Kentik

JUNE 14, 2023

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.

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WAN Enterprise Data Center Internet 59

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Modern networks allow you to proactively monitor, manage and reduce infrastructure energy consumption – something NTT DATA has also implemented in our own data centers. Sustainability is also important when considering how cables and infrastructure are manufactured.

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Sustainability Network Generative AI WAN 240

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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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Technical Review WAN Systems Review Data Center 197

CIO

JULY 11, 2022

With the proliferation of hybrid clouds, SD-WAN, and a plethora of connected devices and digital platforms, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to ensure end-to-end security is in place. Organizations are better served by using an SD-WAN solution that integrates security into the network functionality. Learn more. Network Security

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Network WAN Data Center Technical Review 221

Palo Alto Networks

MAY 26, 2021

As a result, traditional wide area network (WAN) architectures have become a major bottleneck as they fail to enable direct access to cloud applications. Multicloud and SD-WAN. With these challenges and requirements in mind, today, I am thrilled to announce the seamless integration of Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN with Google Cloud.

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WAN Google Cloud Cloud Network 52

CIO

JULY 11, 2022

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

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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.

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Network Engineering WAN Data Center 105

Infinidat

MAY 26, 2022

"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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WAN Storage Software Review USP 98

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 57

CIO

MARCH 16, 2023

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.

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WAN Study Wireless Exercises 233

CIO

JULY 14, 2022

Cyber resilience is among the most important and highly demanded requirements of enterprises today to ensure exceptional cybersecurity and combat cyberattacks across the entire storage estate and data infrastructure. The continuous attempts at comprehensive theft and hostage-taking of valuable corporate data can be overwhelming. .

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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Perficient

MAY 10, 2023

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 includes a sample architecture using 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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Network WAN Wireless Load Balancer 128

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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

New technologies like these are delivering dramatic efficiency gains in many areas; however, they are stressing infrastructure and creating unrealistic expectations. Limited WAN Bandwidth. In a 2014 Next-Generation WAN Survey , 68 percent of respondents said demand for WAN bandwidth will increase over the next year.

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WAN Enterprise Malware Windows 109

CIO

AUGUST 8, 2022

By 2019, with an SD-WAN in place, the firm had deployed video-enabled Microsoft SharePoint and Teams on its Windows-based corporate laptops and had migrated its accounting practice management to Microsoft Azure. More importantly, the benefits led Swift to speed up Grant Thornton’s ongoing digital transformation, with a focus on the desktop.

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Cloud Azure Windows Software Review 227

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

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 73

Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 13, 2021

Data Center Security. SDN Virtualized Infrastructure. Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management. This is a fantastic opportunity for you, your customers and partners to share their stories with a community of top-tier security professionals and researchers. Network Perimeter Internet Edge Security. 5G Security.

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Technical Review Firewall WAN Malware 65

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. Kentik Protect is built to help secure your infrastructure and provide rapid understanding of network activity. These are some of the most basic (but not easy!)

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Network LAN WAN Technical Advisors 52

Infinidat

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Will we see the world moving to the ‘all-flash data center’ that some vendors have been saying is the only storage solution moving forward? containers) with big data lakes behind them. So basically, what Charlie tells us is: You think your data is big now – it’s about to get a LOT bigger. Where’s the Innovation?

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WAN Storage Firewall Data Center 74

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

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

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 225

CIO

MARCH 13, 2023

Over the past two decades, cloud computing has evolved from a method that utilized extra data center capacity to the mission-critical infrastructure across enterprises that we see today. They often had to do a complex workaround of networking, VPNs, and other components to make the infrastructure work,” he says.

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WAN Cloud AWS Data Center 152

CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

comdivision and VMware show how leading-edge cloud solutions help customers gain a competitive lead in their industries For more than 25 years, comdivision has drawn from its deep well of infrastructure knowledge to help organizations gain business value from leading-edge technologies. comdivision was ready to deliver.

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WAN Cloud Data Center Virtualization 221

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.

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WAN Network Firewall Policies 220

Tenable

OCTOBER 7, 2022

On October 6, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with the National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA), identified as AA22-279A, outlining the top 20 CVEs exploited by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored threat actors since 2020.

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WAN Software Review Authentication Systems Review 52

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 7, 2018

This series of blog posts will examine many aspects of ensuring application performance in cloud-scale enterprise WANs utilizing a hybrid of public and private networks. A prime example is the cloud-scale, data-intensive, cognitive computing infrastructure that will support Industry 4.0 applications. Industry 4.0 An Industry 4.0

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Industry Data Center WAN Big Data 40

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

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

Yotascale

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Hoffman has built global sales teams, delivered revenue and developed winning pricing models for companies in several technology sectors, including security, data center networking, and communications equipment and services. His most recent position was chief revenue officer at Aryaka Networks, an SD-WAN-as-a-Service provider.

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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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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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