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What’s next for network operations

CIO

Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center. They rely on centralized security performed by backhauling traffic through the corporate data center, which impairs application performance and makes them expensive and inefficient.

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CIO Confidential: What Keeps CIOs and IT Leaders Up at Night

CIO

To get to the heart of these pain points, we sat down with CIOs and IT leaders across industries to candidly discuss where they are in their digital transformation journeys, the emerging infrastructure technologies they’re using, and their biggest fears and pressures when it comes to the future of their business.

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"Help me Obi-Wan, InfiniBox is our only hope."

Infinidat

"Help me Obi-Wan, InfiniBox is our only hope." In our larger data centers, there were rows and rows and, more, rows of storage frames with at least 4 SAN Fibre channel fabrics, each consisting of three to four thousand ports along with multiple thousands of servers. " Evan Doherty. Thu, 05/26/2022 - 12:42.

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Busting 4 common SD-WAN misconceptions

CIO

When organizations began to fully embrace both the work-from-anywhere (WFA) user model and multi-cloud strategies, IT leadership quickly realized that traditional networks lack the flexibility needed to support modern digital transformation initiatives. Below are four common myths about SD-WAN: SD-WAN causes latency : This is not true.

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What’s Driving Advanced Network Analytics Adoption? Instant ROI

Kentik

Data center consolidation (26%). Software-defined data center, SD-WAN, and the convergence between network operations and security operations were other notable drivers, according to the survey. Risk regarding data sovereignty conflict (22%). Lack of leadership - unsupportive management (20%).

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Intel embraces SDN to modernize its chip factories

CIO

Until recently, software-defined networking (SDN) technologies have been limited to use in data centers — not manufacturing floors. Our concept was to use data center technologies and bring them to the manufacturing floor,” says Rob Colby, project lead. blueprint, unveiled in 2021, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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Reimagining the Campus Experience in the World of Hybrid Work

CIO

Naturally, the network infrastructure plays a big role. Hybrid employees are bringing their bandwidth-intense apps to the office with them, and if the infrastructure can’t manage all that network traffic, it can negatively impact the business. . Home Office vs Workplace: How Does Your Network Measure Up?

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