To achieve the network performance your business needs now and going forward, consider implementing these nine best practices:
1 Plan for continued bandwidth growth
The embrace of 5G mobility, the internet of things (IoT), video conferencing, collaboration tools, etc., means network bandwidth demand will keep growing. You’ll need to anticipate and budget accordingly.
In my last post, I described four challenges to network performance that your enterprise needs to overcome network complexity, achieve network visibility, and stay competitive — growth in data traffic and data speed, the arrival of 5G, intensifying network complexity, and heightened risk of security breaches.
So let’s look at some the key technologies that address these challenges, often by working in concert:
The ways we use and communicate information are changing so fast that it can be tough to keep your enterprise network at the performance levels the business needs to stay competitive . So I’m going to warn you about four challenges to network performance you cannot afford to ignore:
1 Growth in data traffic – and data speed
Annual global IP traffic is increasing by 24% per year . Yearly data traffic will hit 3.3 zettabytes – that is, 3.3 trillion gigabytes – by 2021, up from “just” 1.2 zettabytes in 2016.
Meanwhile, broadband speeds will nearly double by 2021 , reaching 53.0 Mbps, up from 27.5 Mbps in 2016.
2 Arrival of 5G
Game-changing fifth-generation (5G) Wi-Fi is nearly upon us with such capabilities as…
In my last post, I listed five ways that managed/hosted services providers can help power the IT-driven competitive advantage organizations need. Here’s what those providers must deliver in order to…
1 Flexibly choose and integrate customized IT solutions
As our story about RCU’s dramatic experience shows, disaster recovery has become an essential part of every business. Unfortunately, many of those seeking effective DR come away empty-handed, convinced that protection is out of reach, the cost too great.
If that’s been your experience, you’re talking with the wrong people.
Disaster recovery is possible for everyone. To get it, you need to know what sort of protections your operation truly needs and then understand how today’s DR options can be matched to your requirements
It’s pretty easy these days for your IT operations to feel a bit out of control as you field all those demands to deploy IT resources in the cause of creating competitive advantage.
Your budget doesn’t budge much, but the demands certainly do. Throw more workloads into more and different clouds while somehow also adequately overseeing and supporting all those cloud, managed, and co–location services. Accelerate application development . Achieve greater scalability . Ensure that your enterprise data–as well as access to it–is always sufficiently secure .
