Browsing posts tagged with: SD-WAN
The Digital Network Revolution Is Here
July 21, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
Check out this research showing how digital transformation is affecting companies with remote and branch offices. The EMA Research study found that 83% of enterprises are increasing their number of WAN-connected sites, and in 84% of enterprises, the number of network-connected devices is also increasing at remote sites. A majority of businesses surveyed—74%—are also making…Continue reading
Use Caution When Considering Managed SD-WAN Services
July 20, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Whether you’re just starting to learn the basics or you’re researching more specific benefits, you can’t go far without seeing stories about SD-WAN technology. The market for SD-WAN solutions is set to explode and IT publishers are feeding the hype. Sometimes, you might just want to sit back and ignore the hype. You have plenty…Continue reading
SD-WAN or WAN Optimization? Why This Question Doesn’t Cut It
July 17, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Have you joined the rising crowd of IT pros claiming WAN optimization is dead in recent years? It’s the same story with all types of technology at this point. You spend 10 or 20 years relying on yesterday’s innovation, and as soon as something new comes along, the industry is ready to move on. For…Continue reading
SD-WAN Won’t Push MPLS Out
June 30, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
It may have seemed for a moment there that MPLS was on its way out as SD-WAN came onto the scene and businesses with remote locations used more public internet. That’s probably not the case, though. A recent Nemertes Research survey found that about 21% of organizations are deploying some kind of SD-WAN technology. Notably,…Continue reading
What You Need to Know About SD-WAN Technology
June 6, 2017 by Alec Pinkham
As businesses continue to migrate from expensive and inflexible MPLS network architectures, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has emerged as a key technology for managing application and network load over the public internet. It’s particularly good for businesses with a large number of remote locations and an investment in MPLS circuits. What is SD-WAN? Organizations are deploying…Continue reading
Is SD-WAN Really the Remote Location Saving Grace?
May 17, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
How are you holding up against digital transformation? It’s the question looming large over even the most prominent business leaders. But don’t worry—everyone is in the same boat as legacy IT infrastructures get pushed to their limits. However, if you have a large network of remote workers and offices, you might be facing greater challenges…Continue reading
Avoid Cloud Disasters, Embrace the SLA
April 21, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Networking Technology
Talk of IT disasters can spark equal amounts of fear of them happening to us, and gratitude that the big one hasn’t happened to us yet. Network World offers some tips on what not to do when migrating to the cloud to avoid disasters—or, at the very least, grumbling users. They recommend splitting apps into…Continue reading
IT Jobs of the Future
January 20, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
This week, Packet Pushers has some excellent guidance around avoiding short-term networking fixes for application issues—or, as they call them, “stupid network tricks.” The way to avoid those tricks, they say, is to get ahead of the problem by involving IT at the outset of every project. Instead of IT being a place to put…Continue reading
