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
In an era of business that demands unrivaled agility, most organizations are stuck on networks that are still hardware-bound, router-heavy, and hard-coded. Fortunately, the software-defined movement is ushering in a whole new way to manage enterprise WANs.
Read this white paper from CIO.com and Riverbed to explore...
Published: Jul 21, 2016
The increase in wide area network (WAN) traffic and applications service demands has caused IT organization to evolve their WAN connectivity strategies. Hybrid WAN is a growing trend with many organizations and enterprises.
This whitepaper discusses:
Hybrid architectures.
Requirements for a successful...
Published: Feb 10, 2016
Mobile communications have fundamentally changed the way business works. Once the exclusive domain of senior executives, mobile devices are now indispensable to most employees for conducting both their business and personal lives. Smartphones, tablets, and new hybrid devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Note and Apple iPad...
Published: Apr 07, 2014
There are many benefits to be achieved by moving your office suite and infrastructure to the cloud. Such a move requires careful evaluation and planning.
This guide explains what you need to think about at each step, from the initial discovery process through to project completion.
Published: Mar 01, 2015
We’ve built a calculator that lets you quickly quantify the savings your company can expect from a SMARTnet contract.
Just plug in your numbers and find out how the benefits you can expect from SMARTnet service—fewer escalated incidents, reduced staff costs, less downtime—translate into actual cost...
Published: Dec 10, 2013
Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) is a fast-growing market that is currently disrupting existing unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) revenue streams as businesses across all segments and sizes are looking to adopt and implement collaboration solutions that deliver more efficiency, flexibility,...
Published: Jul 01, 2015
An efficient working environment relies on people being able to hear and be heard clearly on calls.
Background noise can affect office workers who often use a combination of desk phones, smartphones, and computer softphones to talk to colleagues and customers. It also impacts flexible workers, who spend most of the...
Published: Nov 05, 2015
We should state, right up front, that products based on the upcoming IEEE 802.11ac wireless-LAN (WLAN) standard are indeed going to dominate the enterprise wireless local-area network landscape.
But as is often the case with new technologies, the hype surrounding the initial availability of .11ac products is...
Published: May 21, 2013