Complicated Networks:Are they Making Your Daily Operations Less Manageable?
Over time, advanced technology, cloud communications, and the internet have grown in their importance to businesses. Companies have worked hard to keep up with these latest advances, ensuring they can leverage them to make their business processes more productive and efficient. The problem is that over time, this leads to having too many devices that make up a complex network that’s hard to manage. What’s more the complexity of the network setup can actually be a risk factor in keeping your business running.
Who Is Impacted by Complicated Network Issues?
Every business has the potential to be impacted by a convoluted network; however, some industries are particularly vulnerable. These include:
- Businesses with remote locations are particularly vulnerable to this issue. Remote workers rely on connecting back to their central hubs/offices in order to access internal applications and data. This network configuration requires not only providing private connectivity for the remote workers but also involves insuring that all of their traffic is secure. Often times in traditional networks this requires the use of multiple devices which predisposes them to the issues discussed above.
- Healthcare organizations are sensitive to these issues to due to the compliances they are required to build into their networks and the network uptimes they have to maintain. The additional devices required to ensure their network is secure and compliant can lead to having multiple devices that all pose a potential of causing a network outage.
- Financial entities could also develop issues related to their networks. They have a wide range of regulations they need to follow to keep their data, as well as the data of their customers, safe from harm. This could lead to multiple servers, computers, and devices that all require different types of equipment, overloading the network.
These are just a few of the examples of the types of organizations that can be affected by complicated networks.
Why Do Network Problems Develop?
There are a few reasons why this problem develops throughout various industries. As new technologies come to market or as new needs become priorities organizations are tasked with determining which of these technologies best fit their needs. This can lead to organizations layering on new technologies to their existing networks that are not built to natively communicate with each other. Not only does this add to the number of devices deployed onsite which consumes one of the most limited resources, real estate, but it can cause unwanted network complications. In addition to managing these additional devices and platforms it adds in additional points of failure in the environment. All of this leads to an inefficient network that becomes overloaded, cannot communicate effectively, and has more points of failure than it should.
The second reason why this can occur is due to limited IT resources. IT departments are tasked with securing an organizations data, keeping the business’s operations up and running, providing break-fix services to all of the end users, all while being expected to research and deploy new technologies that will improve business operations. This is a lot to ask of any team but especially those who may be running thin on head count. Due to these limited resources many teams may have no choice but to keep legacy equipment in place and try to add additional single service devices into the network to meet the ever growing business demands of an organization. This is commonly referred to as “if it’s not broke don’t fix it”. But in the process of not fixing it because it’s not broken an organization may be unknowingly adding potential future issues that could negatively impact their businesses.
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At Coeo our team of professionals can help you address your network problems by providing you with an effective solution that can optimize the speed of your systems. Contact us today for an audit of your existing network.
