Just as the cloud has enabled a highly customisable, subscription-based approach to almost everything consumers and businesses seek to consume, organisations are viewing the network as the next logical step for a consumption-based approach. The recently released Deloitte 2022 Technology Industry Outlook looks at how leaders across all industries are embracing service-based IT - delivered via cloud - for increased agility, new capabilities, and better management of capacity and costs.

The end-goal for a CIO adopting a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) approach is to create a predictable, cloud-like consumption model for enterprise infrastructure. NaaS is designed to ensure that the enterprise network is state of the art and continually adopts innovations, frees the enterprise IT staff from monitoring tasks, rolls up the range of SLAs, and reduces the need for specialist skills in-house.

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is evolving at a rapid pace and while some of the early predictions for tens of billions of connected devices by 2022 have proved to be wide of the mark, the use cases are so varied that explosive adoption is likely. However, the encroachment of IoT into all aspects of our personal and business lives brings with it plenty of concerns, from security and data ownership, to business models that acknowledge and enable the global nature of connected devices.

If the events of the last two years have proved anything it is that businesses need to be prepared for the unexpected. The ability to embrace change and adapt rapidly to uncertainty has become essential for businesses. In 2021, Console Connect continued to put agility at the heart of our organisation – both in terms of our approach to technology innovation, and also in how our automated platform is helping businesses embrace digital transformation.

As 2021 draws to a close and all the industry commentators make their predictions for the coming year - the continued and dizzying growth of cloud services is high on the agenda. In this blog, we take a deeper look at how businesses are utilising the cloud and what impact this is having on global IT spend…

Bandwidth demands per enterprise site continue to skyrocket, while additional pressure has been added to the WAN in the wake of the pandemic and shift to remote working, moving demand from well-connected offices to a scattering of disparate locations. Yet, while WAN bandwidth demands are increasing by orders of magnitude every year, budgets rarely keep pace and significant numbers of those ‘better connected’ branch locations experience network congestion during peak hours.

The buzz from the COP26 climate conference which took place in Glasgow in November can still be heard, and it’s no small wonder that IT infrastructure – in particular the cloud and data centre sector - featured as a prominent part of the conversation. In this blog we look at some of the steps being taken by cloud providers and data centre operators to build towards a more sustainable future.

In terms of topology, enterprise IT infrastructure looks very different today compared to ten years ago. In this blog we look at how the acceleration in cloud adoption is causing new network considerations for businesses...

In this blog we look at how Console Connect is providing Acquire BPO, an Australia-based contact centre and business process outsourcing company, with greater control and agility over its global network infrastructure...

Since the turn of the century, Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) has been the de facto technology for providing organisations with a robust way of connecting branch offices and important sites like corporate headquarters or private data centres. In this blog, we look at how the role of MPLS networks has evolved alongside the emergence of new networking technologies.