Today's business world is moving more quickly, and more global, mobile, and connected. Technologies are being developed every day to help employees collaborate, communicate, and build capacity.
Moreover, as businesses adopt cloud services and unified communications, the IT department needs to look for more cost effective ways to improve the performance, availability and connectivity, particularly for businesses with multiple branches across several locations.
So how do they do this? Ralph Berndt, director of sales at Syrex, says any organisation looking to achieve better collaboration and connectivity should look to do several things, such as moving to better and faster connectivity mediums such as fibre, and moving mail and collaboration to software as a service such as Microsoft O365 or G Suite.
In addition, he suggests migrating from an on premises investment for applications, to private or public cloud infrastructure as a service. "In addition, they need to ensure last mile resilience to enable guaranteed uptime to access the private and public cloud, and should leverage NGFW security platforms to ensure better management of risk and data protection."
He also says they should consider hybrid WAN. "Hybrid WAN technology is built on delivering MPLS on both layer 2 and Internet connections to achieve a WAN network for the client. This is ideal for multi-site organisations looking to communicate more effectively either privately or into the public domain or cloud."
Berndt says hybrid WAN designs ensure better economies of scale, as it leverages off of both premium and broadband last mile technology, without exposing the organisation to uptime risk. "In this way, everything the business needs can be in one place too."
However, as most businesses make use of multiple vendors, he says Syrex recommends using a model that allows the organisation to leverage off of a carrier agnostic vendor that can bring multiple access providers into a solution. "The organisation then still has one point of reference when dealing with its infrastructure and future technology landscape."
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