Insights

7 September 2020

Why SD-WAN needs to be de-hyped

SD-WAN has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it quickly becomes the new ‘thing’ that everyone wants and is spending big money on. However, while there are benefits to SD-WAN, there has been significant hype on the appropriation of the technology for UK based companies. By debunking the hype and cutting through all the marketing madness, IT professionals can make correct decisions when it comes to their network.

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Justin Day

12 August 2020

What does IT infrastructure look like in a post-Covid world?

No one can predict what the future of work looks like in terms of how individual businesses will operate - but what’s certain is that everyone should be looking at their IT infrastructure to address future operations and business continuity needs.

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Cloud Gateway

18 May 2020

Balancing agility and security in healthcare

Business leaders have been looking to cloud technologies in order to provide flexibility as we all tackle how businesses might operate moving forward. However, between private networks and legacy technology, the NHS faces a mammoth challenge.

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Justin Day

7 May 2020

Stop letting solutions define your requirements

Too often we speak to businesses who have been distracted by a shiny new tech solution. Companies need to thoroughly understand and define their business needs before they embark on cloud deployment or transformation.

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Justin Day

22 April 2020

Ditching the cloud for hybrid infrastructure

The benefits that cloud can bring to businesses are widely understood. The cloud promised to transform businesses with speed, security and scale. However, it can only achieve that if the fit is right. However businesses that migrated to the cloud, sometimes with a single vendor, suffered huge financial losses and have now started to adopt a hybrid infrastructure approach.

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Francis Bell

6 April 2020

Don’t put all your eggs in one (cloud) basket

Selecting the most appropriate cloud tools for your business is a tricky task. The choice is seemingly endless, with a host of different providers offering platforms on which to build, buy, and innovate in lots of different ways. There are already more than enough articles talking about hybrid cloud and multicloud strategy. Instead, let’s talk about Easter eggs.

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Justin Day

30 March 2020

Redefining Agile Networking

Being ‘agile’ is usually seen as having the power of being able to move quickly and easily. The cloud’s widespread accessibility and adoption has created an opportunity for network vendors to provide a service that gives their customers power and not restrictions.

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Neil Briscoe

26 March 2020

How can cloud and hybrid connectivity support business continuity during Covid19 and beyond?

Current circumstances and rules surrounding Covid19 control and containment have forced companies to shift operations to remote working policies. But if this has highlighted one thing across all industries, it’s that IT and telecoms infrastructure has not been set up to be able support an entire workforce to securely access company ecosystems from home. But there are options which can support business operations in the short and long term

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Cloud Gateway

12 March 2020

Simplifying your journey to multicloud with interconnection

The digital economy is one of the key drivers in the move to multicloud and its becoming the new enterprise normal. Are you recognising the need to be more responsive, flexible and cost conscious within your organisation?

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Cloud Gateway

2 March 2020

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) – what is it and what value can it bring?

In August 2019, Gartner released a new research report titled 'The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud’. The report single-handedly changed what the future landscape for IT and networking professionals looks like. It’s rightfully believed to have kick started a very exciting time of change for the industry and everyone's watching to see how this new shift unfolds.

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