Charities and Not-for-Profit organisations are invited to join key note speakers from Calyx Managed Services, Juniper Networks and SagePay at a Security-focused roundtable event at the famous Tower 42 building in London on Thursday, 21st March at 1.30pm.

Usage of mobile devices has infiltrated every aspect of our lives and is resulting in an increasingly mobile workforce, with employees and contractors using their personal mobile devices to access the corporate network, cloud, applications and data, and a global workforce that demands mobile, remote access to the corporate network, cloud, and resources from virtually anywhere in the world, at any time. With the surge in personal, mobile devices being used in the corporate environment – as well as corporate-issued mobile devices being used personally – the organization no longer has control over this device that is accessing their “crown jewels”, or what a user is downloading on it, or the security of the data that is being accessed and stored.

Please join us.  Click HERE to find out more and register!
 
Date: Thursday, 21st March
Venue: Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London
Time: 1.30pm – 5.00pm
Discussions:

• Bring Your Own Device peer to peer discussion sharing challenges, past mistakes and how to overcome them! 
• Exploring a new security model; one that delivers an effective approach to securing and controlling applications, secures the physical and the virtual world and detects and prevent web attacks from occurring.
• Risks for businesses and their customers of storing, transmitting or processing card data and 12 requirements of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance.

For more information, go to www.calyxms.com/charity-security-forum.

You can find out more about the Charities Security Forum by visiting their website www.charitiessecurityforum.org.uk

Gartner recognises Brocade's VCS® Fabric technology as a well-thought-out solution for virtualised data centres providing 10 and 40 GbE capabilities and a roadmap for 100 GbE. Highlights include simplified and largely automated operations with self-configuring links and switches, as well as fabric support for greater virtual machine mobility. In addition, Gartner commends Brocade for its “pay-as-you-grow” subscription model that enables you to purchase only the network capacity you require today, with the ability to easily scale up or down as your business requirements change.


To read more, click here... Gartner Magic Quadrant

Based on its recent analysis of the unified communications (UC) virtualization market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized Mitel with the 2013 North America Award for Product Leadership. Mitel gained recognition for its pioneering product developments in real-time communications software virtualization, a critical technology that enables customers to migrate part or all of their business communications to the cloud.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that demonstrates innovation in product features, and functionality that provides enhanced quality and higher value to customers.

The award recognizes the rapid acceptance such innovation finds in the marketplace. “While Mitel has used its first-to-market advantages optimally, it has also regularly improved its single software stream to provide the same features, quality of service, warranty, and software assurance programs, no matter how customers choose to deploy its solutions,” said Frost & Sullivan Senior Analyst, Robert Arnold. “The company has streamlined development, sales, training and support, to provide a consistent user experience across private cloud or customer premises equipment, hosted or public cloud configurations.”

Mitel is among the select few that can address customers of nearly any type and size. Benefits,  such as hardware consolidation and unified management, attract small and medium businesses unwilling to acquire the numerous hardware servers that that traditional UC architectures require. Large organizations gain even greater benefits, which are enabled by streamlined operations, including faster installation and upgrade cycles, centralized provisioning, management and control, integration with VMware processor optimization, and business continuity.

To read more, click here... Mitel Award!

Technology has been a key factor in the changing attitudes and expectations of students. It has affected where, when and how they study and indeed their whole student life and university experience. Technology has broken barriers to enable collaborative learning and made education more widely accessible to overseas and special needs students. With students now paying significantly more for higher and further education, they expect technology and information to be available, accessible and valuable to their learning and student experience. http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalstudent/academia

Calyx understands the technology needs of the students and the associated challenges facing those responsible for delivering evermore complex ICT services in Higher & Further Education. Institutions need to deliver innovative technologies and applications to attract students and field-leading researchers, enhance the learning experience and reduce cost, whilst meeting demand for application delivery, connectivity, data access, security and exponential growth in user expectations.

Calyx simplifies the provision and implementation of secure and reliable infrastructure, connectivity, unified communications, networking, applications and security solutions. We offer support from “break fix” through to fully managed services using our own 24/7 NOC and support desk and provide consultancy, project design, implementation and professional services.  As the business of transformation, Calyx knows that to achieve your potential, you should learn from the experts, so visit us on

Stand EH33 at Networkshop 41, Keele University, 9th-11th April ’13.

As technology evolves with lightning speed, it’s tough to keep up with the jargon, security risks, legal implications and potential benefits that are banded about to excess. As new Brocade research shows, the CIO role is altering as the ‘internet of things’ exponentially change the IT landscape, with analysts and publications teeming with studies of the hype, effects and implications of it all.

How did something created for simplicity, become so complex?

They say that addressing the challenge of virtualisation and the incessant increase in data traffic within the data centre is like child’s play – and we can prove it. Calyx, together with Brocade, will show you how a solution can be built in under 5 minutes!

If you’re not sure whether heading North/South or East/West is right for you. If you want to cut through the hype to understand new technologies’ true benefits. If you want to see how to set up a data centre fabric in under 5 minutes, join us on Thursday 14th March at 9.30am and get it right.

“Hasty speed don't oft succeed”? Then allow Calyx and Brocade to materially affect the direction you take!

The Time:  9.30am to 2pm including lunch and competition
The Place:  Brocade Communications, One the Braccans, London Road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 2XH

Click to REGISTER HERE!

Based on recent research gathered from 100 EMEA CIOs across enterprise-sized businesses the cloud is causing CIOs to fundamentally evolve their roles, and will continue to do so in the next few years as they move from being technology-focused to more strategic consultants/mediators. 

Click here to read more...  The Cloud Redefines the Role of the CIO

Charity and not-for-profit sector organisations are invited to join Calyx and Juniper Networks in a webinar discussing how the infiltration of mobile devices in every aspect of our lives is resulting in an increasingly mobile workforce, with employees and contractors using their personal mobile devices to access the corporate network, cloud, applications and data. 

Companies are now challenged with demands to provide access to personal laptops, mulitiple device types and makes, or guest access to contractors and visitors. 
 
Today’s mobile, global workforce also requires mobile, remote access to the corporate network, cloud, and resources from virtually anywhere in the world, at anytime.  With the surge in personal, mobile devices being used in the corporate environment – as well as corporate-issued mobile devices being used personally – the organization no longer has control over this device that is accessing their “crown jewels”. The organization has no control over a user downloading unknown, unapproved or even ill- or unsecured apps to their personal or corporate issued mobile device. Plus, users store all sorts of data on mobile devices, whether they are their own device or the company’s. Personal information such as usernames and passwords, banking information, personal health data and more, as well as sensitive corporate data, critical apps, even corporate IP can be stored on these mobile devices. So, what happens to that stored data if the device is infected, hacked, lost or stolen?”
 
This webinar on Secure Mobility will discuss how Juniper Networks in partnership with Calyx Managed Services address the challenges Mobility presents.

If you would like to attend any of our future webinars or would like to discuss any of the topics below, please call 0207 614 0302 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. today!

• Delivery of integrated connectivity and security anytime/anywhere
• Provide clear visibility of mobile users and enforcement of access to network resources based on identity, role and location
• Minimized risk of loss of corporate data from compromised, lost, or stolen mobile devices
• Reduced IT overhead due to simplified management

You can find out more about the Charities Security Forum by visiting their website www.charitiessecurityforum.org.uk

Today, employees want to make their own decisions about which phone or computer they use both in their personal life and at work. This is becoming a huge problem for organisations of all sizes – even for large and relatively wealthy corporations. Charities are particularly vulnerable as they often cannot justify providing paid staff with the latest technology unless it is proven to bring significant benefits. Yet, in many ways the need for security is more acute for charities, dealing as they do with the financial and highly personal details of often vulnerable people as part of their operations.

Calyx looks at what considerations should be make to minimise the risks of the increasing consumerisation of IT.

Click here to download.  BYOD - Opening the floodgates or harnessing potential?