Most organizations can attest to the value of having a well-rounded disaster recovery plan, yet many are not willing to invest the time or energy into such a task. However, disaster recovery is extremely important today in light of the frequent cyber attacks that put your data at risk. Not only is data at risk; reputations are also vulnerable. To ensure that both will remain uncompromised, it’s important to carefully plan for your disaster recovery process. In the event of a disaster, … [Read more...]
Cloud Security Protections Keep Your Data Safe
Are you still wondering how safe cloud security solutions are? Cloud-based systems have taken off in just about every industry, leaving many to question the severity of risk factors regarding their private information. A little concern can be helpful in taking greater strides to keep prying eyes off sensitive data. With the right protections in place, you can keep your data safe when you make the move to cloud solutions. Easy Doesn’t Equal Risky By using cloud-based solutions, you are able … [Read more...]
Why Digital Transformation Is More About Change Than About Technology
Enterprises are pursuing digital transformation in an effort to outpace their competition and improve the customer experience. Those who don’t embrace this change are in danger of becoming irrelevant in their market, or of watching other companies pull ahead and capture market share. A digital transformation strategy is about more than implementing cloud solutions for data storage or switching to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It’s about disruptive change that upends business processes … [Read more...]
The Perils of Failing to Prioritize Business Agility
You’ve known colleagues who are resistant to change. It’s the guy down the hall from your office who hates an organizational adjustment or seems to recoil at even the thought of a new software application or update. They may complain for days when holiday policy changes or when they are assigned to a team project. It’s the last person you’d think of as a champion of business agility. Then again, what if that person is running your company? The failure to embrace business agility affects every … [Read more...]
Five Key Benefits of UCaaS
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offers companies a way to significantly reduce the cost of communications, but a new way to use VoIP is an even more disruptive technology. Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) offers a variety of benefits that not only save money, but provide a way for enterprises to completely change business processes and innovate on a bigger scale. UCaaS is a collaborative communications technology that allows users to access all formats of communication through … [Read more...]
Managing Security With a Cloud Infrastructure
As your enterprise makes the transition to all things cloud, you may find that securing your infrastructure is one of the key challenges. Not only is the network adding complexity all the time with increased data flows and the addition of more devices, but navigating a cloud security strategy is much more complicated than in the days where the network was secured with a good firewall. The security plane has widened, and so must the security strategy. When working with your cloud provider on a … [Read more...]
Creating Big Expectations for SD-WAN While Managing Potential Challenges
Enterprises managing the ever-increasing complexity of networks impacted by cloud technology, artificial intelligence, and a flood of data transmissions are looking to software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) as the key to all their solutions. It’s true that SD-WAN is the answer to many of the challenges complicating modern networks, but there’s often a gap between expectations and reality. If you can balance expectations for SD-WAN with a clear plan for implementation, you’ll … [Read more...]
Planning For a Successful SIP Trunking Implementation
Session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking is a technology that, while simple in concept, is complex in deployment. The beauty of SIP trunking is the ability to read messages as they travel between two devices, to see the session initiation. While the simplicity of the technology is attractive to enterprises, the implementation of the technology can be daunting. Approximately 20% of SIP trunking installs run into difficulties during installation and operation. The complexity of SIP … [Read more...]
How Unified Communications Improves Manufacturing Supply Chains
Most manufacturing processes do not occur in a single location. Instead, each stage of product creation is likely to require a stop in a different state or even country as a product moves from raw materials all the way to appearing on a store shelf. A cotton blanket, for instance, may begin its formation as cotton bolls in the American south, but then the next phase may take the cotton to Honduras where it is knitted and dyed, then sewn. Finally, the blanket returns to the United States for … [Read more...]
Widespread Changes in the Unified Communications Market
There have been widespread mergers and acquisitions in the unified communications market as the demand for cloud services has increased. The result is that cloud services customers receive the benefits of scale and cost-effectiveness and the last vendors standing enjoy the amassed market share. The impact of cloud on unified communications: Cloud technology is shifting its role in the enterprise, with IT teams getting more comfortable partnering with service providers. Momentum is increasing … [Read more...]
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