Leading in Business Through Better Cloud and Digital Infrastructure Resiliency

Digital transformation can deliver a number of significant benefits for organizations, including more data-driven business insights to drive new opportunities, increased agility, enhanced customer and employee experience, a more productive workforce, greater collaboration with partners, improved competitiveness and higher profits—to name a few.

ConvergeOne can help you find the right path forward.

There are good reasons most large enterprises worldwide are quickly adopting the cloud for everything from sales contracts and product specs to videos and overall business operations. The cloud offers flexible, scalable, and cost-effective computing that cuts down IT costs, consolidates data centers, accelerates growth and enables digital transformation. Migration to the cloud has accelerated in the post-pandemic hybrid work world and more recently as companies battle inflation and rising real estate costs.

RAY BAUM’s Act requires that first responders have the necessary information needed to pinpoint the “dispatchable location,” and quickly reach a 9-1-1 caller regardless of the device they dial from, or their exact location inside a large building.

The City of Henderson, Nevada, serves 320,000 residents. ConvergeOne became the city’s go-to networking partner after supporting a firewall transition, assisting with training, implementation and long-term strategic planning for leveraging new technologies. ConvergeOne also helped set up rapid deployment kits that allowed the city’s emergency management and safety department to quickly and efficiently deploy COVID testing and inoculation centers.

“Having rapid deployment kits and partnering with ConvergeOne made us able to be heroes for city management and the activities that they want to do, and for our office of emergency management and safety to be able to deploy rapidly,” said Jared Hansen, IT Infrastructure Manager, City of Henderson, Nevada.

When forming a hybrid cloud to consume cloud-hosted services, secure and reliable network connectivity is an obvious requirement. While VPN is a great way to get started for private PaaS/IaaS, it is still at the mercy of the dynamic and vulnerable nature of the enterprise internet service provider’s Public Internet BGP routing exchanges. This can lead to the occasional sub-optimal routing, with latency and jitter impacting the services the enterprise is consuming. This also impacts non-VPN, publicly reachable, SaaS-delivered services hosted in the cloud. The solution to all these problems is a Direct Connect (DX) circuit to AWS with BGP peering.

Rinchem is a chemical management solutions provider with plans to grow by 14-19 sites over the next few years. One of its biggest challenges is gaining the stability needed so that it can provide a reliable network and ensure the availability of all services. With ConvergeOne’s guidance, Rinchem has taken a methodical approach to cloud migration that has allowed it to get to the next generation of technology while having business continuity in place at all times.

“There are vendors and there are partners, and ConvergeOne is certainly a partner. We have cutting-edge technology. We have good, reliable solutions. They’ve really helped take us to the next level,” said Vickie Urias, Director of IT Operations and Corporate PMO, Rinchem.

This article originally appeared in Security Magazine.

The past two years have seen a drastic shift in the way we work, with many organizations having to quickly make the move from an office-based environment to a hybrid work environment. Now, with hybrid ways of working becoming standard, leaders are focusing on digitally transforming their businesses to adapt to and compete in the new normal. Yet in the rush to adjust, they can forget a foundational and business-critical issue – cyber security.

With the looming threats of natural disasters and cyber disasters like ransomware, organizations need to position themselves to defend against constant threats while still providing value to their customers.

I find that there are a lot of misconceptions about what CPaaS actually is. The term “Communication Platform as a Service” can mislead you into thinking it is a very broad and inclusive term.