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Where No (Enterprise) WAN Has Gone Before

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Sensors were inoperable from the firefight, and finding anything in the gaseous cloud was near impossible. 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. In other words, both events were all about cloud networking.

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Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Achieving Escape Velocity

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In an ideal world, organizations can establish a single, citadel-like data center that accumulates data and hosts their applications and all associated services, all while enjoying a customer base that is also geographically close. Data mass, data gravity, and escape velocity are all directly related.

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Implementing a Cost-aware Cloud Networking Infrastructure

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What is cloud networking? Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. It’s an umbrella term for the devices and strategies that connect all variations of on-premise, edge, and cloud-based services.

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Preparing for the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Endgame

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While we’re still in the opening phase of the hybrid multi-cloud chess game, I would like to take a look ahead at what enterprises embracing the cloud can expect in what promises to be a complex endgame posing many new technical challenges for IT managers.

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Kentik Firehose: The Missing Piece in Full-stack Monitoring

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Although often unpretentiously represented by a single line or reduced to their famous canonic cloud bubble form, modern networks are anything but that simple. The digital experience became the make or break of the modern business betting on clouds, internet delivery and — with the pandemic — a distributed workforce.

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NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2

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But, this goal gets harder and harder as more and more encryption gets introduced and more services move to the cloud. Consider SD-WAN as another example of DoH causing problems. The SD-WAN controller grants permission to connections based on the top-level domain (e.g., This means all of their data never goes on-premises!

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How to Monitor Traffic Through Transit Gateways

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Cloud traffic is expanding in every direction: east-west, north-south, inter-regions, across-clouds, to the edge, sites, and more. The end result is complex and often brittle networking environments, and cloud professionals are left in the dark. data centers, offices, branches, etc.).

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