This session will consider what the next generation
carrier networks are and now they can help housing
associations including:
- How to enable a mobile workforce in multisite organisations
- What the top five problems to be solved are when enabling mobility
- Maintaining security
- Maintaining simplicity and ease of management
- Scaling the solution
- Enabling resilience
- Coping with change in the IT landscape.
Unraveling Multimodality with Large Language Models.pdf
The mobile workforce – A real IT challenge
1. The Mobile
Workforce – A
real IT challenge
Name: Simon Acott,
Business & Partner Development Director
2. The Changing Business Landscape
Working within a changing business environment:
Reduced regulation and changes in social housing
Changes in historic funding models for new homes
Changes in Welfare Reform Act, biggest change in the welfare system
for 60 years
Growing commercial business streams of the business
3. Technology Challenges
Lack of investment
Skills and capabilities
Customer services to 24x7 basis (Payments / Maintenance)
Inability to flex
No link between the cost of I.T and the size of the business
Mobility
Ineffective disaster recovery solutions
Ability to harness changes in the wider technology landscape
Security and compliance
5. Market Experience
Comparing models in the market is a challenge
Service levels are maturing, but need to be negotiated
Security (Encryption) is a key focus
Security accreditations vary across providers
Licensing needs - Mobility / SPLA licensing options
Clouds have limitations and need to be understood
Not all services can go Cloud, most companies need a level of Colo, control
and governance
Network integration key
Centralised apps
Secure core and access
Access from anywhere
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7. Overview
The noise in the market is all about placing data in the cloud:
security, compliance, scalability and risk.
However, a good strategy is underpinned with the network
providing the access on a fixed or mobile basis.
• How secure is the route to the cloud?
• Is the infrastructure fit for purpose?
• Are bandwidth & infrastructure scalable?
• What about security?
8. Why use Internet?
• Security
• Performance
• Control
• Quality of Service
• Cost
For cloud computing to truly become mainstream it’s time to
rethink how organisations connect to cloud services. If cloud
remains synonymous with the internet, then it will also remain
synonymous with insecure and Unreliable connectivity.
9. Challenges
• Are field workers wasting time and money coming to and
from the office when they could go straight to a job?
• Are people unable to do work from home or in transit
because they can’t connect?
• Could tenant services be delivered quicker and at less cost
online?
• Would greater connectivity make tenants lives better?
• Do we have huge repositories of useful data we are not taking
advantage of?
• Would we lose vital data if a whole office went down or if
computers were stolen?
10. Business drivers for cloud adoption
Cost Speed
No Capital Expenditures Rapid Provisioning
Utility Billing Model Built in High Availability
Direct Allocation of Costs Automated Workflow
Efficient Computing Accelerate Time-to-Market
Drivers of Cloud
Adoption
Features Agility
New IT Capabilities Self or Fully Managed
Compliance & Security Roles-Based Controls
Cloning, Bursting, etc. Accessible Anywhere
Complete Data Centre Control Portability of Workloads
A Time Warner Cable Company
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12. Access anywhere
• Employees are increasingly mobile
• They expect to work from home or on the road
• Money is saved if they can collaborate
• Tablets
• Bring your own Device (BYOD)
– Security
– VDI
13. Operational transformation
• Charity
• 9 main locations
• Centralised call centre
– Support
– Fundraising
• CRM
– Localised
– No integration
• Telephony
• Distributed systems
• Home working
14. Concerns
• Security
• Centralisation
• Control
• Management
• Quality
• Service levels
• Scale
• Future proofing
While security remains the primary barrier to adoption for cloud, having a direct, private connection also deals with the performance issues which can be experienced by organisations accessing services over the internet. While organisations have extremely high-levels of control over performance on their LAN, the story is completely different when the internet becomes part of the equation. Your connection in this use-case is only as fast as the slowest part of the public internet, which means that as soon as the internet becomes at all congested, performance-levels experienced by end-users will suffer.