Thought Leadership

What is Cloud? There is a great deal of confusion about the definition of Cloud Services. From an enterprise perspective it means being able to access secure, scalable computing resources (processing, memory, storage, and applications) from a shared infrastructure, delivered over a public or private network…read more
Public vs Private Cloud. As businesses look to adopt Cloud services, they have quite different approaches available to them based on what’s been termed Public Cloud and Private Cloud…read more
MDNX positioning in Iaas/PaaS/Saas. Cloud Services have three main layers, which are differentiated by the level at which the customer interacts with the service…read more
MDNX Cloud Services. Many businesses are looking to reduce costs through the consolidation of their IT resources. This means replacing multiple servers and applications spread over disparate sites (and all the related facilities and support costs this includes), into centralised and resilient computing environments….read more
The Business Case for Virtualisation. One of the main drivers for a move to Cloud Services is the cost savings that can be realised through server consolidation and the replacement of hardware servers with virtual machines….read more
Integration vs Aggregation. Competition forces companies to constantly re-invent themselves. It’s a perennial challenge to find the right marketing communication to position a business so that it is distinct from others that it competes against. This constant re-positioning forces companies to explore the versatility of the English language…read more
Why choose EFM? Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) is an innovative access technology used by MDNX for connecting customer sites into Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) and MPLS VPN services. It can also be used as part of a Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multipoint Ethernet service….read more
IPV4 vs IPV6. The depletion of the IPv4 allocation pool has been a concern since the late 1980′s, when the internet really started to see enormous growth. ….read more
Cloud Ready. Comms Business Magazine talks to Wayne Churchill, COO at MDNX about its infrastructure as a Service channel offering. Churchill says that today MDNX is a 40% channel business and that the remainder of the sales are direct to large blue-chip companies…..read more
Clearing the Air. Everyone knows that Cloud Services will play an increasingly significant part in the Channel’s future, yet there remains a host of uresolved issues and questions to be answered in the minds of many when it comes to selling, managing and importantly making a margin as a Reseller…..read more
Real Time QoS. Steve Powell, Product Manager at MDNX says looking back over the last ten years or more, the speed of change in connectivity access for businesses and consumers has not only been breathtaking but inextricably linked….read more
Product Development Leadership. Just 15 years ago, the decisions upon how a network was designed was based on a far more static technology landscape. And signing a 3 or 5 year contract with a provider did not necessarily disadvantage you economically or technically, so it was not uncommon to remain with the same supplier and network design for the duration of the contract….read more