{"id":1085,"date":"2015-01-14T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2015-01-14T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:18:23","slug":"embracing-the-new-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2015\/01\/14\/embracing-the-new-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing \u2018The new IP’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embracing \u2018The new IP\u2019 will help organisations in the Middle East boost workforce productivity explains Yarob Sakhnini, Regional Director, MEMA at Brocade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever given a thought about how bad office internet connectivity and network downtime can hurt organisations in the Middle East?<\/p>\n

An interesting study appeared in the UK media recently, showing that 7.5 million\u00a0working days are being lost in the UK thanks to poor office technology. That\u2019s an average of 11 days per worker in case you\u2019re wondering. 11 days of sitting around, frustrated, because they can\u2019t work \u2013 not because they don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n

The biggest culprit? A slow Internet connection. Somewhat embarrassingly half of the office workers surveyed said their home broadband was better than their work connection. Yes even in our hyper connected, online shopping, 10GbE switching world, it seems organisations are still struggling to get their network to, well, work.<\/p>\n

If such a survey was carried out in the Middle East, I am willing to bet that the results would not be very different.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the workforce that is struggling, as Brocade\u2019s research has shown that your average CIO is losing around 1000 working hours every year firefighting. A leading cause of this drain on their time? Network downtime. And this doesn\u2019t account for all those IT team and helpdesk hours focused on fixing things in order to keep the lights on, rather than working on projects that could make those lights shine so much more brightly \u2013 increasing competitiveness, improving efficiency, creating new opportunities and delivering new services to internal and external customers. The real exciting, innovative stuff.<\/p>\n

So why not just \u201cfix\u201d the network? Cloud is touted as one solution, and it can certainly deliver impressive cost and service improvements. Unfortunately it\u2019s also of little use if you can\u2019t access your cloud service because you can\u2019t connect to the Internet off your corporate network in the first place. Simply adding more switches to the network is an expensive way of gaining a little more bandwidth for a huge increase in complexity.<\/p>\n

So what to do? Well we need to look at the network in a new way. Not as a fixed legacy system that must be held up with sticking plaster or ripped out and replaced. Or as an impractical full scale shift into the cloud. Despite what some vendors may infer, addressing your problems with your network does not have to be an \u201ceither\/or\u201d deal.<\/p>\n

What organizations need to adopt first is a philosophy that we call the New IP. The New IP is not a solution, or a product; it\u2019s an approach that recognises that cloud, mobility, digitalisation, virtualisation, software and hardware all have their role to play in the network that organisations now need and that it\u2019s about working out the right mix of the above for each organisation\u2019s business needs. Like, increasing productivity, for example.<\/p>\n

Only when we stop focusing on trying to fix the Old IP and take a business focused approach that embraces the reality of the technology dependent world we inhabit can we fully enable the workforce. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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