Today, many enterprise CIO’s are of in the midst of a digital transformation journey, migrating more of their business applications and infrastructure to the cloud, including real-time voice calling, video conferencing and collaboration applications. Enterprises are increasingly adopting Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) services […]
Broadband WAN
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For geographically distributed companies, the decision to move to an SD-WAN is a no-brainer. Cost savings is certainly a factor as is greater network and business agility. However, one of the perceived “key features” of SD-WAN, active-active configurations, needs to be well understood and implemented […]
Forty seven percent of CEOs say they are being “challenged” by their board of directors to show progress in shifting toward a digital business model according to the Gartner 2018 CIO Agenda Industry Insights Report. By improving IT operations, organizations can progress and even accelerate […]
The overture to business reality is ending for SD-WAN solutions. Now a company’s entire network, security and software operating environment is deployed in unison, it runs on hybrid infrastructure at the highest levels of service, and is adaptively prioritized to provide functionality at the edge, […]
Continuing our homage to the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List from his former Late Show, Silver Peak is counting down the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router. Click for the #5, #6, #7, #8, #9 and #10 reasons to replace conventional branch […]
The software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) revolution knows no boundaries. Now the technology has found its way into a telemedicine backpack that can deliver real-time communications between doctors and first responders on scene in the field. Telemedicine pioneer swyMed, based in Lexington, Mass., offers a high-performance […]
Sometimes it just comes down to simple economics: You can try to stretch your existing infrastructure to adapt to changing business requirements at a high cost, or you can go with next-generation technology to gain both efficiency and agility. Tennessee Oncology found that by implementing […]
With the advent of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN), companies can fundamentally rethink their networks and how they connect users to applications. And not a moment too soon. Users’ expectations have changed in this always-connected era, and they are bringing such expectations into the workplace. It […]
In the form of the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List segment from his former Late Show, Silver Peak is counting down the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router. Click here for the #10 reason to retire traditional routers at the branch. The […]
The adoption and deployment of software defined WANs (SD-WANs) continues to skyrocket. ZK Research predicts the technology will grow at almost 70 percent CAGR between now and 2022. For most businesses, the WAN is long overdue for an upgrade as conventional router-centric WAN architectures have […]