Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today, I am honored to announce that Palo Alto Networks CloudGenix SD-WAN is recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Infrastructure Magic Quadrant (MQ). To our amazing customers who have followed Palo Alto Networks and CloudGenix, I am sure you are unsurprised by the recognition we are receiving.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

The secure access service edge (SASE) framework in particular enables businesses to upgrade their network edge and security simultaneously, and then managed network and security services can provide much needed expertise and support in a quickly evolving field. The SASE framework is the convergence of network and security services.

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Weak Development Team WAN Data Center Network 231

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

.” – IT leader in financial services In review: CIO Pain Points: How best to utilize cloud strategies for their businesses The Way Forward: As CIOs and IT leaders decide how best to use cloud migration and hybrid cloud strategies for their business needs, enhanced SD-WAN solutions can ensure cloud migration, however it’s used, goes seamlessly.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 billion by 2021, according to a new report from IHS Markit. Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Facebook uses Open/R to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies.

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taos

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Practice Leader & Senior Networking Consultant Where does it make sense?—?cost-wise to invest in WAN Optimization equipment? How do we in good conscience advise a client on whether they should invest the money in WAN Optimization equipment, and at which of their sites? First Published: April 27, 2015, B y Marc Ferreria?—?Practice

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Tenable

APRIL 11, 2019

Tenable Research has discovered a critical vulnerability in Citrix SD-WAN Center that could lead to remote code execution. On April 10, Citrix released a security bulletin for CVE-2019-10883, an operating system (OS) command injection vulnerability in Citrix SD-WAN Center 10.2.x and NetScaler SD-WAN Center 10.0.x

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This week, VMware announced plans to acquire SD-WAN startup VeloCloud. Here are those headlines and more: VMware acquires VeloCloud as it moves deeper into networking (TechCrunch). VMware announced Thursday that it is acquiring VeloCloud, a startup that provides cloud-based WAN. This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Today we announced an evolutionary leap forward for network operations (NetOps), solving for today’s biggest network challenge: effectively managing hybrid complexity and scale, at speed. From the very beginning, the Kentik Platform was designed to collect the most granular data from terabit-scale networks.

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Network LAN WAN Technical Advisors 52

Kentik

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This has to do with the fact that many peering sessions with AS8075 were disrupted during the outage and traffic shifted to traversing transit links and onto the networks of Kentik’s customers in Asia. At that time the share of Other decreases in the stacked plot, meaning many networks on the internet are losing their peering with Microsoft.

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Kentik

MAY 29, 2018

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

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Network Metrics Load Balancer WAN 52

Kentik

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We highlighted the great value-add that Kentik’s service provider customers can now deliver to their end-customers with real-time network data insights. The “My Kentik” portal is a built-in feature of the Kentik platform that enables curated, self-service network traffic visibility for downstream customers.

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Network WAN Data Center Analysis 45

Kentik

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

EMA analyst Shamus McGillicuddy recently published a report on the state of advanced network analytics. The report is full of interesting takeaways from reasons for deployment to use cases after analytics are up and running. What’s driving network analytics? Data center consolidation (26%).

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Analytics Network Case Study WAN 40

Kentik

MAY 28, 2018

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

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Network Performance Metrics WAN 40

Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

On May 27 of this year, Gartner Research Director Sanjit Ganguli released a research note titled “Network Performance Monitoring Tools Leave Gaps in Cloud Monitoring.” 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.

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Network Performance Data Center WAN 40

Tenable

OCTOBER 7, 2022

and allied networks, including software and hardware companies with the explicit goal to “steal intellectual property and develop access into sensitive networks.” Citrix ADC, Gateway and SD-WAN WANOP Path Traversal Vulnerability. Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center RCE Vulnerability. CVE-2019-11510.

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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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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. I disagree! Conclusion.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

Today, in a more and more complex world, we are helping customers move from an on-prem data center to the new multi-cloud world and re-architecting their environment to get the best out of each cloud.” It was only natural for us to help them on this next stage of their journey with a VMware SD-WAN solution.”

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WAN Cloud Data Center Virtualization 220

Palo Alto Networks

MAY 22, 2023

Highest Scores for Enterprise Edge and Distributed Enterprise Use Cases In December 2022, for the eleventh consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls. And on May 16th, Gartner published its Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls report.

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Report Network Firewall Data Center 88

CIO

APRIL 4, 2023

1] As the cloud continues to play a key role in building resilience and enabling agility, the role of the network is more critical than ever before. without a modern network to support it. How should IT organizations modernize their network management in response to new market pressures and how can a cloud-based approach help?

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Kentik

OCTOBER 10, 2016

This post is based on a webinar presented by Jim Frey, VP Strategic Alliances at Kentik, on Network Performance Management for cloud and digital operations. Defining Network Performance Monitoring. Is the network is doing what is expected for delivering applications and services? Key NPM Data Sources.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Cato Networks has spent the last five years building a cloud-based wide area network that lets individuals connect to network resources regardless of where they are. The company reports it has now raised $332 million since inception. Palo Alto Networks to acquire CloudGenix for $420M.

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Network WAN Cloud Data Center 239

Kentik

JULY 24, 2019

Our company was created with a vision of solving any problem for any user wishing to analyze and mine their network traffic data. Our platform has been proven to scale to support the largest networks in the world—while providing rapid query and responses—without rolling up data, thanks to our data architecture.

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Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In November 2021, for the tenth consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, positioned the highest for Ability to Execute and the furthest for Completeness of Vision. And, on January 17th, Gartner published its Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls report.

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Report Network Firewall WAN 77

Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 16, 2023

Today, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023. Zero Trust edge (ZTE) architecture delivers networking and security functions as a service, otherwise known as a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Prisma SASE delivers superior and cloud-delivered ZTNA 2.0

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Network WAN Data Center Construction 86

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. Likewise, edge computing continues to mature, bolstered by ever more powerful, available, and diverse wireless networks. Data and applications sat inside data centers.

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WAN Firewall Wireless LAN 243

Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

On September 20, Kentik announced Kentik NPM, the first network performance monitoring solution designed for the speed, scale, and architecture of today’s digital business. Our Network Performance Management solution, Kentik NPM, sits on top of the Kentik Detect platform. But now you’ve got a really large big-data problem.

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Big Data Internet Network Performance 40

taos

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Technical Consultant If applications like SAP, Oracle, People Soft, and Voice/ Video over IP and or email are running over the WAN (wide area network) then optimization of the bandwidth is a must. Increasing the WAN bandwidth may work for a little while, but eventually, the problem of slow application response will occur again.

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Network Performance Applications WAN 40

Kentik

APRIL 3, 2023

Those calls could be for kernel services, network services, accessing the file system, and so on. Therefore, by looking at the interactions between the application and the kernel, we can learn almost everything we want to know about application performance, including local network activity. How does eBPF work?

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Time-series reporting for performance optimization. And any time you have to deal with something more than a single box can handle, you introduce a whole host of complications (network, NUMA, coordination, and serialization, to name just a few). All of the underlying data lives on distributed nodes across a cluster. Not so fast.

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