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Joining Forfusion in 2015, Business Support Executive Fiona Inglis has experienced a lot of change over the past five years; Not only for the business, but from a personal perspective too.

Here at Forfusion, we’re always looking at how new technology can help businesses improve their efficiency and productivity in the digital workplace. It’s how we help them stay competitive in a fast-paced industry. With 2020 just beginning, we decided to explore some of the exciting new trends that we can expect throughout the year.

Held in Orlando, Florida, the 2020 Citrix Summit is the premier event in the partner community calendar. Spanning three days, the event covers current trends, key upcoming topics and the future of work to help clients succeed.

David McDonnell joined Forfusion as a Senior Engineer in May 2019 and is responsible for network installation, as well as providing both pre-sale and engineering support, for our varied client base. Below, he discusses the Forfusion culture, projects he’s worked on and places he’s visited as part of the company.

One of the ‘Holy Grails’ of on-premise (or private cloud) and public cloud delivery is allowing these disparate entities to function in the same management and networking domains. The process, which can be carried out manually, is labyrinthine in its complexity, with lots of individual components and policies that cannot be managed centrally, making deployment and continued support a daunting prospect.

We are delighted to announce that Forfusion has triumphed at this year’s Cisco Momentum ACES Awards, scooping the ‘Innovation Partner of the Year’ gong for 2019.

ACI demystified

According to Eurostat, 42% of UK businesses are currently using some form of cloud computing. And with more and more companies becoming aware of the cloud’s countless advantages and innovations, that percentage is rapidly increasing. Cloud computing and hybrid cloud solutions are increasing businesses’ scalability and mobility, drastically reducing costs and innovating their services. When controlled carefully, it can also be beneficial towards cybersecurity – safeguarding even the most sensitive and highly-regulated data.

In an ever-growing world of technology, organisations have no choice but to keep up or fall behind. Since aged infrastructures can no longer support the technical advancements of today, business owners who fail to modernise put themselves at serious risk of losing out to competitors. To fulfil any potential business opportunities, it’s important that your data centre is at the forefront of technology - so that it’s as agile, flexible, secure and as cost-efficient as possible. Here’s how a modernised data centre can improve your business.

We’re living in a consumer’s world. One that must shape and shift to adapt to their ever-changing needs instead of calling the shots. Today’s digital generation is empowered, impatient and demanding. Brand loyalty hangs by a thread and the smallest oversight can break it entirely. A 4-second website load time could be enough to lose your potential customer. In fact, according to Google, 53% of mobile website visits are abandoned if a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load.