Remove Data Center Remove Infrastructure Remove Policies Remove WAN
article thumbnail

Thinking outside the cloud: bring cloud agility to your entire infrastructure

CIO

Cloud is also a powerful catalyst for improving IT and user experiences, with operating principles such as anywhere access, policy automation, and visibility. But what if you could take the best principles of cloud and apply them across your entire IT infrastructure?

Agile 278
article thumbnail

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.

Network 263
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

Why Next-Generation SD-WAN Is Critical to Avoid Failure in Mainstream Deployments. The SD-WAN market is at a critical inflection point. We are past the early adopters phase and mainstream enterprises are now looking to deploy SD-WAN. Legacy SD-WAN. Enabling “anywhere work” by extending SD-WAN benefits to teleworkers.

WAN 92
article thumbnail

Rapid Digital Transformation Requires Rethinking of Security Frameworks

CIO

All these variables force the need for organizations to transform their security postures to protect against cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities. Security inside and outside the organization needs to be based on policies developed for their specific needs. The increased adoption of cloud computing also poses inherent challenges.

article thumbnail

Where No (Enterprise) WAN Has Gone Before

Kentik

Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. To succeed as an engineer in this new network, and to successfully manage the infrastructure and services that deliver applications to people, we must rid ourselves of two-dimensional thinking. But the universe isn’t two-dimensional, is it? User to the cloud.

WAN 59
article thumbnail

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.

Network 105
article thumbnail

Private 5G and edge computing: a perfect match for manufacturing

CIO

Private 5G is deployed as an extension of an organization’s WAN. You can rely on it to transmit data. But if you don’t have a computing resource at the edge where the data is collected to create actionable intelligence in real time, you’re missing out on revolutionary possibilities.

WAN 261