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 […]
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The concept of local internet breakout is a concept that’s been tossed around for decades. Sure, maybe you know a guy, who knows a guy that talked to a guy who deployed it once, but that’s about as close as any of us have come […]
As a sports fan, there are many events that I look forward to every year. There’s the Super Bowl, NCAA College Football Championship game as well as the playoffs for MLB, NHL and NBA. However, these all have one thing in common – they’re generally […]
I’d like to wish everyone a hearty Happy New Year! This is the time of year that we make promises to ourselves like saying we will get to the gym more often, lose weight, not text and drive and other things that should improve our […]
Last month, I authored a blog post that asked whether it was time for enterprises to move on from the branch router. In that blog, I framed the other options available to organizations that want to head down that route, but I didn’t really emphasize […]
The SD-WAN market continues to experience phenomenal growth. A September 2017 IDC SD-WAN survey highlights that 75 percent of U.S. enterprises plan to adopt an SD-WAN solution in the next two years. Enterprises are eager to embrace and deploy SD-WAN solutions because they provide many […]
SD-WAN technologies are becoming mainstream as distributed organizations experience the benefits of plentiful internet bandwidth, prioritized access to critical applications, and the ease of centralized management. Leading IT organizations are deploying SD-WAN solutions with software-based routing and displacing traditional branch router architectures. Over time, Doyle […]
The 80s are hot again. Even today’s younger generation has an appreciation for 80s music, 80s clothes and 80s style. Personally, I can’t blame them since I’m a product of the 80s. So, when we started to put our heads together to come up with […]
The rise of cloud applications has been well documented on this site and others. The cloud era kicked off with a handful of SaaS applications, such as ERP, CRM and HR systems. Today, businesses are buying almost everything from the cloud from compute services, contact […]
Cyber security remains a hot topic with nearly every IT and business leader that I speak with. In particular, there seems to be an intensified focus on network security. Security is typically deployed in layers (network, compute and application), and I expect that model to […]