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Busting 4 common SD-WAN misconceptions

CIO

When organizations began to fully embrace both the work-from-anywhere (WFA) user model and multi-cloud strategies, IT leadership quickly realized that traditional networks lack the flexibility needed to support modern digital transformation initiatives. Below are four common myths about SD-WAN: SD-WAN causes latency : This is not true.

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The Role of SD-WAN in Securing the Expanding Network Perimeter

CIO

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024. Key considerations.

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Why Internet Performance Monitoring is the new frontier in a distributed world

CIO

This ecosystem relies heavily on core internet services such as DNS and BGP, while networks have evolved to embrace a variety of complex architectures, including IPv4/6, WAN, SD-WAN, SASE, EDGE, and 5G technologies. In its original form, APM was conceived over 30 years ago for a much simpler time.

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SASE Reality Check: Security and SD-WAN Integration Journey

CIO

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. When networking and network security requirements are managed by separate IT teams independently and in parallel, do you achieve the best architecture for digital transformation?

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What’s next for network operations

CIO

Enterprise networks are undergoing a profound transformation. Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center. More importantly, WANs lack the flexibility and scalability that digital business requires.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. The spread of convergence Convergence is important to reducing cybersecurity complexity because it brings together the network and its security infrastructure into a single layer. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are.

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