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In April of 2017, Cisco put both feet into the SD-WAN waters with their purchase of San Jose, Ca.-based Viptela, a privately held SD-WAN company. One of the biggest reasons for the acquisition was its ability to easily integrate Viptela software into Cisco’s platforms. Prior to the acquisition, Cisco’s SD-WAN
By Richard Arneson SD-WAN (software-defined WAN) has been all the rage for a few years now, coming to the rescue of enterprises that had spent considerable chunks of their IT budgets on MPLS to connect offices scattered through the world. But it’s not to be confused with SDN (software-defined networking),
By Richard Arneson We’ve all heard of it; we know our company should be striving to achieve it; but what exactly is…digital transformation? Many people, at least those outside of the IT and telecommunications industries, may have been first introduced to the digital world through clocks or CD’s, leaving them
Choose to ignore it and you’ll pay later (just ask the city of Atlanta) In March of this year, the City of Atlanta found out the hard way what failing to do a security check-up can mean. They were hit with the SamSam ransomware, which created an encrypted wall that
Sure, there are many, many benefits of utilizing SD-WAN that go well beyond cost savings, but the dollar signs tend to get the most press (big surprise). But savings aren’t limited to costs reflected solely within IT budget line items―they stretch far and wide, and include, as a byproduct, many
That’s exactly what you’ll get with Dell EMC’s Integrated Data Protection Appliance Two words: data protection. There probably isn’t a more important combination of words in the IT industry. Obviously, Dell EMC agrees―their latest IDPA (integrated data protection appliance) is a turnkey, pre-integrated appliance that brings together protection storage, search
By Richard Arneson If you listen closely, you can practically hear IT professionals the world over asking themselves the same question―“If I utilize the public cloud, how can I maintain control and enjoy the security I get from on-premises infrastructures?” And if that question does indeed steer them away from
By Richard Arneson Remember the days when a new software application meant downloads, licenses, and minimum RAM and processing power requirements? Or when applications resided in a corporate data center and were accessed over expensive, leased lines from service providers, only then to be handed off to the Internet? Expensive,
Aside from the list of positives you’ve likely heard about SD-WAN (and there are many), there’s one thing it isn’t―WAN Optimization. Many incorrectly use SD-WAN and WAN Optimization interchangeably. That isn’t to say SD-WAN doesn’t greatly optimize networks, just that it’s not technically WAN Optimization, which was introduced roughly fifteen
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