Parents and CIOs have something in common – they can both get annoyed by rapid growth. While parents might be frustrated by children outgrowing their clothes and shoes every few months, CIOs are pulling their hair out as they try to keep pace with rocketing data growth.
Fortunately, most children will only grow a couple of inches per year, whereas enterprise data is increasing by around 60 per cent every 12 months. To put that into perspective, if a 10-year-old child was growing at the same rate they’d be almost three feet taller by the time they blew out the candles on their 11th birthday.
For CIOs, trying to keep IT systems running, whilst data traffic grows and grows, can be incredibly frustrating. Not only do they have to work out how to overcome the technical obstacles that this creates, they must also get extra budget approved for upgrades.
To assess the size of the problem we spoke to 500 CIOs about their network woes. Some 52 per cent told us that they’re constantly frustrated by the amount of time that they have to spend upgrading existing systems. With one in three CIOs forced to upgrade their Virtual Private Networks (VPN) at least once a year at a cost of £30,000 on average, it’s easy to see why they’re losing their patience.
CIOs shouldn’t just be fighting to keep up with demand, they should be driving the business forward with innovative IT. But to do that they need time and money – both of which are almost always in short supply. To free CIOs from the never-ending network upgrade cycle, we’re launching Big Red VPN – a new service that offers access to unconstrained bandwidth for a flat price.
With Big Red VPN you get as much bandwidth as you need for a fixed cost, without having to worry about needing more budget to pay for upgrades. And with packages available at 10Mbit/s, 100Mbit/s or 1Gbit/s there’s a solution to suit organisations of all sizes.
If you’re fed up with upgrading your growing network all the time and want a simpler solution, you can find out more about our new Big Red VPN service here, or give us a call on 0800 953 0180.
