of-breed’ IP network can be built on a range of different technologies from different suppliers, enabling the organisation to choose the best components to support its business continuity requirements. It facilitates convergence and
flexibility, and since the organisation no longer physically owns its network, it enables it to shift an even greater proportion of its IT costs to the more flexible OpEx model that is more commonly used among cloud suppliers. Lastly, with a virtualisation layer unifying all technical aspects of the network, application developers only have to develop for one infrastructure.
Performance monitoring Cloud applications are useless to the organisation if their performance is so poor that it slows everyone down. This not only damages productivity,
but also may encourage employees to bypass the cloud altogether and return to on-premise applications that are outside of the business continuity infrastructure. The network must therefore be able
to monitor the performance of all the applications running on it so that they can be optimised, differentially
Easy networking into the cloud
attaching priority to critical application flows. Moving critical applications to the cloud without a strong and flexible network in place is like building a house with no foundations. If enterprises fail to ensure their own
corporate networks have the right levels of bandwidth, flexibility, latency and security then they will at best never see the benefits of the cloud - and at worst, open up their business to significantly
Reed Recruitment’s business continuity cloud network with Azzurri
As one of the UK’s most successful specialist recruitment agencies, Reed Specialist Recruitment operates 300 retail branches throughout the country and
www.reed.co.uk, its commercial jobsite, features over 250,000 live employment opportunities at any one time.
With so much sensitive data within its network, Reed was uncomfortable with the idea of storing confidential information about the company’s clients and candidates on third-party systems in the public cloud.
However, fully keen to reap the business continuity and cost-saving benefits of cloud computing, Reed has built itself a private cloud infrastructure on Azzurri’s fully resilient Intelligent Cloud Optimised Network (ICON). With resilience and redundancy built right into the network, Reed’s cloud computing strategy has not only saved the company money and improved the speed at which new services are deployed, but it has added an extra layer to the company’s business continuity strategy.
greater operational risk than if they’d taken an on-premise approach. Never is this more important than
when thinking of the organisation’s disaster recovery/business continuity strategy.
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