The rapid growth of mobility in the workplace has brought with it a whole new raft of challenges for IT teams. In most organisations, mobile security practices and regulatory compliance top this list, though there’s still some way to go before meeting best practices.

For modern businesses in the throes of migrating critical business applications to the cloud and needing more bandwidth for high-speed communications to remote offices and workforces, solving traditional WAN bandwidth limitations is now critical. In this world, the traditional way of building WANs has become something of a misfit.

In the wake of the pandemic, with so many workers continuing to work-from-home – either permanently or in a flexible work arrangement ­– mobile devices are now being used as a primary communication channel. With home-workers utilising mobile devices and communications platforms such as Microsoft Teams, businesses need to capture conversations from mobile devices across wireless and IP connections.

Delivering immediate benefits to businesses, software-defined wide-area networking, known as SD-WAN, improves network performance, reduces downtime, and offers greater visibility and control over network traffic.

With the new year comes the opportunity to take a close look at mobile data security. The advent of COVID-19 last year forced many companies to pivot and modernise, adopting new technologies at a rapid pace to keep the wheels of their business turning.