When asked “what is your favorite candy bar?” my response was simple: a peanut butter cup. Somehow, the combination of chocolate and peanut butter in the right proportion perfectly hits the mark. The ubiquitous Reese’s peanut butter cup in its bright orange wrapper always catches […]
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Two integration Options for Palo Alto Prisma Access Cloud-delivered Security Service… and it Makes You SASE! Many Silver Peak SD-WAN customers have adopted Palo Alto Prisma Access cloud-delivered security services. You might be wondering how you can make Silver Peak and Palo Alto work together […]
The underlying technologies that support a cutting-edge enterprise telecom solution like software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) are indeed complex. But that doesn’t mean your deployment of the networking solution in itself has to be labyrinthine and unmanageable. By working alongside a versatile managed services provider […]
For the third consecutive year, Silver Peak has been recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. This has been a tremendous year for Silver Peak and we believe being one of only two companies to be positioned as […]
When Michael Bishop, senior network engineer with SolarWinds, was tasked with upgrading the IT Management company’s global network, the goals included improving network management and visibility while lowering the costs of its legacy MPLS infrastructure. Bishop says the company accomplished all of that and more […]
A year ago on August 30, 2019, Gartner published its seminal report, “The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud[1].” Even more hyped than the term “SD-WAN” a few years ago, nearly every SD-WAN vendor and every security vendor is now marketing and messaging […]
Traditional Networks Were Never Designed for the Cloud Prior to the advent of the cloud, IT was simply a department in an organization where users would go to get their phone issues resolved or their computers fixed. Today, IT plays a far more strategic role […]
The technological revolution in business continues apace. A huge range of technologies have become integral to the way businesses operate, and this dependence on tech is growing all the time. Those firms which fail to keep up with the accelerating pace of technological change – […]
More and more enterprises have migrated business-critical applications to software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings such as Box, Dropbox, Salesforce, and Office365. Backhauling SaaS application traffic to the data center and then to cloud is inefficient and adds to the latency experienced by the application. Therefore, many cloud-first […]
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 […]