Remote IT Networking and Automated Management reduces time to troubleshoot Dimension Data

According to Dimension Data’s annual Network Barometer Report, the remote monitoring and automated management reduces the time to troubleshoot faulty networking devices by a massive 75%. Consequently, it takes 32% less time to repair such devices than those not managed in this way. Furthermore, this year’s research again shows a strong correlation between the failures caused by devices and their lifecycle stage.

According to the report, networks have continued to age for the fifth consecutive year, making 53% of the over 70,000 technology devices that were analyzed either ageing or obsolete – up by two percentage points since last year. There’s also been a slight drop in the percentage of obsolete devices – down to 9% from last year’s 11% – while the percentage of ageing devices has increased by four points. The percentage of the current devices analyzed is at its lowest in three years.

The research looked at corporate networks in organizations of all sizes and all industry sectors across 28 countries.

Andre van Schalkwyk, Consulting Practice Manager for Dimension Data’s Networking Business Unit, said, “During the seven-year history of the Network Barometer Report, the average tolerance level for organization’s obsolete devices in their networks has been around 10%. Rarely do organizations allow this to increase beyond 11% before they refresh the relevant devices. The conventional assumption was that an overall technology refresh was imminent, but our data shows that organizations are refreshing mostly obsolete devices, and are clearly willing to sweat their ageing devices for longer than expected. Organizations, therefore, focus their refresh initiatives mostly on technology that has reached critical lifecycle stages when vendor support is no longer available.”

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