04 July 2024

Tamblyn Calman, sales & marketing director, QNAP

Choosing the right NAS for an enterprise environment requires careful consideration of several critical factors to ensure it meets the specific needs of the business. These factors include connectivity options, types of drives, and intended usage scenarios.

07 June 2024

Kristian Torode, director and co-founder, Crystaline

Undoubtedly, unified communications (UC) is the way to go for the future of work, combining several communication tools into one system for better productivity and easier working. When selecting a system, organisations must ensure they understand their requirements — the number of users, types of communication channels, integration needs with existing systems, mobility requirements, security and compliance considerations and scalability.

Large enterprises are constantly evolving, and therefore require a solution that’s dynamic enough to change with the organisation itself. Look for a platform that can accommodate increasing numbers of users, devices, and locations without compromising performance or requiring significant reconfiguration. Platforms with robust mobile applications are key; they’re downloadable on any device, meaning employees can stay connected and productive from anywhere, whether they’re in the office, working remotely or on the go. By providing employees with the flexibility to access communication and collaboration tools from any location or device, you can empower them to work more efficiently and effectively, regardless of their physical location.

16 May 2024

Jon Taylor, director and principal of security, Versa Networks

Organisations face significant challenges when securing their digital transformation initiatives as traditional perimeter boundaries are dissolving due to cloud and hybrid work, leaving the edge network wherever users and devices exist.

08 May 2024

VimalRaj Sampathkumar, technical head - UK & Ireland, ManageEngine

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, mobile devices have become indispensable tools. That’s particularly true in the workplace, with employees even relying on their mobile devices to access apps such as WhatsApp to communicate about work.

For IT teams, keeping track of these devices and everything on them poses a cybersecurity challenge. And businesses that follow a bring your own device (BYOD) policy, where employees can access private work data and channels from their own devices, are especially vulnerable.

09 April 2024

Alison Matte, sustainability lead, EcoStruxure IT, Secure Power Division, Schneider Electric

Data centres continue to see unprecedented growth and the IDC forecasts a steep climb in data centre energy consumption, partially driven by generative AI, anticipating a growth to 803TWh by 2027, which marks a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16%.

In context, the growth represents the total energy consumption of France in 2022, and it is this growth which is causing countries to create regulations to manage the impact that IT and data centres are having on the grid. For new regulatory requirements to be achieved, Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools have never been more important.