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Enhance Your Network Connectivity with SD-WAN: A Game-Changer for IT Solutions

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Enhance Your Network Connectivity with SD-WAN: A Game-Changer for IT Solutions

While embarking on the wave of current IT trends, one technology stands out as a transformative force – SD-WAN. However, before diving in, it’s crucial to ask: does SD-WAN align with the unique needs of your organization? In this blog post, we’ll delve into the distinctive advantages of SD-WAN, offering insights to help you ascertain whether it’s the perfect fit for optimizing your IT infrastructure.

Dynamic, Policy-Based Application Path Selection

SD-WAN, or Software-Defined Wide Area Network, serves as a contemporary replacement for traditional Wide Area Networks (WANs). Its defining feature lies in its ability to offer dynamic, policy-based application path selection and Quality of Service (QoS)-based routing. This means you can prioritize elements in your network’s communications, leading to improved efficiency and performance.

Enhanced Redundancy and Resiliency

One of the key advantages of SD-WAN is its capability to increase redundancy and resiliency across all your locations. In the event of a circuit failure, SD-WAN seamlessly redirects the traffic to an available circuit, ensuring uninterrupted operations. This redundancy feature is crucial for maintaining a stable and reliable network, especially for organizations with multiple locations.

Cost-Effective Connectivity

SD-WAN allows you to connect lower-cost transport with multiple methodologies for your corporate, remote, and contract users. Whether your organization has a single location or thousands, SD-WAN can optimize network connection capabilities and provide a cost-effective solution for your connectivity needs.

Seamless Cloud Connectivity

Embracing the cloud? SD-WAN facilitates seamless connectivity with both private and public cloud environments. This ensures that your organization can fully leverage the benefits of cloud services without compromising on network performance.

Direct Connection for Software and Applications

Concerned about the connectivity of your company’s software and applications? SD-WAN allows the direct connection of customized Software as a Service (SaaS) and applications to the Internet. This streamlined approach enhances overall network efficiency and ensures a smooth user experience.

Is SD-WAN Right for You?

The answer lies in your organization’s specific requirements. If you need improved network performance, enhanced redundancy, cost-effective connectivity, and seamless integration with the cloud, then SD-WAN is undoubtedly the right choice for you.

Technology Navigation: Your SD-WAN Solution Partner

Determining the right SD-WAN supplier for your organization can be a complex task. That’s where Technology Navigation comes in. We specialize in handling the most challenging aspects of sourcing an IT solution, including requirement determination, supplier handling, contract negotiation, augmented installation, and ongoing support.

Let us guide you through the process of sourcing, installing, and supporting your SD-WAN solution. With Technology Navigation, you can maximize the benefits of SD-WAN without the hassle of navigating the intricacies of the IT landscape. Contact us today to start your journey towards a more efficient and resilient network infrastructure.

IT Trends for 2023: Reverse Migration, Cross Multi-Cloud, and Cost Control for SaaS

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IT Trends for 2023: Reverse Migration, Cross Multi-Cloud, and Cost Control for SaaS

By Chis Newell
Founder & President

As a key driver for emerging technologies, Cloud Computing has come a long way since its inception in the 1960s. A 2022 research study indicates at least sixty percent of corporate data is now stored in the Cloud. However, effective tracking of Cloud resources to prevent poor expense-related management remains a major challenge. No wonder, organizations stand unaware of their spending data or strategy, chiefly due to Cloud Services Sprawl.


This article is a mull over on IT trends for 2023 where reverse Cloud Migration, Cloud Sprawl, Cross Multi-Cloud, and Cost Control model for SaaS might gain prominence. Got questions about other technology verticals for this year?

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Reverse Cloud Migration — Transitioning from public to on-premises or private clouds

The theoretical concept of saving money in the Public Cloud has been channeling Data Migration needs for companies over the past decade. However, the last leg of 2021 saw organizations increasingly shifting their data to on-premise storage or Private Clouds while still utilizing the Public Cloud for Compute. The reasons weren’t obscure:

  • Value-added services and throughput rates raising public cloud expenses
  • Hyper-scale Cloud Platform providers (AWS, GCP, and Azure) failing to keep their operating margins lower and price gouging
  • Large data set migration cost for companies going past their estimated budget and data gravity truly impacting increased costs

Come 2023, a reverse Cloud Migration (from public to on-premise or private cloud) creates a predictable and less expensive price point for companies

Cross Multi-Cloud Computing is the game changer

Research depicts that more than ninety percent of large-scale enterprises with Multi-Cloud Architecture have their data distributed across providers.

As newer applications proliferate, data serves multiple use cases – analytics, streaming, business intelligence, and data sciences. Even with drawbacks like data silos and duplication, fragmented governance, and increased costs, cross-multi-cloud computing continues to gain leverage with organizations.

In essence, it can help organizations:

  • Work with an agile, cross-cloud, semantic business layer managing data lakes and warehouses.
  • Make cross-region data replication possible and still not impact primary data performance.
  • Analyze data for decision-making, irrespective of its location.
  • Ensure continuity of business as well as disaster recovery via cross-cloud replication.
  • Perform account migrations minus concerns of data portability.

Cost Control for SaaS- Channel budget for significant cloud assets

Cloud Cost Control for SaaS helps manage multiple facilities like software apps, storage, and virtual machines.

Reportedly, an industry survey on cloud cost control cited 40% of respondents admitting cloud cost control as the biggest challenge. For enterprises, this is a real change in how they conduct business.

It calls for a criterion to save time and money in tandem:

  • Adopt Cloud Cost Management Tools: Cloud cost management tools can raise alarms against any usual activity and helps define inventories for your Cloud computer and enterprise SaaS products. Further, it helps users log in seamlessly and optimize costs selectively.
  • Utilize a SaaS Aggregator: Many of the most prominent SaaS offerings can be managed through a single provider or aggregator.  Having the ability to manage SaaS subscriptions and products through a single GUI will leverage economies of scale and decrease management time

The takeaway

Embracing IT trends fueled by cloud demands draws attention to data, Compute Management, and possibly a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure.

In essence, adopting a functional cloud and SaaS strategy will help put a leash on issues like Cloud Sprawl that lurks heavily upon organizations.

A good call would be to engage an optimization partner to bring intelligent views on cloud and SaaS expenses across all cost centers.

Do you have more questions or like to learn more about IT trends for 2023?

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Multi-cloud Strategy: the more, the merrier 

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Multi-cloud Strategy: the more, the merrier 

By Chis Newell
Founder & President

Cloud technology has been highly adopted by businesses across the country. According to Gartner, 85% of enterprises will adopt a cloud first strategy by 2025.  

What comes next? Cloud diversification: the process by which a business uses multiple cloud environments (Hybrid, Private and Public) to house everything from software applications to workloads to assets to redundancies. This multi-cloud strategy is a simplistic concept of using multiple vendors for security, flexibility, redundancy, and cost savings.  

Having all your eggs in one basket is seldom a good idea for any enterprise. By using more than one cloud service, companies can augment their organization’s ability to stay online, all while lowering costs and maximizing the different strengths of different cloud environments.  

Security & Uptime 

Anytime a company is putting its assets into a cloud environment, it is taking the risk of attacks from cybercriminals, hackers, and unexpected downtime. By having different resources on disparate cloud services, even a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack won’t be able to shut down your business entirely. If one cloud goes down for legitimate or criminal reasons, the rest can shoulder the load until the attack is rebuffed.  

According to Gartner, the average cost per hour of downtime for a company ranges from $140,000-$540,000. That is not a hit most companies can afford to take. Wrapping multi cloud security posture will also enable clients to limit a security event to a “north / south” penetration and not “east / west”, effectively containing the issue until it can be resolved.  
 

Flexibility 

Cloud-hosting providers have diversified their product offerings from simple storage environments to dedicated heavy processing private clouds, hyperscale clouds like AWS and Azure, community share resource clouds and so on.  

Different parts of your organization will have different requirements for workloads, and there is no point in overpaying for something you’ll never use. Picking and choosing from different cloud vendors to find the best match for each part of your business is the smarter play. Using multiple cloud providers and product offerings is becoming the norm.  
 

Catastrophe-Proof 

An acronym no IT person wants to see is SPOF – single point of failure. It can be a flaw in design without the proper, implementation, or configuration. If one SPOF goes down, it takes everything down with it. Think the Death Star from the original Star Wars film; one well-placed Luke Skywalker proton torpedo and the whole place turned into an ashtray.  

A well designed multi-cloud strategy keeps a SPOF from taking an environment down at any point. There have been a few cloud companies that have unexpectedly gone out of business or locked their clients out of their environment in the past decade.  

Most recent well known example of this was when AWS suspended Parler in 2020, effectively taking down the conservative social media site. Albeit this is an extreme example, it shows the importance of having a well-designed multi-cloud strategy.  

Conclusion 

Diversity and functionality are the goals of every IT organization., By engaging a multi-cloud strategy, companies can keep costs and security threats down while raising their ROI by choosing the right cloud design for all their needs.