38 . Glasgow Business September/October 2012
ADVERTORIAL
www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk
SUPPORTING THE AGILE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE
Martin McFadyen of Virgin Media Business envisages a future where working at home becomes the norm for many workers, supported by high-speed broadband
T
he rulebook for how businesses traditionally manage their workforce has been well and truly
ripped up. Some people work best fixed to a desk, others want the flexibility of working from anywhere and are as productive at home as they are in the office. As a result, businesses are becoming more agile and giving their workforce the technology they need to get the most from their teams. We spoke to 5,000 company
bosses and found that they believe more than half (60 per cent) of employees will work from home within the next decade. But as the agile office grows in popularity, geting the underlying infrastructure right is absolutely crucial. Aſter all, working from your favourite café is all well and good, but if you can’t access the data you need quickly and safely then you may as well trudge back to the office. So, as the way we work changes,
the way businesses access connectivity needs to change too. Why install a network that doesn’t give you the freedom to expand as your workforce becomes more mobile? Modern organisations need connectivity that grows as their needs do. So as businesses rip up their own rulebooks, we’ve changed the way we deliver our services to organisations. We’ve said goodbye to incremental, costly
bandwidth upgrades and given our customers the opportunity to have as much bandwidth as they need with a single price point – that’s the beauty of Big Red Internet and Big Red VPN. With Big Red Internet,
organisations get a superfast unconstrained internet connection and, depending on their needs, they can access speeds of 100 Mbit/s or 1Gbit/s. What’s more, because we can offer it as a managed service, network managers can sleep easy knowing someone is always keeping an eye on things.
Big Red VPN takes this
philosophy a step further and really embraces the mobile world of today and the future. Organisations that want to provide a secure and fast way of connecting to all their data can. And, what’s more, they can throw as much data down the network as they like – it can take it. No need to fork out more cash every time you add a new application and need more bandwidth. Buy what you need and focus on taking your business to the next level, not on making sure the network can cope.
Te future of the office is not
limited to a single building. In fact, it’s not limited to any buildings at all. Working on the move or from home and using technology that was traditionally associated with the consumer world will undoubtedly be the norm. Businesses need to make sure they have the connectivity now to support the future, more tech savvy, workforce. And telco partners like us have to make sure that we break down the barriers to change and give Chief Information Officers and IT managers what they need to innovate.
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