Browsing posts tagged with: SD-WAN
Users Need Better Network Performance, Whatever Their Location
September 22, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Which approach is your company taking with MPLS? This breakdown covers the various use cases that might drive the SD-WAN vs. MPLS decision. Remote locations with a lot of streaming business-critical applications (VoIP call centers, maybe) will still likely need MPLS to keep performance strong. But for cloud-driven companies, SD-WAN products that are cloud-enabled can…Continue reading
The Road to Better Performance Is Paved With Networking Technology
September 8, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
We always like to hear the stories of those IT early adopters for a new technology. In this story, it’s several heads of IT who’ve adopted SD-WAN. For both, their companies needed a better way to provision and manage branch office infrastructure. For one, the Bay Club Company, using SD-WAN is actually helping IT drive…Continue reading
The SD-WAN Adoption Curve Brings IT Choice
September 1, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
The adoption curve for technology (what Gartner calls the Hype Cycle) is interesting to watch for various products. As SD-WAN matures, we start to see differentiation between products and types of deployment. This story has a useful breakdown of the SD-WAN choices IT teams can make, whether they install it on-premises only, in a cloud-enabled…Continue reading
How Big Data Causes Big Problems for the WAN
August 31, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
Who doesn’t love data these days? For business leaders, the more data you can collect, the better. Some might resist certain technologies in digital transformation, but it seems everyone can agree that big data analytics makes business life easier. Everyone except IT leaders, that is. While business leaders add ever-increasing data inputs with IoT sensors,…Continue reading
Don’t Jump Off the SD-WAN Cliff Without a Parachute
August 29, 2017 by Alec Pinkham
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
SD-WAN is gaining traction quickly with a lot of businesses. If SD-WAN technology is on your radar, you likely want to improve the performance of networks and applications at remote offices. You may have jumped off the SD-WAN adoption cliff already, or are at least researching and considering it. With SD-WAN’s popularity, it has gained a…Continue reading
Total Eclipse of Network Performance
August 25, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
It’s always fun to stop and take a look at network traffic during specific events when the web is especially in demand—during the Olympics, World Cup, March Madness or whatever your office’s preference is. Here’s a look at how this week’s solar eclipse affected the internet—specifically carrier networks. Lots of good eclipse viewing areas were…Continue reading
WAN Optimization Lives On—Probably
August 18, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
Either WAN optimization is dead, or it’s more important than ever. This story argues that WAN optimization reached its peak in the era of limited bandwidth. Now, though, the technology has lost its usefulness because it can’t improve VoIP or video streaming application performance. On the other hand, this analyst says that WAN optimization should…Continue reading
Update Your WAN for the IPv6 Transition
August 17, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
No one would blame you if you can’t muster up much enthusiasm for IPv6. After all, IPv6 has been “the future” of internet protocols since its inception in 1998, without much evidence it’s happening. Even though you’ve been reading about the impending downfall of IPv4 since 2007, here we are in 2017 watching adoption just…Continue reading
IT Charts a New Remote Office Course With SD-WAN
August 11, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
More healthcare organizations are discovering SD-WAN technology for help managing their many remote locations. It makes a lot of sense—in many ways, healthcare businesses like hospitals and home healthcare facilities are the poster children of the challenges of modern networking. Each remote office or location needs high-performing networks and applications, and most don’t have IT…Continue reading
WAN Challenges Are Overwhelming IT
August 4, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
A recent survey from Dimensional Research found that nearly all respondents are facing multiple WAN security and management challenges. Network complexity is the underlying challenge for most respondents, which they’re aware of, but not addressing. The top three challenges all involve supporting branch offices: Managing devices, mitigating security risks and deploying new solutions at branch…Continue reading