How to protect your video conferences from hackersAugust 5, 2020 | Austin Herrington | 3 min read As companies across the U.S. embrace remote working solutions in response to COVID-19, video-teleconferencing (VTC) platforms are now the virtual office must-have. These tools allow face-to-face video conferences between users in different cities, states, countries,...
How to protect your video conferences from hackersAugust 5, 2020 | Austin Herrington As companies across the U.S. embrace remote working solutions in response to COVID-19, video-teleconferencing (VTC) platforms are now the virtual office must-have. These tools allow face-to-face video conferences between users in different cities, states, countries,...
Planning to thrive: Agile methods lead to educational resilience as districts return to learnJuly 20, 2020 | Jennifer Head The abrupt, widespread school closures this spring thrust educators and students across the country into a sustained virtual environment with little time to prepare or plan. As we look to the coming school year, it’s...
3 ways professional IT services will jumpstart your reopeningJune 15, 2020 | Justin Piotroski Few enterprise IT leaders could have planned for the sudden, unexpected evacuation of their workplaces. The events of the last few months have challenged IT departments to pivot rapidly and turn up remote work solutions...
3 ways professional IT services will jumpstart your reopeningJune 15, 2020 | Justin Piotroski Few enterprise IT leaders could have planned for the sudden, unexpected evacuation of their workplaces. The events of the last few months have challenged IT departments to pivot rapidly and turn up remote work solutions...
SD-WAN vs. SDN: The Differences are in the DetailsJune 8, 2017 | Windstream Enterprise Over the past 12 months the buzz around SD-WAN has exploded. It’s becoming to networking what the Cloud has become to infrastructure and applications. Yet, while the concept of a Software Defined WAN is generally...
Planning to thrive: Agile methods lead to educational resilience as districts return to learnJuly 20, 2020 | Jennifer Head The abrupt, widespread school closures this spring thrust educators and students across the country into a sustained virtual environment with little time to prepare or plan. As we look to the coming school year, it’s...
3 ways professional IT services will jumpstart your reopeningJune 15, 2020 | Justin Piotroski | 4 min read June 15, 2020 | Justin Piotroski | 4 min read Few enterprise IT leaders could have planned for the sudden, unexpected evacuation of their workplaces. The events of the last few months have challenged IT departments to pivot rapidly and turn up remote work solutions...
Is your legacy network holding your organization back?June 11, 2020 | Mike Frane The world has been talking a lot about the “new normal” that’s coming our way post-pandemic, and it’s not limited to masks and social distancing. Organizations are evolving to the point where the network perimeter...
SD-WAN demand makes Windstream Enterprise the top providerFebruary 27, 2020 | Layne Levine Although surprising to many, the monumental growth and seismic shift in appetite for SD-WAN in small and medium-sized business applications is something I’ve been predicting for some time. Back in November, when I had the...
Planning to thrive: Agile methods lead to educational resilience as districts return to learnJuly 20, 2020 | Jennifer Head | 4 min read July 20, 2020 | Jennifer Head | 4 min read The abrupt, widespread school closures this spring thrust educators and students across the country into a sustained virtual environment with little time to prepare or plan. As we look to the coming school year, it’s...
Could your legacy voice system be a service risk?June 9, 2020 | Austin Herrington Upgrading business data networks often takes precedence over voice systems simply because of inertia. Plenty of business owners adhere to the adage, “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” But even if your legacy voice...
COVID-19 Checklist for Retailers, Part 3: How to take the fear out of reopeningJune 4, 2020 | Jeffrey Neville Many states are now re-opening their economies—challenging retailers and restaurant operators to adapt their locations to meet public safety mandates. To understand those challenges, I spoke to Windstream Enterprise Retail customers about their plans for...
3 ways professional IT services will jumpstart your reopeningJune 15, 2020 | Justin Piotroski | 4 min read June 15, 2020 | Justin Piotroski | 4 min read Few enterprise IT leaders could have planned for the sudden, unexpected evacuation of their workplaces. The events of the last few months have challenged IT departments to pivot rapidly and turn up remote work solutions...
Protecting you and your data: OfficeSuite HD Meeting security and privacyApril 17, 2020 | Scott Yelton Windstream Enterprise (WE) takes the security of our network and customer data very seriously. With the rapid shift to remote workers and telepresence, our businesses, healthcare providers, educational systems and government entities now rely even...
DDoS Attacks: On the Rise and Growing in SophisticationOctober 10, 2019 | Windstream Enterprise In a one-week span in September 2019 alone, distributed denial-of-service, DDoS, attacks took down a popular gaming service and one of the world’s most visited websites. Botmasters faced justice in court, and protesters in Hong...
Network transition: 3 scenarios where an expert consultant can helpJanuary 27, 2020 | Justin Piotroski | 5 min read January 27, 2020 | Justin Piotroski | 5 min read Today’s enterprise networks exist to support the business. Whether the imperative is driving a superior customer experience, enabling business growth through acquisition or any other number of goals, the business looks to the network (and...
How SD-WAN Enhances the Performance of Existing WANsOctober 2, 2019 | Mike Frane The wide area network (WAN) is the key determinant of application performance, user experience and other key IT success measures. According to Forbes, 83% of workloads will run in the cloud by the end of...
How the WAN Impacts Application PerformanceJune 12, 2019 | Arthur Nichols Digital applications have become a critical component of a business’s image and reputation. As more customers interact with online systems, application outages or impairments are more than just a black eye—missed opportunities, abandoned shopping carts...
2020 NRF recap: The continuing evolution of retailFebruary 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Neville | 6 min read February 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Neville | 6 min read Every January, the National Retail Federation (NRF) holds its Big Show at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. It’s 4 days’ worth of collaboration and idea sharing for retailers, industry thought leaders and technology...
How Product Development is Evolving to Meet Customer NeedsFebruary 3, 2020 | Scott Yelton The era of customer focus has arrived and is transforming the methods and speed of delivery for new products and services for B2C and B2B businesses alike. As a consumer, if your patience is thin,...
NRF 2020: Discover the state of retail and beyondJanuary 15, 2020 | Jeffrey Neville Despite the breathtaking speed and impact of the e-commerce revolution, physical stores still play a vital role in the buying journey. While consumers will use their mobile devices to research and compare goods, they still...