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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

CIO

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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Modernizing the WAN from Client to Cloud

Arista

The evolution of WAN architectures has historically paralleled that of application architectures. When we primarily connected terminals to mainframes, the WAN architecture was largely point-to-point links connecting back to data center facilities.

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Thinking outside the cloud: bring cloud agility to your entire infrastructure

CIO

Cloud technology is a springboard for digital transformation, delivering the business agility and simplicity that are so important to today’s business. Cloud is also a powerful catalyst for improving IT and user experiences, with operating principles such as anywhere access, policy automation, and visibility. But that’s not all.

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Don’t let NetOps “gotchas” derail your digital transformation

CIO

In the race to meet these expectations, speed innovation, and stay competitive, organizations continue to adopt transformational technologies and services, such as cloud offerings, SaaS, SD-WAN, and more. SD-WAN Similarly, the adoption of SD-WAN presents both advantages and challenges.

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

CIO

Applications are no longer standalone entities but are now intricate collections of services, APIs, and distributed applications across various cloud environments. APM primarily uses synthetic agents in the cloud for cloud-to-cloud monitoring, effective for application optimization but inadequate for assessing real user experiences.

Internet 203
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What’s next for network operations

CIO

These changes are being driven by growing SaaS adoption, increasing workload migration to the cloud, and the need to support the expanding number of employees who work-from-anywhere. Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center.

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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

Why Next-Generation SD-WAN Is Critical to Avoid Failure in Mainstream Deployments. The SD-WAN market is at a critical inflection point. We are past the early adopters phase and mainstream enterprises are now looking to deploy SD-WAN. Legacy SD-WAN. Enabling “anywhere work” by extending SD-WAN benefits to teleworkers.

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