Latency & Firewall
Industry climate plays an integral role in dictating some of the largest challenges in the IT & telecommunications industry. Often centralized firewalls & backhauling create latency issues even across #WAN links that have substantial bandwidth, which leads to an unpredictable [...]
SD-WAN as-a-Service Taps the Full Power of the Cloud
Moving apps to the cloud is smart, but doing it with a traditional network architecture and complex jumble of hardware devices can ruin the benefits you're trying to achieve. Cloud apps travel long distances, which [...]
DIY or Managed SD-WAN? A Recent Survey Reveals a Clear Picture
SD-WAN is a transformative technology that has seen rapid adoption by enterprises of all sizes and within diverse industries. The numerous benefits and advantages over traditional networks have been proven, from lowering costs and saving [...]
Key Elements Required Beyond Technology for Effective Cybersecurity
Security should hit every touch-point of your business. Beyond firewalls, antivirus, encryption and authentication technologies, there are critical security elements that should be implemented by every business, many of which have nothing to do with [...]
Virtualizing Networking and Security, With Seamless Orchestration
Virtualization is becoming an increasingly powerful IT solution for combining multiple, dissimilar network and security functions into a single platform and architecture that is easily consumed and software-defined. From the IT perspective within the data [...]
The Software-defined Revolution is Transforming IT: Why You Won’t Succeed Without It
Network services are somewhat new to WANs, as hardware-based appliances represent traditional WAN architecture. These appliances include routers, switches, firewalls, WAN optimizers, load balancers, proxy servers and other single-function devices. For decades, enterprises were [...]
Considering SD-WAN Without a Security Assessment? Big Misstep, Here’s Why…
The title of this blog comes from an article that was written by Matt Hiles, and published last week in Telecom Ramblings. The article discusses SD-WAN, and the need to have comprehensive security for branch [...]