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
The world's largest organizations are adopting cloud-based infrastructure and services at a dizzying pace. Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings such as Salesforce.com and Microsoft Office 365 are among the more popular cloud-based services.
When moving services to the cloud, data centers are no longer local,...
Published: Jun 01, 2015
People around the globe are enamored with their smartphones and tablet computers, and they feel strongly that they should be allowed to use these devices at work.
By combining an architecture-based technical implementation with carefully considered business policies, organizations can create a safe and appropriate...
Published: Oct 18, 2013
Today’s branch office requires the same level of rich application services as the company headquarters.
Why are these services needed? What impact do they have on the network, IT staff and service provider? What is the best way to boost the branch-office network to optimum levels—both technically and tactfully—if...
Published: Oct 24, 2013
IT transformation is more than a one-time migration of applications to the cloud; it’s an ongoing process of adapting your application’s architecture to best take advantage of new and rapidly evolving services and features being released by providers like Microsoft® Azure® and AWS.
In this ebook,...
Published: Dec 12, 2017
When organizations talk about improving their technology return on investment (ROI), they typically are referring to their investments in hardware or software, but in fact, the greatest opportunity to increase your technology return may come from improving the productivity of your data center IT staff.
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Published: Jan 16, 2014
This is the second in a series of two white papers. The first paper was entitled Why Network Engineering Needs to Change. That paper acknowledged the usual dynamic nature of change in IT and it addressed some changes underway that have significant impact on network engineering.
This paper will also describe the key...
Published: Jan 20, 2016
The way in which applications are consumed has undergone rapid and significant change in recent years—both in the growing list of user device types to support, each with its own unique requirements, and in how those devices are connected, with variations in network characteristics between fixed, mobile, and remote...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
Huge data center, check. Multiple 10G Ethernet pipes, check. Load balancer, check. Firewall? Really? Do network architects need to buy yet another box, and likely take a performance hit?
Not according to F5 Networks, which says its BIG-IP 10200v with Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) can handle traffic at 80-Gbps rates...
Published: Jan 03, 2014