Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 12, 2020

Modern business models are in the midst of another change, driven by another technology beneficial to enterprises’ IT and operational technology (OT) networks alike: software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN). Benefits of SD-WAN at Remote Locations. Improved User Experience.

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WAN Industry System Network 59

Perficient

MAY 10, 2023

We’ll also cover how to provide AVS virtual machines access to the internet. Since AVS supports both, the gateway can be deployed in either a Hub & Spoke topology or Virtual WAN. Scale units are used instead of a specific SKU when creating a gateway within Virtual WAN. Figure 1: Connectivity into an Azure Virtual WAN.

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Azure WAN Virtualization Internet 97

Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

Most of the history of network operations has been supported by monitoring tools, mostly standalone, closed systems, seeing one or a couple of network element and telemetry types, and generally on-prem and one- or few-node, without modern, open-data architectures. API gateways for digital services. Wireless access points and controller.

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

Legacy network shortcomings led to the rapid growth of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). It eliminates the need for backhauling—routing remote traffic through the data center before accessing the internet—enabling direct access to critical cloud services. This reduces latency.

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Palo Alto Networks

JULY 11, 2023

From connected enterprises, to the internet of things (IoT) and the critical infrastructures supporting the world, today’s network is the lifeline of the global organization. and SD-WAN.

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Network Innovation Meeting IoT 77

Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 13, 2021

Data Center Security. Network Perimeter Internet Edge Security. SDN Virtualized Infrastructure. Internet / Web Security. Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management. Internet Operations Management. We’re looking for presentations in the following tracks and areas: Track | Use Cases. 5G Security.

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Technical Review Firewall WAN Malware 69

Kentik

APRIL 18, 2023

A data-driven approach A strong security posture means constant vigilance, which means the continuous collection and analysis of telemetry from various sources. This includes infrastructure devices involved with running and delivering services and applications, as well as the code underlying those services.

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WAN Data Technical Review Data Center 59

Kentik

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

On top of the critical baseline of understanding what the demands and activities are on your networks, understanding the performance of the traffic flowing across your infrastructure is critical to delivering a great digital experience. Knowledge of what the real traffic is and how it flows in context with the various infrastructures (e.g.

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Network WAN Testing Systems Review 90

Kentik

APRIL 9, 2018

Ensuring application and network performance looms as a critical concern in environments where a new generation of IT software and computing infrastructure spans multiple geographically distributed data centers and a mix of public and private networks, including SD-WAN overlays. But in whose network?

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WAN Cloud Data Center DevOps 40

Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

tasks required to operate today’s complex networks, which span data center, WAN, LAN, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. Managing peering, interconnection, and the overall state of traffic crossing the network edge to and from other networks is critical for any organization doing business on the internet.

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Network LAN WAN Technical Advisors 52

Kentik

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As we end 2020, networking infrastructure has become even more critical to connect people, applications, and the economy and distributed workforce that make the world go. At the same time, networks and IT infrastructure overall are becoming more diverse, dynamic, and interdependent. Data Platform Requirements for Network Observability.

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Network WAN DevOps Infrastructure 122

Kentik

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Traditionally this is done using flow analysis, SNMP, packet capture and other forms of infrastructure telemetry. 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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WAN Technical Review Network Internet 84

Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

When more of the workforce shifts to working remotely, it puts new and different strains on the infrastructure across different parts of the network, especially where VPN gateways connect to the network edge. This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN).

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Network Strategy LAN WAN 69

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. By integrating SD-WAN and cloud security into a common framework, SASE implementations can both improve network performance and reduce security risks. A key component of a SASE framework is SD-WAN.

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WAN Firewall Architecture Data Center 234

Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Many large businesses already have DevOps teams deploying new microservices-based applications in public cloud infrastructure. How are they able to diagnose network problems that might span the cloud provider’s infrastructure, the public Internet, enterprise networks and service provider access networks?

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024. Key considerations.

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WAN Network Firewall Policies 229

Kentik

JULY 10, 2018

This series of guest posts has concentrated on the numerous challenges facing enterprise IT managers as businesses embrace digital transformation and migrate IT applications from private data centers into the cloud. In this post, I would like to finally expand on this theme.

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Tools Cloud Big Data WAN 45

Kentik

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Hold your thoughts for a moment and think about managing the infrastructure OpEx in your business. If you are an enterprise customer who buys Internet/MPLS circuits, with “My Kentik”, you can now view your WAN traffic utilization and understand which departments, WAN sites, and data centers are driving network utilization.

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Network WAN Data Center Analysis 45

Kentik

JUNE 21, 2021

For AWS cloud networks, the Transit Gateway provides a way to route traffic to and from VPCs, regions, VPNs, Direct Connect, SD-WANs, etc. data centers, offices, branches, etc.). They address the growth in intra- and inter-region connectivity, as well as to/from on-premises infrastructures.

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How To WAN Construction Network 82

Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

To quote: “Today’s typical NPMD vendors have their solutions geared toward traditional data center and branch office architecture, with the centralized hosting of applications.”. You’d put a few others — I emphasize “few” because these appliances were and are not cheap — at other major choke points in and out of the network.

Network 40

Network Performance Data Center WAN 40

Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. How it used to be When I started my career in networking, servers were down the hall or in the campus data center. How it used to be When I started my career in networking, servers were down the hall or in the campus data center.

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WAN Enterprise Firewall Internet 98

Kentik

JULY 19, 2021

If there is one thing that those four shifts have in common, it is an increased dependence on the network and the general internet in order to achieve their objective. Another use case for baselining performance could be for comparing network performance in evaluating different SD-WAN solutions.

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How To Network Metrics WAN 64

Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

You could be solving many different issues across several different networks and planes (underlay and overlay) in a complex, hybrid network infrastructure. Send these pings using the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or TCP to one or any of the devices you believe to be involved. You need to move to observability software.

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Network Metrics Tools Software 114

Kentik

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. Being able to leverage cloud services positions companies to scale in cost and time-prohibitive ways without the infrastructure, distribution, and services of cloud providers.

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Network Infrastructure Cloud Artificial Inteligence 97

Kaseya

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What is meant by IT infrastructure? IT infrastructure may be defined as a combination of software, hardware, network services and resources that are required to operate and manage the IT environment of an enterprise. What are the 3 primary components of IT infrastructure? What are the 7 domains of IT infrastructure?

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Infrastructure LAN WAN Technical Review 52

Kentik

OCTOBER 10, 2016

One point he made was that you’re still responsible for performance even if you don’t have control of the infrastructure. If you can’t get the data, how do you answer performance questions? I can deploy some appliance to look at packets and draw some data from it. So it’s pretty easy to get the data that I need to do NPM.

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Network Performance Cloud Big Data 40

Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Addressing the visibility gaps left by legacy appliances in centralized data centers, Kentik NPM uses lightweight software agents to gather performance metrics from real traffic wherever application servers are distributed across the Internet. Is it the WAN? Is it the Internet? Is it the data center?

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Big Data Internet Network Performance 40

Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Those were the early days of the internet, and back then the prominent firewall technology was stateless access control lists (ACLs). ACLs were not able to deal with the emergence of stateful applications, such as internet audio and video applications (or even good old FTP), so a new approach was clearly necessary.

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Network Cloud Firewall Data Center 14

CIO

JULY 11, 2022

The shift to the public cloud from private data centers has been swift and sweeping, and cloud-based applications are the new standard. Data and applications sat inside data centers. Employees accessed the Internet within the confines of the on-premise network. Next-gen security architecture.

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WAN Firewall Wireless LAN 256

Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 13, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments everywhere are focusing on delivering essential citizen services and maintaining critical infrastructure while keeping their workers safe. Recently, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memorandum outlining updates to the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) initiative.

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WAN Data Center Firewall Machine Learning 90

Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Securing headquarters, data centers, branch offices and mobile users isn’t easy – especially when organizations take a traditional approach toward networking infrastructure using firewalls, VPNs and proxies. With Prisma, organizations can securely connect branch offices and mobile users using cloud-based infrastructure.

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Firewall Data Center WAN Hardware 11

Kentik

MAY 16, 2021

In today’s digitally transformed world, everyone from internet service providers to enterprises depend upon high-performing and secure networks for business success. This inability to tie data together — let alone view it — inevitably causes dangerous blind spots. And that keeps network pros up at night. Hail to the Network.

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Network WAN Cloud LAN 72

Kentik

DECEMBER 8, 2020

What is called “the network” is indeed a myriad of paths between infrastructure elements, physical and virtual, dynamic and context-rich, hard to make sense of. 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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WAN Analytics Network Business Intelligence 94

Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 22, 2021

To help enterprises get the most out of SASE, Orange Business Services has enhanced its partnership with Palo Alto Networks to offer Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN as an integrated solution. The combination of Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN delivers the industry’s most comprehensive SASE platform.

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Network WAN Firewall Enterprise 55

Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

By Koroush Saraf, VP, Product Management for SD-WAN. In Gartner’s words: “The secure access service edge is an emerging offering combining comprehensive WAN capabilities with comprehensive network security functions, such as SWG, CASB, FwaaS and ZTNA, to support the dynamic secure access needs of digital enterprises.”

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WAN Network Firewall Cloud 11

taos

OCTOBER 10, 2019

When I was at Joyent, we created what would become one of the first public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds and I spent nearly 3 years giving very basic “What is the Cloud?” Moving from Red Hat Linux on Dell servers in your data center to Amazon Linux in the cloud could be a daunting task.

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Cloud WAN Weak Development Team Data Center 40

Kentik

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But respondents (hailing from network, data center, and security operations teams) surfaced five main predictions for the year ahead. More SD-WAN growth. The advent of cloud and virtual infrastructure is driving automation up and down the stack, and it’s dragging networking into the fold. More SD-WAN Growth. “SD-WAN

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Network WAN Machine Learning Artificial Inteligence 40