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when making the move to the cloud. Hosting data off-site in someone else’s system raises understandable security questions and concerns. Organizations migrating to the cloud might feel like when they move their data and systems to the cloud, they lose visibility that they previously had when they were on-premises.
Working closely with cloud providers
is a great way to gain insight into security practices and feel more in control. As a part of ensuring future interoperability and data portability, a best practice is to request the adoption of open standards and protocols. Open standards can help ensure the future extensibility of your solution and safeguard you from creating data islands or facing vendor lock-in. Ultimately, it can give you the confidence that your data will remain usable later.
Pain Point: Cross-department Integration
Information silos are another common challenge that can hinder communication and collaboration. This is especially problematic in larger companies where processes and data are kept in separate servers or data centers that are not able to interact with each other.
In many cases, these silos are inevitable if businesses aren’t strategically working to prevent them from being created in the first place. For example, as single departments
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have adopted Software as a Service (SaaS) and other cloud tools, silos tend to emerge. This
is especially true when departments choose different software providers.
Despite issues with some tools not being able to connect with others, there are some solutions that can help ease this concern.
To bridge the gap between multiple cloud systems that aren’t compatible with one another, one option is to utilize an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) provider.
iPaaS providers can bring together data and applications from different sources and help companies communicate internally more effectively.
Opportunity to Scale Cloud Investments After migrating to the cloud, one of the
most important next steps for companies
is building their cloud toolbox. Enterprises should consider the tools they have in
place and what tools they can add to enhance communications. For example, there is a wide range of cloud-based tools that enterprises can use to strengthen
and streamline communications. With all the options available, choosing the best cloud-based telecom tools might feel like information overload. Below are a few common configurations for cloud-based communications that decision makers can consider if they are looking to adopt more cloud-based tools.
Cloud-hosted PBX technology
Cloud-hosted PBX creates the least amount of disruption for organizations while continuing to provide the same capabilities that customers are familiar with. Hosted PBX phone systems can bring some great functionality to business, including transfer calls, voicemail, voice menus, recording
and businesses can increase their number
of phones independent of the number of phone lines connected to their building. The technology eliminates the need for physical phones and can help companies better manage spikes in costs and usage. Purpose-built software solutions Purpose-built software solutions are industry-specific and are pre-integrated
into a workflow. These communication- native business process applications allow the dental receptionist to better schedule patients, the salesperson to handle communications within their CRM, or the claims processing unit to automate claim status SMS notifications. In these cases, communications are no longer a standalone application, but an integrated capability within a critical and valuable software solution. Further, there are more and
more options in this category as software developers recognize the power of integrated real-time communications to their offerings. Be Your Own Carrier (BYOC) model
The number of enterprises adopting a BYOC model into their communication strategies has increased with the evolution of the cloud telecom market. This BYOC model is
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defined differently by industry players, but at its core, the model provides enterprises
or third-party software developers with direct access to public carrier-level services to design custom communications offerings into existing services. Adoption of BYOC models is appealing because they offer increased flexibility and allow enterprises to innovate further to address the unique needs of their business and customers.
There’s a number of different reasons businesses migrate to the cloud. Ultimately, the name of the game is flexibility. Cloud tools remove a lot of complexity involved
in managing your organization’s telecom infrastructure like provisioning resources on the fly, managing different implementations or solutions, scaling and deprovisioning.
With the far-reaching global pandemic touching all elements of business, it’s clear that some elements of consumer and work activities will not return to what they once were. One of the most important lessons that companies can learn from the pandemic is the importance of flexibility and adaptability as a means of helping the business survive. By having a deeper knowledge of the
steps to take before, during and after
cloud migration, IT leaders can shift their operations and communication efforts to maximize their own IT and communication applications. As businesses around the globe experience the benefits that cloud technology can bring to their businesses, these solutions will help them forget about their previous on-prem infrastructure. n
Tanaza and Edgecore Networks Announce Joint Cloud-Managed Wi-Fi Solutions
The Tanaza Operating System is compatible with MEdgecore Networks Open Wi-Fi Access Points.
ilan, Italy - Tanaza, a leader in the Edgecore Networks plays a leading role in cloud-managed wireless networking the disaggregation of hardware and software industry, has announced a new in the data center and Wi-Fi space, and
partnership with Edgecore Networks, partnering with them was just a matter of the leading provider of traditional and time.”
open network solutions for enterprises, “As a leading contributor to the OCP,
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data centers, and telecommunication
service providers. The partnership
provides unprecedented progress in the
open networking field by allowing the disaggregated Linux-based Tanaza Operating System, TanazaOS, to run on Edgecore Networks open Wi-Fi access points.
“Tanaza and Edgecore Networks share the vision of delivering disaggregated hardware and software networking solutions that enhance connectivity providers’ choice, control, and innovation while lowering
the total cost of ownership,” remarked Sebastiano Bertani, CEO of Tanaza. “By partnering with Edgecore Networks,
MSPs, Service Providers, and Operators interested in the operational efficiency and flexibility of Tanaza’s software can now enjoy it with the robust and high-performing Edgecore’s hardware, for indoor and outdoor deployments.
ONF, and TIP open communities, Edgecore fully understands the operators’ requirement to reduce the cost of mobile network deployments while offering the innovation and flexibility of hardware and software choice. We are very pleased to have Tanaza, joining the open Wi-Fi movement, enabling the choice of indoor and outdoor access points with TanazaOS.”, said TT Hsu, Vice President, Edgecore Networks.
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Tanaza has made substantial contributions to the Open Networking field with technology and experience to make hardware and software disaggregation in Wi-Fi a reality. Tanaza is a proud member of the TIP Wi-FI Project Group, and a member of the Express Wi-Fi Technology Partner Program by Facebook
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ramingham, Mass. - Bose Professional has announced their much anticipated
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