Digitization will enable companies of all sizes to quickly streamline their operations, improve the experience of customers and employees, and create new business models.
Those that can become agile organisations and adopt to market trends faster than the competition will be able to sustain market leadership; those...
Published: May 15, 2018
When deciding which wireless and wired network infrastructure provider to choose for your business, it is beneficial to compare multiple providers to ensure that you are using the best one. When comparing providers, you should also compare the numerous moving parts involved in network management, control, configuration,...
Published: May 15, 2018
Office 365 offers a variety of choices and added functionality making it confusing for IT teams to decide what they need. More importantly, Microsoft security and compliance capabilities have many gaps that can create multiple areas of significant concern to properly protect your organizations.
Read this Osterman...
Published: May 03, 2018
Ten years ago, people would simply pick up the phone and call your business when they needed help. That’s no longer the case.
Today, by the time your customers make that phone call, they’ve most likely already tried three other channels to find the answer they’re looking for.
The customer’s...
Published: May 09, 2018
Is it possible to implement an Office 365-ready network, at scale, without a proof-of-concept (PoC)?
While many companies have had challenges with Office 365, others have realized that understanding a few key network concepts can make all the difference.
Download this whitepaper that helps define the key steps...
Published: Feb 19, 2018
There’s no denying that Office 365 is a big deal. It’s a big part of the Microsoft Intelligent Cloud strategy. It’s big in terms of its user base. And it has a big impact on your network. Fully deployed, Office 365 will quickly become your greatest consumer of bandwidth and slayer of firewalls.
Office...
Published: Feb 19, 2018
IT managers have a nearly impossible job. They must understand, manage, and secure the network all the time against all problems. Anything less than a 100 percent working network is a failure. There is a very familiar saying: Don’t miss the forest for the trees. Meaning, don’t let the details prevent...
Published: Jun 17, 2016
Data center networks rely on Ethernet. Over the decades, Ethernet has evolved as new types of application architectures emerged. Today, data center networks carry traffic for a diverse set of applications including client/server, Web services, unified communications, virtual machines, and storage—each with different...
Published: Sep 26, 2013
To stay ahead today's network performance management solutions need a lens into the end user's experience as well as an understanding of the dependencies between your applications and network. With this approach, you are alerted to issues before the business is impacted and problems are resolved faster!
This...
Published: Jul 26, 2016
Today, less than 5% of network operations teams are sufficiently skilled to realize the value possible from network analytics and automation solutions. This will improve over the next three years, but not much—by 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will be able to fully realize the benefits of these tools....
Published: Jul 19, 2017
This paper explores the capabilites of unified communications and provides examples of how exploration and production companies use convergence in communications to best advantage to allow data, voice, and video collaboration between experts and explore the value that it brings. It includes various case examples of where...
Published: Apr 24, 2013
Ready to start using Microsoft® Azure®, but not sure how to get started?
Have teams within your organization opened Azure accounts that you need to consolidate? Maybe you inherited some Azure workloads through a merger or acquisition? Or perhaps you’ve concluded that working with Microsoft’s offering...
Published: Sep 19, 2017
As interest in and use of wireless local area networks (WLANs) among businesses and consumers throughout the world have grown, the utility and cost-effectiveness of wireless technologies have been acknowledged within governments as well.
Following the strengthening of wireless technology standards to ensure greater...
Published: Oct 18, 2013
802.11n is certainly not dead and whilst manufacturers are still recommending 802.11n deployments, enterprise IT managers should give some thought to and make plans for the eventual implementation of 802.11ac. This new standard brings opportunities to deliver wireless networks to support...
Published: Mar 23, 2016