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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO

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. So, Swift signed on before the official launch of Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC roughly one year ago. “It

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

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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. As the number of connected devices grows—from smartphones to tablets, and more—this strain on WAN bandwidth is inevitable. BYOD Will Fail to Live up to the Hype.

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comdivision – Cloud expertise from design to deployment and management

CIO

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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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

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.”. But you can’t do any of it without the instrumentation of cloud-friendly monitoring and the scalability of big data.

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How to Navigate Market Pressures with Cloud-based Network Management

CIO

Aruba’s cloud-based network management solution – Aruba Central – is a powerful, scalable solution that offers a single point of visibility and control to oversee every aspect of wired and wireless LANs, WANs, and VPNs across campus, branch, remote, and data center locations.

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Implementing a Cost-aware Cloud Networking Infrastructure

Kentik

This might include caches, load balancers, service meshes, SD-WANs, or any other cloud networking component. Network operators should beware of using on-demand pricing for long-running or resource-intensive workloads, as this can expose the organization to dramatic costs in high-demand windows.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

Performance If not adequately accounted for, the additional data infrastructure, monitoring efforts, and redundancy measures can soak up bandwidth available in data centers and cloud contracts, leading to network issues like cascading failures that can be difficult to place.

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