Firewalls are like insurance—it’s not fun, it’s not sexy, but it’s a necessary precaution. Installing and configuring a firewall is just the first step; you need to patch and update it on an ongoing basis, which includes testing (you don’t want anything to break!) and...
Imagine you’re a retailer spending a lot of money on your MPLS network. Spending so much, in fact, that pretty much your entire infrastructure budget goes to said network. You want to do so much more—like backup systems, upgraded software, and hosted VoIP. Is it...
The word “partnership” gets thrown around a lot and, as a result, it’s become a rather empty promise. But at BCM One, we believe our channel partner program is truly unique; we emphasize the word “partner” rather than “program,” and nothing underscores that more than...
On paper it might sound like a good idea to work directly with the carriers and suppliers of your communications infrastructure. It gives you control. They’re accountable directly to you. But in reality, the process of evaluating, selecting, deploying, and managing technologies can be challenging...
As a technology consultant, you provide value to your clients by taking on the responsibility for their IT strategy and management so they don’t have to. Could they do it themselves? Yeah, probably, but it’s not their thing and it wouldn’t be the best use...
The SDWAN market is hot right now. IDC’s worldwide SDWAN forecast from 2017 to 2021 predicts SDWAN network sales to reach over $8 billion. This is a titanic jump from $225 million back in 2015. Why is the SDWAN market blowing up like this? Because...
For many organizations, their cloud budget has become their new phone bill. Your organization needs cloud services, but you have finite resources and don’t want to spend any more than you have to, and you certainly don’t want to go over budget....
Nearly every company deploys some kind of legacy product that just doesn’t perform as well as a new and improved alternative. Case in point, copper-based communication lines like Ethernet over Copper, POTS and DSL. Many organizations continue to use legacy products in the face of more...
SDWAN is exploding. Andrew Lerner of Gartner stated in 2017 that "SDWAN is delivering on the promise. In just three short years, adoption has taken off, and we now estimate 6,000 plus paying SDWAN customers with more than 4,000 production implementations." With so many SDWAN...
For the last couple of decades, technology expense management (TEM) has been the way many organizations handle their billing. Paper billing has long gone the way of the dinosaur, thanks to the large expense involved in printing, shipping, storing and processing....