Pervasive network connectivity has made your operations truly location independent, linking employees and branches to transact and conduct business with the speed and precision your operations demand.   

In today’s environment of mature networks, it would seem that we’ve moved beyond concerns about connectivity, yet many IT initiatives currently underway can have unplanned, negative or even crippling effects on your branch office performance.  Consolidation, virtualisation, adoption of IP voice and video, Web 2.0, SaaS and security threats can all play havoc with the network, fundamentally changing traffic volumes and flow. Unfortunately, the network is seldom designed or adjusted to accommodate these changing traffic flows resulting in your branch offices once again being “out on a limb” at the close of a new IT initiative.

Yet you can change this scenario. Today’s WAN Optimisation and Application Acceleration tools combined with a rigorous performance management approach can deliver truly exceptional performance enhancements and a short-term ROI.

Dimension Data is delighted at the recent announcement from Cisco and Microsoft on their new Windows on WAAS solution. This is another great tool distributed organisations can use to ensure that their branch operations leverage all the benefits of local presence along with centrally managed and consolidated infrastructure – and all at the best possible performance levels.