Allied Telesis newsletter microsite to feature Gartner research

The Allied Telesis newsletter features the Gartner report; Focus on Five Dimensions of Network Design to Improve Performance and Save Money, published March 23, 2013, which provides a framework for network professionals to improve user experience and reduce expenditures by 30%.

The Report says that “Network architects must expand their thinking to include individual users, devices and application requirements early in the network design progress. Enterprises that adapt their design practices to this approach will build better networks while optimizing their spending on business-critical technologies”

In introducing the Five Dimensions of Network Design, the Report says “Changing application environments, user expectations and network services demand that network architects expand their thinking to ensure that the network supports new and changing business requirements. They need to address five dimensions – users, applications, devices, location and activity – in a framework that best support enterprise applications, both internally and externally hosted.” “The five dimensions approach is a paradigm shift for designing networks, but can be approached pragmatically.”

The report illustrates five new dimensions of new thinking for network design, which range from consideration of users’ devices and applications, to creating a holistic strategic plan. For some time now, Allied Telesis Solutions Architects have already been using those five dimensions when creating solutions and network designs for customers; and already have proven experience of addressing these requirements. Thus, Allied Telesis has been able to demonstrate that it is already in line with this recommended paradigm shift in practice. For example, within the recent cloud-ready networks initiative, Allied Telesis has focused on the strategies necessary for effective design of cloud-ready solutions. Such infrastructures must provide resilient, secure, high-performance, highly-available and scalable services, to ensure that critical applications are always available and online. Such characteristics require much more than connectivity and the mix will vary according to the profile of the end-user.

“Allied Telesis provides solutions and support services that are optimized for customer needs, based on its advanced technical capabilities, which come from being a specialist producer of network equipment. As a team of network specialists, we can draw on network design and implementation know-how, built up from many years’ experience in the field, to provide comprehensive solutions. Our core value is simple. We help customers to meet complex IT requirements while offering investment protection, cost efficiencies, and the scalability to meet the ever-changing business application demands,” said Chris Hay, Solutions Architect, Allied Telesis.