Mission-Critical Applications and the Public Internet

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There has been a growing trend toward the reduction of operational computing costs in small and medium sized businesses for the last 15 years. Drops in hardware and software costs have fueled this reduction. Enterprise computing has come down to the smallest of enterprises. The low cost and easy access to high speed internet has accelerated thegrowth of iternet applications. Both of these trends have lowered costs.

Today the internet is relied on for every type of business transaction that you can think of through to credit processing between businesses and banking institutions. Yes the internet is an infrastructure that hold the veritable panacea of applications for one low price per month. I can run Virtual Private Network (VPNs) over the internet. I can run my corporate web site on the internet or access my CRM (Customer Relations Management) application. Backup is possible over the net for my mission critical sensitive data to offsite vaults to protect my business. My email communications, fax communications, voice communications and video communications are all running over the public internet. Post and courier services no longer carry messages and data to remote locations when we can simply transfer gigabytes of data across the public internet.

Security not withstanding the internet is a pretty cool place to do just about what ever you want. The advent of social networking has moved the interaction of people around the globe into a real live online community. So the internet is a medium for sharing rich and expansive media around the world 7x24x265. This all for one low monthly fee. In fact if we subscribe to Skype we can computer to computer call anyone in the world for free.

So where is the challenge to deploying mission critical applications over the internet at large? Well one of the areas is if that application has real time, time sensitive data like voice and video you will soon learn that not all internet connections are created equally. I am not just talking about different types of internet connections, but the same type of internet connections at different locations. This is due to the difference in infrastructure (The age of the cable in the ground). Organizations that widely deploy mission critical applications over the internet must take into consideration the variance in the quality of the internet connections at various locations and with various carriers.

Time sensitive applications such as voice may suffer from your connectivity when net enabled. The quality of line required for specific applications may not be the same and you could be at risk of packet loss and dropped connections. Always delpoy mission critical applications with a backup point of entry and exit to the public networks and other connections. Sometimes a point to point connection can provide the best choice over comlete internet connectivity.

All connections are not created equal, even from the same carrier or supplier. You must reinvest the savings you get in one area with technology to give you better options for access and security

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