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Signals from space: SD-WAN marks the next stage in commercialized space-based comms

CIO

Indeed, from an individual perspective, one of the biggest demands we place on our mobile phones and computers is better connectivity and access to the internet, anytime and anyplace. Companies such as Iridium and Viasat handle highly specialized public and private sector workloads. Who’s winning the space-based comms race?

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound.

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As employees shift from office, Cloudbrink provides a strong, secure internet connection

TechCrunch

Most companies have worked hard over the years to produce strong and secure internet connections in the office, but over the last several years in particular, as more employees have been working away from the office, it’s been difficult for IT pros to reproduce that speed and safety. The first is an app on the end-user’s phone.

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Best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). Companies can’t ignore these security challenges even amid a critical process like migration to a single-vendor SASE solution.

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8 best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). Companies can’t ignore these security challenges even amid a critical process like migration to a single-vendor SASE solution.

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Grounding sky-high cloud costs: 3 hot tips

CIO

Companies are overbuying and underutilizing: Workloads are bursting above agreed capacity in some areas of the business while others have more computing resources than necessary. This is why so many companies are turning to FinOps, a strategic framework that brings together cross-functional leaders to tackle cloud costs from all angles.

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3 business benefits of stronger security using Zero Trust principles

CIO

continues to roll out, the internet of things (IoT) is expanding, and manufacturing organizations are using the latest technologies to scale. While time is of the essence for companies in this transformation process, cybersecurity must not be an afterthought. As Industry 4.0 The second business benefit is cost savings.

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