If you’ve spent any amount of time reading or watching Football, you’ve likely heard a commentator refer to a coach scripting his team’s plays. In business we often talk about a go to market strategy or business strategy. Individual departments such as IT map out a network strategy to cover security, connectivity etc. I recently…
The traditional WAN (wide-area network) function is to connect users at the branch offices to applications hosted on servers in the data center. Typically, dedicated MPLS circuits is used to help ensure security, QoS and reliable connectivity. In today’s IT world employee productivity may be compromised by SaaS-application performance problems. WAN expenses can rise with…
Single Sign on has been prevalent in many organizations for years, but its importance is often overlooked and underappreciated. With many enterprises moving to the cloud and taking advantage of third-party services, seamless access to multiple applications from anywhere and on any device is essential for maintaining business efficiency and a seamless customer experience. Having…
Re-imagining your business in the digital age means equipping your organization with the tools necessary to keep up with competitors and to meet changing market requirements. This type of transformation transcends traditional roles like sales, marketing, and customer service, and focuses on how your organization thinks about, and engages with, customers. There are generally 4…
Cloud migration. What does it mean? Cloud migration is the process of moving digital assets — like data, workloads, servers, or applications — to cloud infrastructure. Cloud migration commonly refers to moving tools and data from on-premises* data center to cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google to name a few. Benefits of migrating to…
Hybrid WAN is a way of connecting branch offices with the traffic being sent over two different types of connections. One connection is the traditional MPLS that connects to the data center. The other is made through a broadband connection to the Internet using SD WAN to create an encrypted tunnel. How does it benefit my…
In the past year, 92% of organizations reported that their organization had seen ransomware delivered via email attachments and nearly 30% have seen business operations impacted by ransomware. You’ve read thousands of articles on guarding your network from every threat under the sun. But sometimes, despite all precautions, an infection gets in. Now is the…
Productivity in business has been consistently dropping since 2007, according to recent Bureau of Labor statistics. Coincidentally, that was also when the smartphone rose to prominence, becoming an increasingly important part of our day-to-day lives. This begs the question, “Is the sharp decline in productivity over the last decade actually caused by technology?” While some think…
Have you ever considered how the rush to set up remote workers has impacted network security? Are we now more secure or less secure? What did we gain, or possibly miss in terms of vulnerability? Consider the following….Microsoft reported 32 million subscribers using Teams on March 11th, a 40% increase. Most business only dream of…
More and more organizations are turning away from branch routers in favor of Secure SD-WAN to become cloud-ready. What is SD-WAN? If your organization is like most others then you probably have moved many of your core systems to the cloud. Practice management solutions, CRM solutions, ERP solutions, most software vendors are moving their clients…