Security-Focused Shift to SD-WAN Threatens DC Supremacy
Enterprise adoption of the Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) architecture opens up significant improvements from an operations, cost, and flexibility perspective. But it’s a big forklift...
View ArticleThe Global Continuity Network
Business continuity is the new Holy Grail. Where once people used to look to ‘rapid’ backup and restore capabilities to recover from a disaster, this is no longer good enough in many cases. Backup...
View ArticleLessons Learned From a Cloud Migration
It’s hard to go anywhere today and not be inundated with the cloud. I see billboards on highway 101 between San Jose and San Francisco, there are cloud signs in airports, and it seems every TV show has...
View ArticleBusiness Continuity Can Help Sell Your SD-WAN Plans
Prior to being an analyst, I spent many years as a network engineer. During this time I realized how hard it was to get the attention of CIOs and other IT leaders. Most CIOs have application...
View ArticleKingston Curbs Reliance on MPLS with SD-WAN
Connecting multiple remote offices to applications that are hosted hundreds or even thousands of miles away is a common scenario for any global enterprise. But when distance between the sites...
View ArticleReplication Acceleration Is Now Business Critical
EMC World was held last week in Las Vegas, and as EMC has grown in size so has their annual event until it has become the key storage event in the industry. The theme of this year’s event was...
View ArticleSD-WAN Can Make Disaster Recovery Planning Easier
Disaster recovery is certainly an interesting topic. Prior to my analyst days, I was in corporate IT and was part of a number of disaster recovery (DR) teams. It’s my sense that most organizations are...
View ArticleDon’t Just Monitor Your Applications – Control Them!
How’s Your Productivity? Businesses spend billions of dollars annually on initiatives to make workers more productive. In fact, ZK Research found that in 2015, organizations spent in aggregate over $12...
View ArticleAnother New Year’s Resolution for Network Managers: I Will Embrace Virtual...
In my blog near the beginning of the year, I urged network managers to make a resolution to not stick with the status quo when it comes to evaluating and selecting an SD-WAN solution provider, as it...
View ArticleHow Can an SD-WAN Solution Improve Network Performance?
The 2016 State of the WAN report contained the results of a survey in which the respondents were asked to indicate the factors that were having the biggest impact on their WAN. Given that unlike the...
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