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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. “We We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.

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News in Networking: Security-Defined Networking, SD-WAN, and Container Strategies

Kentik

SD-WAN is still hogging the spotlight, but CenturyLink says it’s “no quick fix.” Not everything is suited for virtual machines,” said the telecom giant’s CTO. CenturyLink: SD-WAN No Quick Fix (Light Reading) The hype of SD-WAN is here. Not everything is suited for virtual machines,” Fuetsch told SDxCentral.

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Mio raises $8.7M Series A to make enterprise messaging interoperable

TechCrunch

Traditionally, those kinds of conversations used to happen in pre-planned meetings, whether in-person or virtually, but the pandemic only accelerated the move toward enterprise messaging services for this use case, too. Image Credits: Mio.

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What we learned at MWC Barcelona 2023

Capgemini

Cisco and NTT have partnered to bring managed private 5G solutions that can be integrated with enterprises’ pre-existing LAN/WAN and Cloud infrastructures. The interest from many spheres of the industry is coming to overcome these challenges through AI and virtualization.

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Cloud-Scale Visibility Tools: The Right Stuff

Kentik

Monitoring needs to span multiple domains: the private enterprise data center and WAN; fixed and mobile service provider networks; the public Internet; and hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. Hadoop-based data lakes support offline batch processing on massive amounts of data for gaining business intelligence insights.

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US Cybersecurity Agency CISA Alert: Foreign Threat Actors Continue to Target Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Tenable

CISA reports that foreign threat actors in China and Iran are exploiting flaws in Pulse Connect Secure, a popular commercial virtual private network (VPN) solution. Vulnerability in Citrix Application Delivery Controller, Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance. CVE-2019-19781. CVE-2020-0688. CVE-2020-5902.

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Making Network Performance Monitoring Relevant for Cloud and Digital Operations

Kentik

Instrumentation Challenges: When I owned all of my infrastructure, my data centers, my own WAN, and my own network, it was pretty straightforward for me to say, OK, I know where I can go and instrument for network performance data. If you can’t get the data, how do you answer performance questions? Three NPM challenges.

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