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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Now, as more faculty, staff, and students are accessing information on-premises and in the cloud, IT has a borderless network and the team is implementing a zero-trust network architecture, says CIO Mugunth Vaithylingam. Still, worldwide spending on all telecom services (fixed, mobile, voice, and data) is forecast to increase 2.3%

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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

The first generation of SD-WAN products were focused on enabling internet broadband-based connectivity to data centers. Dramatically reducing the operating costs of delivering branch services including network, security, visibility, unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and multi-cloud access. Legacy SD-WAN.

WAN 89
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How Leading Companies Support Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

Architectures and Recent Traffic Growth. The panelists discussed how their organizations run their networks and data centers. Equinix connects the world’s leading businesses, including Kentik, to customers, employees, and partners inside some of the most-interconnected data centers. Remote Work-Life Balance.

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