#integrated environment

Employees today are increasingly likely to work from outside the office, employing a variety of endpoint devices to complete business tasks. For all their productivity and collaboration benefits, however, these devices create multiple avenues for introducing malware, exposing sensitive information and compromising user identities.

According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2017 State of Endpoint Security Risk Report, organizations of all shapes and sizes reported they are struggling to secure the ever-increasing number of endpoint devices being used in the workplace. Survey respondents said that each successful endpoint attack cost $301 per employee due to lost productivity, downtime, data theft and damage to the IT infrastructure.

Lenovo is leading the way in securing devices, protecting sensitive data and guarding against today’s threats. According to CVEDetails.com, Lenovo devices had up to 99 percent fewer common vulnerabilities and exposures than major competitors in the first half of 2018. And now Lenovo has introduced ThinkShield, a layered approach to securing devices throughout their lifecycle.

The protection afforded by ThinkShield starts with user authentication. A founding member of the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, Lenovo offers the industry’s first and only FIDO-certified authenticators — plus match-on-chip fingerprint technology — to give companies safer, easier ways to protect their employees’ identities. ThinkShield also provides up to seven authentication factors through Intel Authenticate.

ThinkShield protects users while they are online by detecting and blocking threats. Lenovo Wi-Fi Security, in partnership with Coronet, notifies users when they are about to connect to unsafe wireless networks. BUFFERZONE technology isolates online threats before they infect the entire organization.

In addition, IT teams gain a number of tools to help them protect users and their data. BIOS-based Smart USB protection makes it possible to configure USB ports to respond only to keyboards and pointing devices. Lenovo Endpoint Management, powered by MobileIron, provides a secure, simple way to unify cloud and endpoint security across multiple devices.

Absolute Persistence technology provides IT admins with an unbreakable connection to all of their devices so that they can leverage enriched asset intelligence, automate endpoint hygiene and stay audit-ready with continuous compliance. Once devices reach the end of their lifecycle, Lenovo keeps potentially sensitive data secure by wiping the drives and securely recycling the parts. Lenovo also offers a paid Keep Your Drive service that ensures sensitive information never leaves customers’ hands.

From secure BIOS and firmware development to features like ThinkPad Privacy Guard security screens and the industry’s first laptop camera shutters, Lenovo builds protection into its products. Security doesn’t stop at design, however. Lenovo has unique control over its global supply chain, setting strict security standards and policies for its manufacturing facilities. Lenovo oversees the security of suppliers who build intelligent components, making sure they conform to rigorous Trusted Supplier Program guidelines and best practices. For an extra layer of transparency, Lenovo Quality Engineers can audit suppliers at any time.

Most organizations could be more productive. Many business processes and workflows have bottlenecks that impede the productivity of individual employees and the organization as a whole. Given that “productivity” is defined as “yielding results, benefits or profits,” it becomes clear that “improving productivity” should be an operational imperative. But how do you achieve that objective?

A new Techaisle study of small to midsize (SMB) business leaders finds a close correlation between productivity and technology. When asked how technology can be used to improve business processes, 57 percent said that it enables automation while just over 50 percent said it helps to coordinate activities across functional areas.

Specific technologies were cited as having a beneficial effect on productivity. In 62 percent of SMBs, the top three benefits of mobility are improving employee workflows, enhancing internal business operations and improving communications. Communication and collaboration also improve productivity and enable faster decision-making. Cloud computing is seen as increasing collaboration, enabling mobility and improving productivity overall.

All of these technologies — mobile, collaboration and the cloud — are tightly intertwined. It’s the integrated environment that gives employees the collaboration tools, applications and connectivity they need to become more productive.

In our last post we introduced the concept of the integrated environment and discussed how it optimizes IT operations and the user experience. Its focus is on empowering users with the information and tools they need to work more efficiently, serve customers betters, and respond rapidly to changing market conditions. That’s because productivity isn’t just doing more with less — it’s doing things more effectively.

Getting there isn’t easy. The Techaisle study found that productivity-enhancing technologies do not uniformly benefit organizations. Those that are most advanced in their IT capabilities are more than twice as likely to see productivity improvements as those organizations that are least advanced. The most sophisticated organizations have not only implemented key technologies but developed a strategic approach that enables real improvements in productivity.

According to Techaisle, organizations need a trusted advisor who can guide them toward the right technology investments and help them take full advantage of productivity-enhancing solutions. Rahi Systems is uniquely qualified for this role.

Our team has expertise across the integrated environment, from conferencing and collaboration tools to cloud and mobile apps to all of the cloud and on-premises infrastructure that makes it all work together seamlessly. We also have highly refined logistical processes for provisioning, configuring and delivering endpoint devices, on-boarding new users, and replacing devices when they fail.

Most importantly, the Rahi team has the proven ability to help organizations develop and implement a workplace strategy that empowers productivity. We help organizations optimize the IT environment to minimize downtime, reduce operational overhead and respond to changing business requirements.

The traditional IT environment is built using best-of-breed components to support monolithic applications. Distinct teams of individuals are tasked with administering and maintaining servers, storage subsystems and networking equipment. As a result, IT personnel tend to view this environment as a discrete set of systems, with only a vague idea of how they function as a whole.

The IT environment is evolving as organizations implement more flexible and agile systems. Hyper-converged infrastructure and software-defined architectures make it possible to roll out applications and services more quickly and scale to meet changing demands. Still, IT is concerned with individual technology components and the operational tasks that must be performed to keep things running smoothly.

Users have a very different perspective. They have little or no knowledge of the complex array of systems that make up the IT environment. They’re only concerned with the applications and data they need to access to do their jobs. They want to use collaboration tools to communicate with colleagues and customers and share information. And they want everything to work together in an intuitive way.

At Rahi Systems, we call this the “integrated environment” — the synergistic whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts. The integrated environment encompasses all of the technology components that support and enable organizational processes. That includes the devices and applications users interact with and the supporting infrastructure behind the scenes. When everything works together seamlessly, you can optimize the user experience and streamline IT operations.

The data center forms the core of the integrated environment. It may be located on-premises or hosted in a co-location facility, and it will likely incorporate cloud-based services. Increasingly, it will also push out to the edge of the network, reducing latency by bringing processing power closer to users and devices.

All of this is interconnected by local- and wide-area networks that connect devices to users and to each other. The WAN must also provide access to the cloud and connectivity for remote locations. Users frequently connect via the wireless LAN, which must have the capacity to support growing device densities and application requirements.

From there we gain the user’s viewpoint. Increasingly, organizations are leveraging cloud-based productivity apps that give users anytime, anywhere access to the tools they need. Audio/video solutions are also a growing part of the integrated environment. From conferencing and telepresence systems to digital signage and video walls, A/V equipment enables communication, collaboration and information sharing.

The Rahi Systems team has expertise across the integrated environment. We can help you create an optimized infrastructure in any facility and offer a full line of modular components that accelerate data center buildouts. We also maintain relationships with co-location providers around the world and can help you choose the right facility for your needs and budget.

Our engineers have extensive experience in compute, storage and networking solutions, including powerful platforms for data analytics and machine learning. We can help you provision cost-efficient telecom services to support your distributed environment as well as data center interconnects for secure, cost-efficient cloud access.

Our A/V team specializes in the design, integration, installation and support of state-of-the-art A/V equipment. We can help you boost workplace productivity through cost-efficient and easy-to-use communication and collaboration solutions.

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