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Azure VMware Solution: Connectivity (Part 1)

Perficient

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on Connectivity for Azure VMware Solution (AVS). AVS can bridge the gap between your on-premises VMWare-based workloads and your Azure cloud investments. Read more about AVS, its use cases, and benefits in my previous blog article – Azure VMWare Solution: What is it?

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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

Kentik

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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Digging Into the Recent Azure Outage

Kentik

Azure outage in synthetic performance tests Kentik operates an agent-to-agent mesh for each of the public clouds — a portion of which is freely available to any Kentik customer in the Public Clouds tab of the State of the Internet page. However, not all intra-Azure connections suffered disruptions like this. 24, 2.58.103.0/24,

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Where No (Enterprise) WAN Has Gone Before

Kentik

Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. I recently had the privilege of attending the WAN and AWS Summits in London. Not many years ago, all my WAN projects were IPsec tunnels to a headend, dual hub DMVPN designs, coordinating MPLS handoffs from last mile providers, etc. User to the cloud.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. It worked like magic. We are using both.

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The Consolidation of Networking Tasks in Engineering

Kentik

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. For example, a cloud engineer may be a novice in how encapsulation technologies work.

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News in Networking: VMware for SD-WAN, Google’s SDN, and Chevron’s Cloud

Kentik

This week, VMware announced plans to acquire SD-WAN startup VeloCloud. VMware announced Thursday that it is acquiring VeloCloud, a startup that provides cloud-based WAN. Microsoft reveals network simulator that keeps Azure alive (The Register). This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team.

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