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 […]
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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 […]
Reliably and securely connecting remote users to applications and services is not a trivial task. In today’s world, the new reality is that enterprises must be prepared to support a “work from anywhere” model, or at a minimum support a growing number of remote users. […]
Note: If you have questions about solving your remote user application or network challenges or have feedback about what’s working or isn’t for your organization, please feel free to share in the comments below this article. We will do our best to respond quickly to […]
A modern car’s parallel park assist feature is a great invention that saves time, but it can’t make intelligent decisions about where to park or take into account no parking zones and street cleaning days. A driver still needs to be present. That is, until […]
The expression “hindsight is 20/20” couldn’t be truer for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN). To summarize the past few years: Cloud computing and digital transformation drove companies to reevaluate traditional WAN technology, which no longer met their growing business needs. That’s when SD-WAN emerged as a […]
In my most recent blog post, I talked about the difficulty SD-WAN vendors have in finding their voice and clearly differentiating their value. My point was if Wendy’s, Burger King and McDonald’s could figure out how to differentiate their burgers and fries, we should be […]
I’m going to say something you may not want to hear, or you may already know: implementing SD-WAN is hard. Among the promise and hype of automation, dynamic path selection, zero-touch provisioning and a cloud-ready WAN, lies a trail of failed SD-WAN projects, with many […]
Imagine migrating your entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. In order to accommodate this shift, you need a robust and agile WAN edge infrastructure to support the new cloud applications. That’s the challenge recently undertaken by eSilicon, a leading provider of complex application-specific integrated circuits […]
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 […]