Today, networks must support increasing numbers of devices, including smartphones and tablets, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and a host of other connected systems. Organizations are also adopting AI-powered tools, which require a constant flow of data.
Automation and digitalization have become vital to business success. It’s a rather simple choice for organizations – change leverage technology to increase efficiency or risk falling behind those that do.
However, many organizations are struggling to develop and implement a plan to guide the evolution of their IT environments.
There has always been a need to analyze network performance data to understand how to utilize resources most efficiently. This need has only increased with growing numbers of users and devices connecting to the network. However, traditional network monitoring tools have inherent limitations.
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To one degree or another, almost every business today is dependent upon technology. While smaller organizations may not require enterprise-class systems and platforms, they almost certainly are using communication and collaboration tools, networked computers, cloud services and a variety of applications.
During a year of extreme uncertainty for most businesses, one thing became exceptionally certain — advanced wireless technology will be critical to operational agility, resilience and innovation for the foreseeable future.
When the pandemic forced much of the global workforce to become isolated, wireless communications enabled vital connectivity.
Financial managers recommend building a diversified portfolio of investments in several different companies and industries in order to reduce your risk profile. In a similar way, network segmentation limits cybersecurity risks by breaking up the corporate network into smaller, isolated parts.
Wireless networks have evolved from a “nice-to-have” feature to a mission-critical component of the IT infrastructure. Organizations that depend on mobile devices are equally dependent on Wi-Fi — sometimes more than they are the wired network.
But even organizations that rely primarily on wireless still require a high-performance, back-end wired network.
In Part 1, we explained why the benefits of a network refresh far outweigh the risk of continuing to operate outdated network infrastructure. Legacy networks weren’t built to support today’s demands. Automation is more difficult to implement, and compliance and security are tougher to monitor and maintain.
Many small to midsize businesses are hesitant to replace existing technology because they fear high costs and disruption to business operations. At the end of the day, they often decide to roll the dice with what they have rather than deal with the potential risk and uncertainty of the unknown.
Without access to business applications, data and cloud resources, many organizations can’t function. In a best-case scenario, operations are severely limited, which results in low productivity, missed deadlines, lost sales, a poor customer experience and high mitigation costs.
