Tag: sd-wan

February 20, 2024

IBM has significantly expanded its Cisco-focused professional services with new support and implementation options aimed at helping customers build more tightly integrated, better performing networks. IBM’s Technology Lifecycle Services (TLS) group has added support for Cisco’s software defined networking and […]

September 28, 2023

SD-WAN deployments continue to grow at an impressive clip, and the leading adoption drivers include cloud connectivity requirements, interest in SASE packages, the promise of simpler WAN management, and cost savings potential, according to IDC. The research firm evaluated 12 […]

September 14, 2023

SASE = SD-WAN + SSE is an equation that has become conspicuous in the security industry. If you aren’t a cybersecurity professional, you might mistake it for a high school advanced algebra problem or perhaps one of Einstein’s scientific formulas. […]

January 10, 2023

Businesses have been transitioning to cloud computing for the better part of the past two decades, and during that time, cloud has gone through many evolutionary phases. At the turn of the century, “cloud” referred to hosted services where business […]

January 6, 2023

I’ve predicted that virtual networks will be hot in 2023, but that begs the question of what exactly a “virtual network” is. One definition says, “not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so”, and […]

December 16, 2022

Hybrid and multicloud initiatives will continue to shape enterprise IT in 2023, and the impact on data-center networking will be felt across key areas including security, management, and operations. Network teams are investing in technologies such as SD-WAN and SASE, […]

June 2, 2022

Cisco and Kyndryl have partnered to help enterprise customers implement a broad range of technologies from private 5G to data-center gear to edge devices. Under the partnership the companies will also provide software-defined networking (SDN), and secure multi-network wide area […]

July 9, 2021

The world is changing. Companies now employ a distributed enterprise, extending from campus headquarters to employees’ home offices. However, as enterprises integrate this change, traditional WAN architectures hinder workload migration to the cloud, whilst also impacting productivity levels of remote […]

December 10, 2020

Amazon Web Services has rolled out a new, more native way to connect SD-WAN infrastructures with AWS resources. Introduced at its re:Invent virtual event, AWS Transit Gateway Connect promises a simpler, faster, and more secure way for customers to tie […]

November 2, 2020

Cyberattack surfaces are constantly growing as organizations upgrade their network services with digital innovations. And this is only exacerbated when these digital innovation initiatives involve migrating to multi-cloud environments. Further, as remote work leads to an increased reliance on data […]

September 23, 2020

Cisco has further broadened the cloud-integration options available to its SD-WAN customers with new connectivity options to AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services. With these additions, Cisco’s goal is to ensure cloud-destined traffic gets into the cloud network faster, improving […]

July 23, 2020

Few companies understand risk better than financial services firms. Large banks, hedge funds, and private equity shops thrive or fail based on their ability to accurately assess risk. At Nasuni we count several prominent hedge funds and investment firms among […]

July 1, 2020

As companies rapidly adopt multi-cloud platforms and services, security concerns have ramped up. Organizations now have to think about securing both access and connections to the data and applications that are increasingly moving outside of the enterprise. At the same […]

June 12, 2019

As many companies look to SD-WAN technology to reduce costs, improve connectivity and streamline branch office access, one of the key requirements will be solid security technologies to protect corporate resources. At its Cisco Live customer event here this week, […]

March 4, 2019

Juniper has entered into an agreement to buy advanced wireless-gear-maker Mist Systems for $405 million. For Juniper the Mist buy could be significant as it currently depends on agreements with partners such as Aerohive and Aruba to deliver wireless, according […]

February 5, 2019

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and public cloud IaaS services both offer powerful benefits to virtually any business. Many of these same businesses, however, are missing out on an incredible opportunity by either accessing the internet using SD-WAN technology or using public […]

November 13, 2018

In spite of an overall lack of education and skills relating to clouds, friendly networking technologies, the results revealed more and more EMEA businesses are investing in software defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), a technology that helps users access the […]

July 23, 2018

Though I no longer actively participate in it as a pioneering player in the networking space I have always kept a watchful eye on the market and I am seeing yet another disruptive force known as SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking) […]

June 4, 2018

In the eternal words of Yogi Berra, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” So how does this sage advice apply to the new world of application performance and hybrid IT? As the pace […]

May 15, 2017

It’s a great time to be in the SD-WAN business. IDC estimates that worldwide SD-WAN revenues will exceed $6 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 90% over the 2015-to-2020 forecast period. According to IHS, […]