Secure SD-WAN: peace of mind for your network
Like almost every technology innovation ever, for every problem it solves, it trails another along in its wake. Take SD-WAN. It’s a popular choice for those looking for MPLS-level Quality of Service...
Like almost every technology innovation ever, for every problem it solves, it trails another along in its wake. Take SD-WAN. It’s a popular choice for those looking for MPLS-level Quality of Service...
Cybersecurity has never been more important, especially for companies that depend on digital workspaces. One study found that cybercriminals can breach the network perimeter of 93% of companies today...
Whether mandated by a formal ESG policy or merely prompted by a desire to ‘do their bit’, organisations are ramping up their sustainability and environmental action plans. The race is very much on...
The digital workspace movement has been building over the last several years, as companies shifted more of their workloads to software applications and cloud systems. Even if employees were in the...
Events of the past two years have seen the proliferation of the digital workspace. But what exactly is it and how can it transform businesses?
To build an operating model that allows you to respond quickly to business needs, you need to look forward to your roadmap and outside factors. This blog looks at how other customers have built an...
How does IT build an agile operating model to support an ever-changing working environment? We look at some of considerations and blockers as organisations start their journey.
Every year, cybercriminals find and take advantage of a corporate system’s vulnerabilities. They feast on open communication protocols and exposed databases that show no sign of regular security...
Microsoft has created the New Commerce Experience which is a change to their subscription model. Read about these changes and your new options here.
Productivity tools enable your teams to work better, but with various solutions available how do you start to create your digital workspace?
Using a public cloud is one of the most significant tech shifts for any modern business. Here are 7 best practices to help your organisation succeed.
Demand for cloud computing services is growing rapidly and is expected to make up 14.2% of global enterprise IT spending by 2024. According to Gartner, spending on public clouds last year reached...
BT’s plan to decommission PSTN and ISDN lines will come into effect in 2025. To get prepared and to future-proof your infrastructure we’ve pulled together some key information you will need to...
Choosing the right virtual desktop can be hard. We look at four of the most popular platforms, their pros and cons and our recommendations.
In this article, we’ll show you how healthcare professionals can access vital HSCN data remotely, without sacrificing on IT security.
For retailers, providing excellent customer service is crucial. Discover how retailers using Microsoft Office 365 to deliver faster, more productive results.
Credential stuffing can leave your business vulnerable. We look at the dangers of credential stuffing and what your business can do to stay protected.
A cloud migration is not a project to be run in isolation; this is a business transformation. Discover how to plan a successful migration here
With the right technology, you can accelerate your onboarding and induction process. We look at three different ways to support your organisation.
Cloud computing has transformed how we work and play online. But the cloud isn’t one thing; it spans a range of classifications, types, and architecture models. Most applications and services run...
Public clouds are one of the most recognised models of cloud computing today. They’re an efficient and economical way to pool tech resources and infrastructure in a virtualised environment. Those...
A proactive mindset and a SIEM strategy in place, businesses can massively reduce the risk of a cyber-attack. But what exactly is SIEM? Find out more in this article
The uncertainty caused by Covid is now very much an ongoing feature of business life for many. Covid has meant we have come to rely on a whole host of technologies that were once perceived as...
It’s no longer enough to simply move your workloads into the cloud and forget about them. From reduced costs to increased performance, the cloud provides the foundation your business needs to...
Technology is reshaping healthcare and changing how we look at and manage patient care, clinics, and medical facilities. Investment in healthcare technology is growing rapidly and is predicted to...
Interview with Tim Wilkinson – Group Operations Director at Redcentric We’ve been championing continuous improvement internally within Redcentric for many years now, so I’m really delighted to...
Did you know that, without sufficient cyber security , your retail business could face fines of up to €20 million? Not only that, but your reputation could also suffer irreparable damage. Indeed,...
The pandemic has resulted in rapid changes to the way we work, but it's not only the shift to remote working which CIOs have been hard-pressed to deal with. Read more here.
In a time where digital disruption seems to be constant, the need for business to embrace all things digital is accelerating. Companies understand that data, technology, and analytics are key to their...
Climate change presents one of the biggest environmental challenges our species has ever seen and as the impact is increasingly felt, it is becoming increasingly important for us all to reduce...
When selecting a supplier on the gigabit capable connectivity DPS framework to deliver your full-fibre project, you need someone you can trust. This blog looks at how to find a qualified supplier.
Remote work is evolving, not least because of Covid-19. From tech to healthcare, everyone's doing it. This article explores the future of remote working.
As companies come out of their fully remote working situations, many people wonder what their work lives will look like going forward. Will companies stay fully remote, or will they adopt a hybrid...
Working remotely is convenient, but remote employees may unintentionally put your company’s data and networks at risk. Unsecured wi-fi connections, unattended computers, and data breaches are...
Digital transformation is revolutionising UK healthcare. This guide explains its challenges, benefits and how it may help your organisation.
Your ability to access systems, applications and data at all times gives your customers confidence. Discover how a VMware cloud verified partner supports that.
How can legal firms drive additional value from their Microsoft Teams investments? We look at overlaying new capabilities to optimise productivity, client service and revenues.
Bringing your business up to speed with technology requires careful planning. This guide will explain how to execute a digital transformation successfully.
The retail sector is increasingly focused on adding value, building resilience and delivering innovation, we look at why MSPs are an attractive option for retailers.
The outcomes you might be seeking with digital transformation could be process optimisation, cost reduction or business continuity. But how do you overcome your challenges to get there?
Discover how you can use the Cisco Webex application to give you the flexibility to use Microsoft Teams for both internal and external calls.
When looking towards the future and considering how your organisation can thrive, read our tips on reviewing and using technology to thrive
During the global pandemic we look at how some organisations have been using technology to survive and set themselves up to thrive
How you can use a visual WAN dashboard to track your network performance to support your network availability and business growth.
A number of retailers are proving immensely resilient, all with a ‘bricks’ back story but a more recent history of strong digital transformation
Your complete guide to Wide Area Network (WAN) - what it is, what it’s main features are, why MPLS is so dominant and the challenge from SD-WAN.
This is your complete guide to the HSCN. Learn what it is, how it affects your health and social organisation and how you can connect to the HSCN.
Hybrid clouds allow organisations to benefit from both public and private cloud models. But how do you keep your hybrid cloud secure? Here are the best practices.
Outsourcing some functions to a managed IT service provider can bring huge benefits but how do you decide if it’s right for you? Our buyer’s guide explains.
How are other organisations using cloud to drive efficiencies and supporting their customers to deliver the services they need.
Network problems can put the brakes on your company’s productivity. Here are the 5 most common enterprise network problems and the best ways to solve them.
With the increase in connected devices globally, broadband network management is essential for businesses. Learn more about it and how it can benefit you.
Users want to work within a single interface across different devices for calling, messaging and meetings. Read how collaboration helps teams.
Organisations are becoming technology enabled to create the agility necessary to overcome the challenges of digital disruption. Read more here
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.
How did organisations keep direct dials, hunt groups and compliance in place when enabled their staff to work from home? We discuss in our blog.
How can you benefit when using a cloud service provider? This blog looks at how you can tap into a wider skills pool and get your solutions optimised.
We look what makes SD-WAN so appealing, how WAN got where it is and why there’s so much talk about network transformation.
A managed service provider (MSP) is a company that manages a range of IT services and infrastructure on behalf of an organisation. Read more here
Its important for remote workers to be able to access their data and applications. How do we ensure that they can do this quickly, easily and securely?
How are Call2Teams, PTSN capability from within MS Teams, helping organisations? We asked our customers their five key benefits.
Managed WAN Solutions can help your business with the agility it needs to scale. We've outlined 6 key benefits of Managed WAN Services in this short article.
A Buyers guide to managed network services. The key things you need to consider when investigating investing in managed networking for your business.
Here are 3 benefits of SD-WAN that can help you deliver a great user experience and at the same time, help you prepare your network for the future.
Are you thinking how your existing network provision can work harder or smarter? 8 signs you may need to integrate SD-WAN into your network strategy
As emerging business requirements arise like increasing user experience and new inititives, how can you ensure your network can support your future growth?
In this blog we look how IP telephony supports agile working by using functionality such as call forwarding and hunt groups whilst working from home.
With organisations having to quickly mobilise unified communication tools to support home working, is now the time to review the security of these systems?
Hybrid cloud is one of the cloud leading approaches, but managing these environments can get very complex. Our tips look at ways of managing hybrid cloud.
Achieve the full potential and value of cloud solutions. We look at different objectives and how your cloud strategy supports them in different scenarios.
With Unity on a SIM, you can extend your company’s PBX into your employee’s mobile devices, keeping them connected to your customers. Discover how here.
Offer your users a PSTN calling capability within their Microsoft Teams environment. Discover more about the value-add functionality within Calls2Teams.
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...
Secure remote access to HSCN services and data provides clinicians critical information to support them to make informed decisions on the move. Get your questions answered below on HSCN secure remote...
We can say that the time for “moving to the cloud” has now passed with 88% of UK businesses using public cloud services in 2018, but yet security still remains as a major worry. With such a large...
HSCN is an important transitional step towards the Internet First policy, making digital health and care services available over the internet. In this FAQs article we look at what will this mean for...
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...
Following the Government Digital Service’s effective green light to public sector use of the public cloud, health and care service providers and clinical application ISVs are keen to exploit public...
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...
Over the past five years, with the maturing of G-Cloud and the Cloud First approach, and the more recent green light given by Government to the use of public cloud, the public sector, including the...
One of the issues I have with much of the PR hoopla around SD-WAN is its tendency to major on the cost savings, with the implication that organisations could finally unshackle themselves for good from...
Proactive management, monitoring, securing and reporting of a complex network are difficult things to get right. Investing in managed network services can appear to be the answer, bringing you better...
Migrating to an IP telephony solution doesn’t have to cause downtime or disruption. Our tips look at how you can migrate to a IP telephony system smoothly. 1. Develop a strategy based on...
There was a time when organisations only had to concentrate on their core offer: baking cakes, selling furniture, making cars, providing care etc. But over the past three decades, every specialist...
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provides the ability to run many customer servers on the same physical server hardware through the use of server virtualisation. The concept is a repeat of the...
Many companies are still using traditional backup methods which can cause issues and be ineffective in comparison to online data backup solutions. We look at common issues come with traditional onsite...
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...
This article will review one aspect of the ODI product, the concept of “Knowledge Modules”, and discuss how these can be used to stream-line the ETL development process through the use of...
Legacy environments, ageing hardware and heavily integrate systems are creating a drive for more government departments and public sector bodies to transition to a Cloud-based future to leverage...
Back in May 2013, the then coalition government formally introduced the ‘Cloud First’ policy that has done so much subsequently to drive and shape IT procurement and deployment across the public...
There are many reasons for relocating your IT equipment to a new data centre, varying from a refresh of equipment currently running in-house to dissatisfaction with an existing data centre to a desire...
Hybrid Cloud is starting to influence many an enterprise IT strategy so we take a quick run-through of some of the key things you need to know about IT’s latest trending topic. What is Hybrid...
ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, a broadband communications technology that can run over existing copper telephone lines. Through a single ADSL connection users can make voice calls...
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,...
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...
This article will review the web service features of ODI and discuss how they can be used to develop and deploy a ‘data service’ layer that will prove critical within a Service Oriented...
By the end of the decade, the NHS’s N3 wide area network will have passed into IT history: as of 2017, the transition to the next generation Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) will begin....
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is best visualised as sitting at the base of a three-tier Cloud computing pyramid that also comprises PaaS (Platform as a Service) in the middle and SaaS (Software...
This article compares the two systems and highlights the similarities, differences and details what is to be gained by moving over to Hyperion Planning from OFA. It also looks at the methodology to...
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...
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...
Software as a Service (SaaS) is best visualised as sitting at the top of a three-tier Cloud computing pyramid that also comprises PaaS (Platform as a Service) in the middle and IaaS (Infrastructure as...
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...
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,...
Essentially, the key to Disaster Recovery success is having a realistic and well understood set of objectives that are based on the business needs. This involves planning and preparation, from the...
The technology industry loves its confusing terminologies and TLAs (three-letter acronyms). Things had improved mainly because of the consumerisation of IT but yet there still exist a lot of different...
What would happen to your business if you experienced a catastrophic data loss? Would your business survive? The statistics are alarming, 43% of businesses never re-open after a major disaster. A well...
SQL Server professionals have always been locked in the dilemma of which SQL Server High Availability solution to recommend to clients who require a cheap, easy to install and reliable solution. In...
At Redcentric we’ve a long history of doing business with the public sector, and like anyone else working within this sector we’re well aware of the Government’s Business Impact...
For all the media’s fascination with the apparent inexorability of uber-sophisticated cyber attacks on our nation’s businesses and organisations, recent events have shown that security risks can...
Given the rate of data growth along with the increasing importance of business information, a cost effective, offsite data archiving service can deliver significant business benefits. A good data...
These are interesting times for public sector ICT teams. On the one hand, you have Government progressively moving the narrative towards ‘Cloud Native’ – an aspiration for ‘born in the...
Despite the remarkable advances in online shopping, I’m still staggered when the order I submitted late on Sunday evening turns up at my front door before midday on Monday. How do they do that? As...
As of April this year, all health and care organisations will fully transition to the Health and Social Care Network (HSCN), leaving N3 a thing of IT past. For over fifteen years, N3 has provided a...
Data backup is required by all businesses. With legal requirements tightening and data volumes growing out of control, traditional tape backup is no longer a reliable or cost effective means of...
As DevOps moves from early adopter territory into the mainstream, there is the inevitable evolution in how it is described. As with Agile before it, ask twenty people to define DevOps and you’ll get...
According to recent research by CompTIA only 4% of firms have actually rolled out a full Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy. In it’s Third Annual Trends in Enterprise Mobility research, CompTIA...
In 2016 Redcentric announced that it was offering connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which was a logical move given customer demand for AWS requiring N3 connectivity and cloud services. We...
Another week and another cloud service provider bites the dust. OK, so I am being a little dramatic, it’s been a few months since the last high profile closure. But whether it’s one day or 100...
As threats continue to evolve and evade traditional security measures, these next generation solutions are able to provide advanced application level security to protect the network while delivering...
We look at the features and benefits of the BT 21CN network as well as common questions about the service. 1. WHAT IS BT’S 21CN? BT is investing billions of pounds in changing out the various UK...
There’s no doubt that the advantages of SIP trunking over ISDN30 are being recognised but anecdotal evidence from our customers suggests that many network providers are reluctant to actively sell...
Communication technology is so ubiquitous in our personal lives that we forget it can be a challenge to implement effective communication technology in the workplace. Decades of siloed infrastructure...
Public sector procurement of IT services and products has undergone something of a makeover in recent years. When once we ran slow, onerous, cumbersome and expensive processes, today things are...
I’ve been asked a couple of times recently whether our support for SD-WAN is a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas? After all, Redcentric has built a business on managed networking and the...
An article in CRN argues that many users do not understand the risks of Internet telephony. The author, the CEO of a security consultancy, is right to be concerned about the complexities and...
As an IT professional with a particular interest in data and Cloud services, I often stumble across nuggets of information that grab my attention. I’m sure I’m not alone in my fondness for facts...
Over the past decade no other industry has been disrupted by technology quite as much as retail; so much so, consumers now consider retailers without up-to-date technology to be untrustworthy....
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...
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...
Twenty years ago many organisations were looking at the Microsoft and Citrix combination to help them engineer a server back-end that could simplify and streamline sysadmin, extend the life of ageing...
Unified Communications (UC) solutions are moving into the cloud, at pace, and this year, with particular focus on collaboration as a UC adjunct, will function as the tipping point for this migration....
Combining LDRS, STPS and the Nhs Five Year Forward View As the NHS continues its program of digital transformation, technology strategies also have to change and mould in order to adhere to the...