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Wide-area networks (WANs) have connected remote office locations to corporate headquarters for decades now. Put satellite offices on the corporate network, so the reasoning went, and now remote employees can connect to all internal applications and data available to any headquarters-based cube dweller. Furthermore, WANs […]
Even as we navigate the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, SD-WAN adoption continues to accelerate at a breakneck pace. In fact, with fewer (or no) employees in branch sites for the time-being, some enterprises are accelerating deployments. Why? Many now recognize that WAN transformation […]
Many enterprises are adopting multi-cloud strategies to leverage multiple cloud platforms to support an expanding range of SaaS and corporate workloads, each with unique performance and service level requirements. Typically, connecting branch office users to cloud-hosted applications requires backhauling the traffic to the corporate data […]
WAN and security transformation powers a secure access service edge that maximizes the return on cloud investments As part of their digital transformation strategy, many enterprises are actively migrating applications to public cloud infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service offerings. Enterprise IT objectives and expected benefits of cloud […]
Now that COVID-19 has been with us for several weeks, office workers and other professionals have largely settled into their work from home (WFH) routines. Many people don’t have the luxury of a job they can perform from home, and 10 percent of the homes […]
While it can be argued that we are still only beginning to understand the medium-to-long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is presumably a given that most businesses will have to contemplate material changes to their strategies, business models and operations. There seems to be […]
Once in a while, innovations come along that have a drastic impact on the way we work and live. The personal computer, the internet, and the smartphone are a few examples. Each contributed to the digital explosion by enabling widespread use of computer technology, ushering […]
Doing anything at scale has been a challenge throughout history, whether it was building the ancient pyramids or architecting a modern enterprise WAN. With an onslaught of new applications and services, evolving security, and global infrastructure shifting to the cloud, automation is fast becoming key […]
By: Adam Fuoss (Silver Peak) and Greg Taylor (Gerresheimer) As companies continue to pivot users from branch offices to home offices, many are tasked with providing a seamless and secure platform for connecting a now fully remote global workforce to applications and services. One company […]
A customer contacted me to share some frustrations. Until recently, Tom, as I’ll refer to him, had been working from various office locations across the United States – all sites were connected to a Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect™ SD-WAN. Following a decision to temporarily move […]