channel partners. With each acquisition it inks, the buyer adds new offerings and technologies to its product line along with channel partners and customers. The deal is its fourth … [Read more...]
Carriers Enforcing Auto-Renewals and PRI Prices Increasing
Carriers Enforcing Auto-Renewals – How Does this Affect You? Across the board, carriers are enforcing Auto-Renewals on current contracts. Contractual Auto-Renewals occur when your current contact term ends and then automatically renews for either the originally signed amount of time, or for a year, dependent upon the carrier. Contracts are a benefit as they allow customers to take advantage of discounted pricing, allowing for major savings. Historically, carriers have been lax in enforcing … [Read more...]
4 Considerations for SD-WAN Deployment
Many enterprises are investing in a network upgrade to support their adoption and the performance levels of cloud solutions. For most organizations, this means implementing software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). It solves a variety of challenges and allows the enterprise to be vendor agnostic, no longer tied to a single internet service provider or carrier. The benefits that SD-WAN introduces are numerous, including the following: SD-WAN adds a virtual overlay to the physical … [Read more...]
Frontier Communications Announces Sale of Operations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana
"Frontier Communications Corporation (FTR) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its operations and all associated assets in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana to WaveDivision Capital, LLC (WDC) in partnership with Searchlight Capital Partners, LLC (Searchlight) for $1.352 billion in cash subject to certain closing adjustments." To read more about this topic, click here. … [Read more...]
Microsoft Expands Collaboration and Employee Experiences in Sharepoint
Recently, the following statement was released by Raul Castanon-Martinez: "Microsoft recently announced new collaboration features and employee experiences for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. The company unveiled SharePoint home sites, a quick-to-deploy intranet offering that delivers personalized content and organizational news and drives employee engagement and communications through Yammer and Stream, its enterprise video service. … [Read more...]
5 Reasons You Might See a Surge in Bandwidth Usage
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transmitted at one time. As enterprises tap more into cloud solutions that have heavy bandwidth requirements for maintaining performance levels, the demand on bandwidth is growing. While you can employ a network performance manual (NPM) to examine bandwidth usage, it’s also helpful to know the common culprits when there’s a sudden surge. If your bandwidth usage is too high, your network performance will suffer. This, of course, also impacts … [Read more...]
Announcing our New Service: Voice Talent
We at Access Tech understand that recording your business' IVR messages and greetings for voicemail boxes might seem like a a grueling, stressful process. It is important to have the correct voice to be the telephonic representation of your company. This service is referred to as Voice Talent, which is provided by companies that specialize in the inner-workings of recording telephony needs. Recently, our Customer Support Specialist, Ambrosia, has recorded multiple IVR recordings and Voicemail … [Read more...]
The Revolutionary Nature of SD-WAN
While calling any particular technology “revolutionary” is almost a surefire way to guarantee it will be largely ignored, the word isn’t hyperbole when it comes to software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). While the individual components of SD-WAN aren’t new, the ways they’re being used to change network infrastructure are unprecedented. In many ways, SD-WAN and cloud solutions have emerged together in a sort of symbiotic relationship. Cloud applications have complicated networking, … [Read more...]
Don’t Begin Digital Transformation Without This
Pursuing digital transformation is almost a given in the cloud era, but there are still some organizations failing to see the importance of offering a superior customer experience or the impact of disrupting business processes for improved productivity. The fallout is potentially serious: in a recent Couchbase survey, respondents said that businesses that fail to embrace digital transformation may not even be in existence in the next two to four years. In a push to avoid this fate, companies … [Read more...]