CIO

JULY 11, 2022

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024. Key considerations.

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Arista

MARCH 21, 2023

The evolution of WAN architectures has historically paralleled that of application architectures. When we primarily connected terminals to mainframes, the WAN architecture was largely point-to-point links connecting back to data center facilities.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 12, 2023

With businesses fully reopened and employees returning to branches, the need for hybrid work, cloud adoption and to better secure people, apps and devices are at the top of mind for all infrastructure leaders. More importantly, Prisma SD-WAN provides connections to the closest Prisma Access nodes to deliver an exceptional user experience.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These OT-specific workflow capabilities ensure secure, seamless access to IT, OT and cloud applications for your distributed workforce across employees and partners. Centralized management through Strata Cloud Manager further enhances operational efficiency, delivering consistent, secure remote access across IT and OT environments.

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Why Next-Generation SD-WAN Is Critical to Avoid Failure in Mainstream Deployments. The SD-WAN market is at a critical inflection point. We are past the early adopters phase and mainstream enterprises are now looking to deploy SD-WAN. Legacy SD-WAN. Enabling “anywhere work” by extending SD-WAN benefits to teleworkers.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Experts reveal that by 2027, cloud adoption will be mainstream, with 90% of enterprises implementing some kind of cloud strategy. What’s key is that, in the process, the cloud won’t just be a technology disruptor — it will be a business disruptor. Cloud services can be accessed from pretty much anywhere there’s connectivity.

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today, I am honored to announce that Palo Alto Networks CloudGenix SD-WAN is recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Infrastructure Magic Quadrant (MQ). After all, earlier this year, CloudGenix was named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAN Edge Infrastructure.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 11, 2021

Industry-leading automotive retailer, AutoNation, realized their current wide area network (WAN) architecture was complex, slow, and often unreliable as MPLS has failed to meet their performance demands – even after moving from T1 to higher-bandwidth fiber connections.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2022

The WAN architecture must cater to the needs of office and remote workers with parity in terms of routing policies, security profile, and management of the WAN.” . “COVID-19 has accelerated a trend toward a massively distributed enterprise moving network functionality to the edge of the network,” IDC analysts advise.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2021

I'm excited to share the news that Palo Alto Networks has been recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant WAN Edge Infrastructure ! We believe this is a testament to our vision of offering a next-generation SD-WAN solution that is application-defined, autonomous and cloud-delivered. As part of the Prisma SD-WAN 5.6

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Building a robust IT infrastructure that is easy to manage can be challenging and expensive with a legacy WAN architecture. Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN enabled SA Recycling to build robust, agile and secure networking, delivering uninterrupted connectivity while reducing trouble tickets by 97% for a digital transformation.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2023

For many organizations large and small, the COVID-19 pandemic was the tipping point for cloud adoption. Unsurprisingly, more than half of enterprise IT spending in key market segments will shift to the cloud by 2025, according to Gartner. [1] However, the transformative benefits of cloud cannot be realized (or may even be negated!)

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

Cloud and edge computing. The shift to the public cloud from private data centers has been swift and sweeping, and cloud-based applications are the new standard. In fact, 85% of enterprises will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

This rapid adoption of new technologies brings with it an increase in the complexity of network design and security architecture for IT teams. WiFi and SD-WAN for flexible and enhanced connectivity. SD-WAN also provides the agility to add more bandwidth to help improve application and system performance.

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Perficient

MARCH 27, 2023

In this blog series, we’re exploring the four pillars of a successful Cloud Transformation: Program Model, Cloud Foundations, Portfolio Transformation, and Enterprise App Migration. In this second segment, we’ll review the important “get right” technical elements of cloud adoption, which we refer to as “Cloud Foundations.”

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.” billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2023

These changes are being driven by growing SaaS adoption, increasing workload migration to the cloud, and the need to support the expanding number of employees who work-from-anywhere. Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

The increased adoption of cloud computing also poses inherent challenges. All these variables force the need for organizations to transform their security postures to protect against cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities. Securing the shift to the cloud. For this reason, the zero trust approach must be considered.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2023

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. These candidates should have experience debugging cloud stacks, securing apps in the cloud, and creating cloud-based solutions.

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

SD-WAN, one of the most disruptive network technologies of the past few years, has a fast rate of adoption. Enterprises adopting SD-WAN are driven by key factors such as WAN cost savings, application performance improvement, management and operation simplification, and more. SD-WAN Visibility from Kentik.

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CIO

MAY 23, 2023

Today, convergence is happening with SASE, which converges cloud-delivered security and networking, as well as Secure SD-WAN, zero trust network access (ZTNA), network access control (NAC), secure access points, and secure switches.

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The Crazy Programmer

JUNE 17, 2022

By completing CCNA we can enhance our knowledge about networking skills, and gain the ability to create, manage and control networking devices and architecture, including software and hardware. The CCNP certification is for those who wanted to gain deep knowledge so that they can create network architecture. Types of CCNA.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

According to Gartner, which coined the term, SASE combines network security with WAN capabilities , and can encompass multiple components such as SD-WAN, secure web gateways, cloud access security broker functions, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) in a cloud-native delivery model.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

By Koroush Saraf, VP, Product Management for SD-WAN. Applications moving to the cloud and increased user mobility are changing the way networking and network security services must be delivered. We live in an age of cloud and digital transformation. Cloud Access Needs Security That Is Simple.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 9, 2019

Additionally, we’ll look at how artificial intelligence is itself becoming embedded in SD-WAN solutions as industry leaders and government-backed researchers look to further refine important large-scale IT networks. What is SD-WAN technology. The key advantage of SD-WAN is the separation between the routing plane and the control plane.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 27, 2025

Secure access service edge (SASE) is a cloud-based network architecture that combines network and security services into a single framework. It integrates technologies like SD-WAN, cloud access security brokers (CASB), secure web gateways (SWG), Zero Trust network access (ZTNA), and firewall as a service (FWaaS).

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 26, 2021

Organizations are moving in full force to adopt the cloud with multicloud availability at the core of their digital transformation. As a result, traditional wide area network (WAN) architectures have become a major bottleneck as they fail to enable direct access to cloud applications. Multicloud and SD-WAN.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 2, 2023

Our customers are excited about the cloud for the agility, flexibility and scalability it provides. But, when it comes to keeping their cloud deployments secure, they often tell us they find it hard to combine superior security and easy management with the ability to secure applications consistently across hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 24, 2023

An increase in cloud and SaaS applications for collaboration and productivity has led 95% of organizations to use public cloud services with plans to move almost 50% of business-critical applications to the cloud in the next 36 months. Prisma SD-WAN is natively integrated with Prisma Access for a unified SASE solution.

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Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

Most of the history of network operations has been supported by monitoring tools, mostly standalone, closed systems, seeing one or a couple of network element and telemetry types, and generally on-prem and one- or few-node, without modern, open-data architectures. API gateways for digital services. Wireless access points and controller.

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Megaport

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an industry driven by SD-WAN, there are three common ways to connect your branch locations to the cloud. Many enterprises are executing a strategy of cloud migration first, followed by application modernization – including SD-WAN. We break down the benefits and limitations of each.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Today, the phrase “cloud migration” means a lot more than it used to – gone are the days of the simple lift and shift. To that end, we’re excited to announce major updates to Kentik Cloud that will make your teams more efficient (and happier) in multi-cloud.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cloud services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and on-premises infrastructures connected by wired and wireless networks now represent the backbone of modern enterprises. To fully harness the benefits of modern network architectures, network operations teams need a deep understanding of how these systems perform.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2023

With users and applications becoming increasingly distributed, the prospect of delivering Zero Trust Security services via the cloud has propelled the concept of SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architectures to similarly buzzworthy heights. In the coming months (and years!), See you there. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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