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Join our panel of renowned experts as we explore the transformative potential of AI in enhancing cybersecurity measures, offering a multi-layered approach to defence, and addressing the sophisticated threats of the modern digital landscape.
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Discover how Insight’s AWS CloudOps Assessment Service can transform your AWS experience. Learn about our AWS practice, the importance of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and how our services can optimise your AWS investment to meet business objectives.
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Join Insight for a journey through the intricacies of the NIS2 Directive. Our webinar is designed to demystify the complexities of NIS2 and provide a clear path to compliance for organisations operating within the EU, and/or providing services to the EU.
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Agenda • The challenges faced by Digby Brown Solicitors and how they led to the search for an alternative telephony solution. • How Insight addressed the requirements of Digby Brown Solicitors and provided a highly resilient cloud-based telephony platform. • The innovation driven to extend the contact centre capabilities. • The impact of the solution on the business and how it transformed their operations.
In conversation with Digby Brown Solicitors Achieving business transformation through Microsoft Teams and Unified Communications
Graeme Agnew Director of IT, Digby Brown Solicitors
Iain Smith Practice Director for Unified Communications, Insight
Emily Hanson Insight Lead Microsoft Partnership, Insight
Are you interested in modernising your telephony solution? Watch our video to hear Insight's Practice Director for Unified Communications, and Director of IT at Digby Brown Solicitors, discuss a recent project that replaced the legacy telecoms system with a Microsoft Teams phone system. The discussion highlights the innovative solution elements and the benefits it brought to the business, particularly in enabling a more hybrid working model.
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What does Copilot mean for cybersecurity?
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Insight provides expert guidance on seamlessly integrating Copilot into your business. Our experienced team is ready to support you with any Generative AI projects and Copilot offerings, regardless of where you are in your business journey.
As a solutions integrator, Insight can leverage innovative technologies for tangible business benefits. Our tailored solutions cater to businesses of all sizes and complexities, to take your business to the next level with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
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Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware towards the end of last year has left many organisations wondering what their next move should be when it comes to their licensing. If you’re in the dark as to why, as a thought leader in the industry Insight is well positioned to shed some light.
Broadcom has acquired VMware. Here’s what your business should do next.
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Broadcom has announced a significant simplification of its VMware solutions product portfolio, which aims to provide more value for customers from businesses of all sizes. This simplification initiative is a result of customer and partner feedback over the years, which highlighted that the offers and go-to-market strategies were too complex. As part of this initiative, all VMware solutions under Broadcom have transitioned to subscription licenses, an end to the perpetual licensing model.
What’s happened?
The recent changes in VMware’s licensing model have pushed many organisations to explore alternative solutions that provide them with better ROI. Consider exploring cloud-based solutions, which offer many benefits, including lower costs, greater scalability, and increased flexibility. By carefully evaluating your options, you can ensure you are making the right choices for your business and maximising your ROI.
VMware has consolidated its offerings by creating bundles, resulting in a reduced number of SKUs. Consider the bundle options available and evaluate whether they align with your business needs and budget.
With the introduction of the per-core licensing scheme, it’s important to evaluate your current usage and determine whether you need to reduce the number of cores you use to avoid additional fees. By analysing your usage patterns, you can identify areas where you can optimise your usage and reduce costs.
Evaluate your current usage
Consider bundle options
Here are three key considerations we think you should keep in mind:
Explore alternative solutions
Companies are navigating changes in their environment with the help of Insight experts. You can reach out to us to address your burning questions, potential solutions, and best practices for ensuring stability despite changes in the market. Lean on a strategic partner. With thousands of deep partnerships with leading providers, Insight is the go-to expert for solutions integration.
Key takeaways:
Since the acquisition, Broadcom has streamlined 650+ offerings into four focused packages, and Insight can help you understand which package is right for you. Organisations should carefully assess their options when reworking the foundation of their data centre, which is a huge undertaking, and Insight can help you navigate this complex process. Partners such as Insight can guide your organisation in choosing the right approach, whether it's on-premises, in the cloud, or multicloud, despite changes in the market. It is important to set realistic expectations while closely monitoring how the news will evolve as further changes are anticipated in the coming months.
Available options from Insight:
Stay with VMware and optimise your environment to extract the maximum value from the new SKUs, which essentially bundle more technology.
Decide to go with an alternative where there are several options: Stay on premises with Nutanix or Azure Stack HCI Go for a VMware solution on public cloud (VMware solution on Azure) Go native public cloud, Azure or AWS.
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Stay with VMware and optimise your environment to extract the maximum value from the new SKUs, which essentially bundles more technology.
Decide to go with an alternative where there are several options: Stay on premises with Nutanix or Azure Stack HCI Go for a VMware solution on public cloud (VMware solution on Azure) Go native public cloud, Azure or AWS
The recent changes in VMware’s licensing model have pushed many organisations to explore alternative solutions that provide them with better ROI. Consider exploring cloud-based solutions, which offer many benefits, including lower costs, greater scalability, and increased flexibility. By carefully evaluating your options, you can ensure you are making the right choices for your business and maximizing your ROI.
With the introduction of the per-core licensing scheme, it’s important to evaluate your current usage and determine whether you need to reduce the number of cores you use to avoid additional fees. By analysing your usage patterns, you can identify areas where you can optimize your usage and reduce costs.
Broadcom has announced a significant simplification of its VMware solutions product portfolio , which aims to provide more value for customers from businesses of all sizes. This simplification initiative is a result of customer and partner feedback over the years, which highlighted that the offers and go-to-market strategies were too complex. As part of this initiative, all VMware solutions under Broadcom have transitioned to subscription licenses, an end to the perpetual licensing model.
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Unleash Ultimate Connectivity: Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station for Enterprise, Gaming and Video Editing.
Supports single 4K or dual 2K video via two DisplayPort™ 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0 monitor port.
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Audio quality is a crucial part of any meeting, especially online. VG2756V-2K AI-powered audio technology makes sure you get the best sound in any situation.
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27" QHD Webcam Docking Monitor | VG2756V-2K
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The 1500R curve broadens peripheral vision, centering the view and enabling you to see more of the screen at once without excessive eye or head movement. This enhances visual immersion and eye comfort.
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Safeguard your organisation against cyber threats and ensure compliance with ease.
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Receive comprehensive support for navigating initial steps and leveraging existing processes.
Benefits of partnering with Insight for NIS2 Compliance:
Ensure your organisation's cybersecurity measures are prioritised to comply with new NIS2 guidelines by 17th Oct 2024. Discover the benefits of NIS2 compliance training to effectively and confidently meet European security requirements.
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Let Insight guide you towards a secure future by migrating your VMware workloads to Azure.
While there are many benefits, we've identified the top 5 reasons why AVS is proving to be the optimal route to the cloud for many organisations:
Datacenter Consolidation: Streamline datacenter operations by migrating vSphere-based workloads to Azure with minimal disruption, automation, and scalability, without changing the underlying hypervisor.
Nearly 53% more efficient IT infrastructure team
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Application Modernisation: Seamlessly extend and modernise VMware workloads in the cloud without the need for application re-architecture, enabling development and testing of new solutions.
IDC, “The Business Value of Migrating and Modernizing to Microsoft Azure,” sponsored by Microsoft Azure, #US49665122 Published September 2022.
Faster delivery of new applications
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Flexible Cloud Migration: AVS allows organisations to migrate to the cloud at their own pace, offering control over workload migration timing and choices.
Approches to Avoid Common Cloud Strategy Pitfalls (gcom.cloud) 2022
70% of all enterprise workloads will be deployed in the cloud by 2024
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Unmatched Cost Savings: AVS offers cost-effective options for running Windows Server and SQL Server on VMware, offering advantages such as license portability, predictable pricing, and free protection for legacy workloads
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Up to 85% savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit
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AVS compatibility: Run VMware workloads in the cloud without application re-architecture, leveraging Azure's scalability and rapid provisioning.
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Nearly $600B forecasted Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services in 2023
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Experience the seamless transformation with Azure VMware Solution (AVS) enabling effortless migration of VMware workloads to Azure. Allowing your organisation to harness the power of familiar VMware tools for efficient IT environment management.
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