We have seen how effective and cost-saving remote working has become. For these reasons, prepare yourself and your business for cloud services in our workforce. Unified Communications as a Service, or UCaaS, is allowing more freedom to many companies. For example, the ability to accommodate workers that can connect with each other and the cloud is changing the world. What else can UCaaS do for our companies? Maintaining efficiency while lowering overhead costs are some of the most impactful new … [Read more...]
SD-WAN: Survey Reveals Pain Points
Recently, a survey was performed by Telia Carrier that has revealed the biggest pain points for the SD-WAN industry. Customer demand and customer performance showed a large discrepancy, with the largest pain point in security. Here is a graph that shows the breakdown of Telia's results: As COVID is now a part of the entire global workforce, SD-WAN has become even more desired by industries of all types. The ability to remotely view usage and issues, make configuration changes, and pull … [Read more...]
Optimization Needs for Cloud Spending = Opportunity
As businesses move more of their applications and other tools to be cloud-based, the need for cloud expertise is expanding. This creates opportunity and challenge in many ways due to the newly fundamental need for companies to start or continue working from the cloud. Currently, virtual and remote workers are the biggest cause of the IT industry's need towards an optimization of cloud spending. However, the re-allocation of existing budgets has to be taken into account for these new … [Read more...]
External IT Expertise: Needs Are On The Rise
As we move further into the cloud, the need for speed in the deployment of applications and services is ramping up. Most customer want these to be up and running practically immediately, increasing the opportunity for those who can assist. With security and compliance a huge concern for almost all companies, additional external IT expertise is becoming a necessary aspect in the success of a digital transformation. These external resources must be prepared to show how they rise above the … [Read more...]
Two Key Advantages of Business VPNs
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are a common approach to securing the privacy and networks of individual devices, but many companies opt for business VPNs to address common challenges. From providing secure connectivity to mobile employees to equipping bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs with the right safeguards, business VPNs are a useful solution. Here are two benefits to including business VPNs as part of your enterprise networking environment: Geo-Political Concerns: A significant … [Read more...]
4 Positive Ways Remote Working Benefits All Parts Of Our Business Culture
Since the onset of our culture's experience with the current COVID-19 phenomenon, more and more companies have chosen to keep their workers at home. Before the virus and its effects, hit so many in the whole of our workforce, remote working was not nearly as common. Now, there are seemingly endless positive benefits for employers to continue on this path, and to increase their efforts geared towards ramping up the process. Here are four of the most valid reasons, and how they relate to … [Read more...]
SD-WAN
Confused by SD-WAN? That is no surprise. Like “Cloud,” which can mean many things (SaaS, PaaS, public, private and hybrid), SD-WAN can as well. Most commonly, SD-WANs fall into these three categories: 1. Internet and Cloud Optimization: Latency, jitter, and packet loss can be killers for cloud based traffic such as Office 365, VoIP, and VPN. SD-WAN services provide real time monitoring and management of WAN traffic. Physical connections to multiple ISPs provide redundancy and resiliency. In … [Read more...]