This is the second of a two-part blog series that explores how enterprise IT leaders can effectively measure the return on SD-WAN investments. In my first installment of this series, I discussed how IT leaders can make a business case for moving from a traditional […]
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Improved network security is a top business driver of SD-WAN adoption, as a previous blog in this series revealed. However, SD-WAN isn’t necessarily an off-the-shelf panacea for all your network security challenges. While the typical SD-WAN products include some native security capabilities, an enterprise must […]
This is the part-one of a two-part blog series that will explore the return on investment that can be achieved by deploying a business-driven SD-WAN. In this installment, I will discuss how enterprise IT organizations can make the business case for moving from a traditional […]
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 […]
Why are customers moving to SD-WAN? With more than 70 percent of applications having already moved to the cloud, forward-thinking enterprises are re-thinking their WAN strategy to attain the best return from their cloud investments. Many have discovered that traditional router-centric architectures that backhaul all […]
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 our homage to the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List from his former Late Show, Silver Peak continues to count down the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router. Click for the #7, #8, #9 and #10 reasons to replace traditional branch routers […]
In a recently conducted global end-user survey by Frost & Sullivan including 850 enterprise IT decision makers from eight countries and five key industries, SD-WAN emerged as a top three technology priority in the next 12-24 months along with hybrid cloud services and network and […]
With homage to 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 for the #8, #9 and #10 reasons to retire traditional branch routers. The #7 […]
The Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) market has been maturing for several years now, as a wide variety of enterprises revamp not only their WAN architectures, but also begin to shift toward a business-first networking model that enables them to accelerate digital transformation and cloud initiatives. […]