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How a certified Microsoft partner can advance your digital disruption
The benefits of moving to the cloud are no longer a secret. Cloud services make everything easier for businesses and organizations of any size. The key to maximizing your benefits is making sure your transition to the cloud is customized to meet your specific business...
How Cisco Connected Justice modernized a county justice system
Remote accessibility has been a common goal for the professional workforce for the past year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to adapt to public health safety measures. These changes have been difficult to implement on an enterprise scale, and this...
Top 5 cybersecurity actions to take right now
I’m finding that as I get older, my memory is starting to slowly fail me. You know that feeling when you walk into a room, and can’t remember what you came in there for? I know it’s not a unique experience, but it’s still pretty frustrating. Writing things down is...
How Network as a Service can benefit your business
Cut costs and ease the IT burden with a future-proof NaaS solution from CBTS Until recently, organizations with multiple locations had to grapple with the costs and complexities of managing their own wide area networks (WAN) to connect each site. As businesses expand...
LAN infrastructure from CBTS gives a boost to retail growth
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified demand across all industries for modern networking technology that enables seamless and user-friendly collaboration. Retail is no different, as local area network (LAN) infrastructure gives merchants and customers alike access to...
How SD-WAN security enhances critical business applications
In response to the move to have workers at home, companies of all sizes have had to rethink their networking infrastructures to support their growing remote workforces. The swift spread of the coronavirus crisis and the necessary response to it left many enterprises...
Employ cloud-enabled security to safe-guard your SD-WAN network
The cyber threats faced by enterprises today—from phishers and scammers to bots and viruses—can have a disastrous impact on your organization. Stay-at-home orders spurred by the pandemic have only exacerbated the issue, with hackers exploiting remote networks and...
Streamlining the data lake to take on emerging security threats
Large enterprises face a number of complex data challenges that smaller and even mid-level organizations do not. Growth is rarely linear in the corporate world, coming instead in fits and starts in pursuit of highly targeted business opportunities. This makes an...
5G: Paving the road to smart manufacturing
Smart manufacturing, or the “digital factory,” is no longer the future—it’s already arrived. Manufacturers are in the process of putting 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), advanced data analytics, and robotics to work to improve asset utilization and operating...
Revamp your business with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
CBTS worked with one of the largest communications technology companies in the world, offering voice, data, and video services across multiple networks with an operating structure that focuses on three customer-facing areas: consumer products, business communications,...
Six ways to enable business transformation with UCaaS
While it may soon be common knowledge that on-premises PBX communications infrastructures are no longer suitable for the demands facing enterprises today, many are still under-informed in regard to the alternatives. Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is...
Cloud delivered SD-WAN and 5 fixes for networking obstacles
Businesses from nearly every industry and vertical are embracing the capabilities of Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN), especially in an age when it’s vital to empower remote workforces. But what exactly is SD-WAN? Cloud-delivered SD-WAN explained Simply...
Understanding Total Cost of Ownership for UCaaS
Everything has a price, and enterprises looking to consolidate their communications infrastructures are as price-minded as ever—especially at a time when remote work capabilities are paramount. Many have turned to Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) in a bid...
Critical MS Exchange Server Vulnerabilities – What you need to know
While the last few years have seen most of our customers move their enterprise messaging from a local Exchange cluster to Microsoft 365, plenty still have some on-premises Exchange infrastructure. If this describes your organization, hopefully you have already heard...
How to launch a modern call center to offer seamless service in times of crisis
Traditional contact centers were not designed to handle the overwhelming volume of calls that have flooded healthcare organizations, government agencies, and many other industries during this global pandemic. Although the initial surge may have leveled off, the...
Four pitfalls to avoid in your UCaaS deployment
Effective communication and cutting-edge collaboration applications are more important than ever in the new age of remote workforces. However, organizations and IT juggling collaboration tools, conferencing tools, and diverse technologies that exist across their...
Why cellular signal repeaters are ineffective without DAS
The era of 5G communications is about to break wide open on the world economy, putting untold amounts of data in the hands of businesses and consumers and unleashing a vast array of new services, some of which will require uninterrupted connectivity to perform vital...
Delivering effective online teaching tools for public educators
When shelter-in-place orders were given earlier this year, public schools were among the many organizations forced to adapt to the “new normal” quickly. One particular school district in Ohio was no exception. The district in question serves nearly 50,000 students,...
Identifying your IT skills gap and finding solutions for your organization
The gap between IT job openings and the trained professionals qualified to fill them is widening. Businesses around the globe are particularly challenged by a pandemic which is further exacerbating demand for talented technicians in mission-critical areas, such as...
Cybersecurity outsourcing: how to keep flat budgets from adversely affecting your organization
2021 is expected to bring flat—if not decreased budgeting—for businesses. The security of your network and data cannot afford to be compromised by those cuts. One way to ensure the security of your most valuable asset is to outsource. This article takes a look at...
Frost & Sullivan report places CBTS in top bracket for UCaaS innovation and growth
The past year has seen a meteoric rise in the demand for, and proliferation of, remote collaboration technology as organizations of every size, shape, and type have scrambled to meet the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. As an influential figure in this...
How Cisco Meraki + CBTS NaaS team up to deliver cost-efficient modernization for your network
Growth is widely considered the key to survival in the business world, but growth not is equally simple or achievable for every organization. That’s why many business leaders are seeking out managed networking solutions such as network as a service (NaaS) by CBTS....
5 questions you’ll need to answer for an improved security posture in 2021
Are you a security practitioner that was blindsided by 2020? You’re obviously not alone. As we noted earlier in the year (man, I wrote that nine months ago? Feels like nine years), it’s unlikely that a global pandemic was on your risk radar. With the year drawing to a...
Community in 2020: we give where we live
CBTS is a global company with deep roots in our communities. The events of 2020 strengthened our resolve to “give where we live” and devote time and effort to the neighborhoods where we live, work, and do business. We quickly adapted as restrictions created in...
How to move your network security strategy forward with automation
Network security remains a vital issue for CEOs, especially considering that 32% of organizations have experienced major cyber attacks in the past two years, according to the 2019 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO survey. The cost of security breaches continues to grow as well....
Surviving 2020: our employees are at the heart of our business
Our employees and how they responded to the events of 2020 personally and professionally mirror how CBTS has weathered the year: with the resilient attitude on which our customer-first approach is built. Like our company, they adapted, transformed, and rose to the...
Thriving in 2020: employee resource groups cultivate our culture
When it came to sustaining our employees beyond the necessities of work, our employee resource groups (ERGs) stepped up reconnect us in crucial ways and became essential to strengthening our new virtual culture. Despite the social distancing, ERGs creatively continued...
Revolutionize Your Cloud Disaster Recovery Capabilities with DRaaS
Building and maintaining a data environment that is used for daily business activities may be expensive but, by any measure, is more than worth the effort. Doing the same for an environment that is rarely, if ever, activated is both expensive and burdensome, with...
Responding to 2020: Shifting operations and supporting clients like superheroes
The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for successful organizations like CBTS to prove that they could scale, adapt, and transform when a crisis hit. Looking back, we remained nimble, responsive, and resilient to meet the challenges head on. We supported our...
Why global technical support is crucial for a successful enterprise
All businesses, regardless of size, exist in a highly globalized world. Enterprises across every industry are broadening their scope to draw resources and services from around the world. Especially for those organizations investing in managed infrastructure, including...
How SD-WAN & NaaS come together to supercharge remote work productivity
Many professionals working remotely are struggling with insufficient wireless networks and constrained bandwidth, whether they’re operating from home or a branch office. For companies still grappling with the “new normal” of remote work, getting the most from...
A Q&A on Taking the Vertical Dive
CBTS recently put together a three-part webcast series. Part one of the webcast series, featuring CBTS Sr. Director of Solution Engineering Matt Douglass and CBTS Sr. Sales Engineer Alex Broome, discusses how to maximize the value of your client’s applications,...
How CBTS changes the game with the Network as a Service solution
What can a business do when its growth has outstripped its networking resources? With IT personnel stretched thin and struggling with limited budgets, many organizations have seen their networks suffer from increased downtime and higher operating expenses as a result....
How to upgrade and modernize your e-mail security strategy
Amid all the talk these days about malware, spyware, ransomware, and all the other malicious activity targeting the enterprise, one crucial fact tends to get overlooked: the vast majority of these threats enter protected data environments not by breaching the firewall...
Implementing Data Protection Best Practices in the Cloud with Bocada
There is no question that organizations can reap strong benefits by migrating their IT infrastructures to the cloud. Increased speed, minimized overhead costs, and access to best-in-breed technology partners are just some of these advantages. Yet the evolution toward...
Integrating Hosted UC and Webex to enable unified collaboration and simplified IT
As communication channels rapidly evolve in today’s digital age, businesses must adapt quickly to support seamless interactions across voice, video, mobile, messaging, and chat. With workplace trends shifting toward more remote collaboration, it can be challenging for...
How to build a full-spectrum cloud security strategy
The growing relevance of cloud technology shows no signs of slowing down. As more organizations migrate to cloud environments, their managers and IT specialists are grappling with the issue of cloud security. However, a number of misconceptions currently muddy the...
Enhance the customer experience by blending Five9 Contact Center as a Service with CBTS enterprise voice solutions
Customers today demand faster service from companies across multiple communication channels. They expect contact centers to deliver extraordinary experiences with every interaction—but that becomes more challenging as communication technologies rapidly evolve. Thanks...
A Q&A on Microsoft Teams in the Big Picture
CBTS recently put together a three-part webcast series centered on Microsoft Teams and competing collaboration tools. Part one of the webcast series, moderated by Channel Chief Rob Messmer, features CBTS Sr. Director of Solution Engineering Matt Douglass, Senior...
Why a Distributed Antenna System is the best answer to in-building wireless dead spots
Wireless connectivity is quickly becoming the distinguishing factor between success and failure in business. If you look across the entire economic spectrum, products and services that engage customers in an intuitive and helpful manner perform much better in terms of...
Why CBTS leverages Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for modernizing enterprises
Today’s enterprise is faced with a myriad of challenges of managing legacy systems and processes and yet data volumes are increasing exponentially, while demand for new services, reliability, and operational efficiency show no signs of easing up. But what technology...
The key to finding the right SD-WAN provider for your organization
As cloud-based applications catch on in terms of both popularity and availability, the users who rely on them are expecting easier and more reliable access from any remote work situation they operate in. Simultaneously, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)...
How NaaS is putting the cloud within reach for every enterprise
Legacy networks, and the businesses that rely on them, are running out of juice. For the most part, these outdated network environments are simply not equipped to meet the high demand that exists today for reliable, full-spectrum communication capabilities. The spike...
Protecting your most vulnerable cyberattack vector: E-mail
Modern enterprises face security threats on a number of fronts. From DDoS attacks to malware and data theft, no organization is too large or too small to take the issue of security lightly. While most breaches occur when a hacker penetrates a firewall or intercepts...
Disaster Recovery Solutions that Work
There is little question at this point that cloud-based Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solutions offer tremendous benefits when it comes to backing up, maintaining, and then restoring critical operating environments following a sudden and unexpected outage....
Expert breakdown webcast series: Microsoft Teams in the Big Picture
Team collaboration is evolving quickly as companies strive to maintain smooth operations and meaningful interactions, whether working from home or utilizing traditional office environments. Service providers, master agents, partners, and customers alike are exploring...
Revamping an outdated network with SD-WAN and NaaS
Growth, and having a plan to achieve it, is critical for any enterprise. However, growing your business is difficult when aging technology, an outdated network, and thinly-stretched IT resources are holding you back. The Kleingers Group, a civil engineering,...
A Q&A on VMware SD-WAN
CBTS recently put together a three-part webcast series centered on VMware SD-WAN. The panel, moderated by Channel Chief Rob Messmer, features VP & CTO-SD-WAN at VMware Craig Connors, CBTS Director of Cloud Networking Jon Lloyd, and CBTS Senior Director of Solution...
How SD-WAN is revolutionizing hybrid networks for the cloud era
For IT service providers and the enterprises they support, Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology is quickly establishing itself as a revolutionary concept and a valuable tool for organizations hoping to thrive in the age of cloud computing. The value...
What does a successful migration to the public cloud look like?
The cloud has proven itself to be a valuable resource in the continuing struggle to expand data environments, improve flexibility and performance, and lower the overall cost of IT infrastructure. But even as the cloud enters its third decade, there is still much to be...
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