Fabric for Fast-Paced Environments
It seems as though just about every article you read about business today mentions the “fast-paced” environment in which we work. That’s not new.
Nor is it news to say that today’s workplace is dynamic and mobile.
What has been changing, however, is what we expect of our networks in today’s business environment.
Networks of the past were designed for simple, static workflows such as connecting an office user to the Internet or to email. With larger groups of people collaborating, and hybrid work and greater distributed networks being today’s reality, you need a network that can adapt and change on demand.
Many organisations use a legacy network infrastructure that are often no longer up to the challenges of current work processes and approaches. For these companies, fabric networking may be the solution.
Fabric enables you to scale on demand, create redundant paths for high availability and fault tolerance, improve your security with network segmentation, and so much more.
If you are saying, “Fabric? I know a little about it, but not 100% sure of all the facts”, you may wish to read an e-book written by one of our partners, Extreme Networks: “Fabric for Dummies”.
In essence though, data fabric is a tool, or architecture that weaves together data, systems, applications, and other network components in multiple ways – much like the weft and warp of a loom when turning threads into fabric. With everything so interconnected today, and with the vast amounts of data enterprises need to store, access, assess and use (far more than when the term “Big Data” came into parlance), different data systems need to be integrated – and protected. And this is where fabric enters the picture.
If you’d like to learn more about Fabric Networks, or other ways to make your network more robust, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or call us at 416.429.0796 or 1.877.238.9944 (toll free).
