Using WAN Insight to support your network availability and business growth Information is power – knowing how your wide area network is performing and being able to identify issues is essential for organisations. Lift the lid on your network performance, by using WAN...
It is too tempting to conclude that ‘clicks has mortally wounded ‘bricks’ Given all the news headlines in recent months about the failing High Street and big brand bankruptcies on the one hand and Amazon’s record UK revenues and surging pandemic-fuelled online growth on...
Becoming technology enabled with cloud In our previous blog, we looked at the tensions between ‘keeping the lights on’ and ‘enablement’, where IT budgets are still largely given over to ensuring business as usual as opposed to...
8 ways collaboration tools help teams work better together Aragon Research describes people-centric collaboration as ‘enabling seamless communications and collaboration’. Users want to work within a single interface across different devices for...
Becoming technology enabled On the journey to digital transformation, there is a world of difference between organisations that are technology-dependent and those that are technology enabled. Where an organisation is heavily...
SD-WAN: A Buyer’s Guide There is a growing buzz around SD-WAN as a network solution. It brings considerable benefits for some use cases but it isn’t a silver bullet for networking, as our buyer’s guide explains. ...
What is a managed service provider? A managed service provider (MSP) is a company that manages a range of IT services and infrastructure on behalf of an organisation. These services typically include network, cloud, security and...
Secure Remote Access Solutions: A Buyer’s Guide It is increasingly important for workers to be able to access their data and applications while working from home, in a client’s office or another remote location, such as on a train or in a cafe....
Calls2Teams: A customer perspective Managed telephony has saved the day for many rising to the challenge of Covid-19. The need to mobilise thousands of employees has had many organisations thankful they had the capability in place to...
Managed network services: a buyer’s guide It can be difficult to know what managed network services are right for your business. Buying less than you need will hold your company back, but buying too much will waste resources. Here’s our...
SD-WAN: Three benefits your users will thank you for What do your users want from a network solution? Ease of access, speed of applications and application availability anytime, anywhere. But as business needs change, the needs and wants of users also...
SD-WAN: 8 Signs Should Be On Your Networking Agenda To optimise application performance for your current users and prepare your network for future business needs, you may be considering several options. You may be considering how you can make existing...
5 tips to manage hybrid cloud for success If you are using cloud computing, the chances are that your solution is made up of a hybrid or multi-cloud approach. Hybrid cloud is one of the leading approaches used by many enterprise organisations...
Aligning your cloud strategy with your business objectives The organisational advantages of cloud are clear through its inherent scalability, resilience and security. However, some organisations are at risk of not achieving the full potential and value of...
Maintain the same calling experience with Unity on a SIM The way people work is changing, and currently during the COVID-19 pandemic it’s altering work patterns and physical locations more than ever. Overnight the working landscape has shifted with...
New Redcentric Call2Teams™ service enables PSTN calling from within Microsoft Teams Give your O365 users a Microsoft Teams PSTN calling function with Call2Teams™. There’s no doubt that Microsoft Teams has been a godsend in recent weeks with its messaging capability but it’s...
Remote working tips for keeping a connected workforce It’s fair to say that Covid-19 is probably the biggest stressor to hit business and society in peacetime. But whereas a decade ago the widespread call to work from home would have resulted in...
HSCN Secure Remote Access Tokens FAQs The remote access service that currently runs over N3 comes to an end in August 2020. If you want to ensure your end users can continue to access applications and data securely and seamlessly while on...
Does the end of Windows 7 mean greater efficiencies for your clinicians? January 2020 may have marked the end of support for Windows 7 but FOI requests released the same month show that a staggering 46% of machines in the NHS are still running the OS, this despite the...
What to do when your N3 tokens expire: HSCN remote access For the last two years people have been transitioning from N3 to HSCN and at the same time, replacing the overlay services they took. With the BT bridging gap from N3 to HSCN collapsing in August...
12 benefits of desktop as a service 1. Improved accessibility The anywhere, anytime, anyhow nature of the service allows users to access their desktops over the internet via PC, laptop, tablet and even smartphone, giving them...
What is cloud collaboration? When Cloud collaboration happens in an unregulated environment that can’t be audited, where intellectual property can’t be protected, and where data and network security can’t be guaranteed,...
The chance meeting… Or how not to adopt a collaboration solution by accident We have the skills, the experience and the ability to deliver a ‘best fit’ meeting and collaboration solution for your business. Since the word ‘Skype’ became a slang term for a video call and...
What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)? Platform as a Service (PaaS) is best visualised as sitting in the middle of a three-tier Cloud computing pyramid that also comprises IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a...
Top tips for creating a unified communications strategy Have a Vision Before you even get to define your business case, proactively engage with your end users to understand how they work today, find out what’s important and how the introduction of a...
Top 10 tips when considering cloud services For well over a decade, outsourcing tried to take a foot hold, but only over the last two to three years, things have matured, most notably with providers presenting us with stronger, more compelling...
Migrating from business objects planning to SAP BPC (budget planning and consolidation) Following the acquisitions of Outlooksoft and Business Objects in 2007, SAP have recently announced a revised go-to-market offering for Planning, Budgeting and Consolidation. As a result of this,...
Byod and myod beware – choose cyod instead 2017 will be the adoption tipping point for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies according to a recent Gartner report. In just three years from now we’ll see more employees accessing corporate...
From virtual to reality: what you need to know about persistent and non persistent virtual desktops According to market analyst company, The 451 Group, the market for virtualised desktop environments (VDI) is estimated to reach $5.6billion by next year. With the ability to provide high performance...
