9 best practices to boost your clients’ enterprise network performance Posted on April 11, 2018 by Adam Burke For your clients to attain the network performance their enterprises need, point them to these nine best practices: 1 Plan for continued bandwidth growth Your clients will need to prepare for 5G mobility, the internet of things (IoT), video conferencing, collaboration tools, etc. — all of which will accelerate bandwidth demand. Continue reading →
Enterprise network performance challenges and the technologies that can help Posted on March 7, 2018 by Adam Burke Do your clients strain to keep their data networks at the performance levels necessary to stay competitive? Four network performance challenges Your clients may be facing one or all of these: 1 More data traffic and faster, too. Annual global IP traffic is increasing by 24% per year and will hit 3.3 zettabytes (3.3 trillion gigabytes) by 2021, when broadband speeds will have nearly doubled. Continue reading →
7 employee-focused ways your clients can defend against ransomware Posted on June 7, 2017 by Adam Burke As ransomware goes, WannaCry spread spectacularly far and fast, aiming at enterprises more than consumers – but with meager effect on many, thanks to data backups. Kudos for all those IT people who take their data backup duties seriously! Continue reading →
Making your clients’ networks smart enough Posted on May 10, 2017 by Adam Burke The software-defined, self-optimizing network architecture that ’s so essential to your clients ’ ability to stay in business demands intelligence across the entire network – not just your clients ’ network core but their network edge, too. Continue reading →
Help your clients keep their customers happy – with an enterprise network transformation Posted on April 5, 2017 by Adam Burke Do your clients pay attention to customer experience? If not, they certainly should. Several studies point to how poor customer experiences in multi-channel, mobile, and self-service interactions negatively impact buying decisions. And no wonder – by 2020, 85% of a typical customer’s interaction with an enterprise will not involve a human being. Continue reading →
Cloud best practices that strengthen security and performance Posted on February 8, 2017 by Adam Burke As I mentioned in my last post, organizations increasingly use multiple cloud services and hybrid clouds. Boosting cloud security with infrastructure and standards Cloud services providers are also deploying new cloud technologies like automation, microservices, containers, and so on, that boost cloud performance and make public cloud services as secure, or even more secure, than traditional on-premises environments. Continue reading →
When downtime strikes Posted on November 15, 2016 by Adam Burke Lurking behind many downtime incidents are mundane causes – a failed UPS, human error, a malfunctioning component. But increasingly, your clients will discover downtime causes stemming from a class of culprits best characterized as IT complexity. Continue reading →
Turning networking hassles into a network services strategy Posted on June 14, 2016 by Adam Burke In my last post, I pointed out the sorts of pressures today’s competitive needs place on your customers’ network services — hassles related to application workloads, network performance, security, compliance, and more. At first glance, these may seem like patchwork problems to be addressed with patchwork solutions. But they may also signal deeper issues that, with a closer look, bring you face to face with the (often legacy) limitations of your customer’s data network. Continue reading →
