The Masiello Group, a large regional provider of real estate and home ownership services, turned to Windstream for a flexible, scalable solution to connect their business with multiple offices across four states. The nature of their business requires that employees have the capability to transition from the office environment to the field without interruption. Discover ...
The software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has emerged as the solution for enterprises embracing cloud computing as a means to realizing digital transformation. In this IDC brief, learn why the need for SD-WAN will be even greater than the need for SDN in the data center, especially when an organization’s application profile is migrating toward public cloud ...
Distributed enterprises are finding that legacy WAN technologies are creating pain points in the digital era, prompting the need for a new WAN paradigm. Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has emerged as an architecture that improves visibility and optimization among common WAN connectivity protocols, while promising reduced costs, improved performance, and enhanced security and control over applications ...
An information technology juggernaut has left the station, gathering tremendous momentum as it rolls toward virtually every midsize and large organization. No, it’s not the Internet of Things, software containers or even big data. It’s the software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), a groundbreaking technology many expect to double in market size in each of the next ...
A younger, mobile workforce; technological advances; and a demand for more cost-effective communications solutions with predictable expenses and greater control are driving the move to the cloud. By using a cloud model for unified communications and collaboration, now established as unified communications as a service (UCaaS), organizations can lower costs significantly, reduce complexity, and improve ...
Network downtime is never welcome. Today, businesses depend so much on their mission-critical applications that any downtime is unacceptable. They simply can’t afford it. In today’s mission-critical business environment, no one is immune. Network managers at mid- to large-sized enterprises need to get serious about doing everything they can to reduce network downtime to zero. ...
In this Whitepaper, we examine key factors that lead to savings with the adoption of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), offering deeper insights and comparisons of total cost of ownership for a UCaaS solution versus customer-owned IP PBX. While many IT professionals believe the total cost of ownership of on-premises IP PBX is lower ...
Successful companies leverage technology to drive innovation, yet many IT organizations do not devote the time or resources to support innovation. Read on for six key traits of an innovation leader. See where you fall in the mix and steps you can take to advance your innovation agenda.
Cloud-based office telephone/unified communications systems leveraging broadband Internet are now the solution of choice for businesses of every shape and size. But as organizations increase their reliance on cloud applications—placing increased pressure on a finite amount of network bandwidth—performance and reliability can be an issue. Especially with quality-sensitive applications such as voice and video, where ...
By using a cloud model for unified communications and collaboration, now established as UCaaS (or Unified Communications as a Service) — organizations can lower costs significantly, reduce complexity and improve enduser productivity and customer experience. For savvy IT and business leaders, present-day communications and collaboration are already in the cloud. Yet, the outlook is moving ...