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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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Just Released and Ready for Download — Software Firewalls for Dummies

Palo Alto Networks

If you want to protect applications and workloads throughout today’s complex and interrelated environments, you need software firewalls. You can better understand the extensive need and numerous use cases for virtual firewalls, container firewalls and managed cloud firewalls with our essential guide, “ Software Firewalls for Dummies.”

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

Overcoming growing pains Most organizations are built with hub-and-spoke networks connecting their locations to centralized data centers. They tend to utilize a castle-and-moat security strategy focused on the network perimeter. More and more of our applications are outside our data centers. And it worked.

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Need for Speed Drives Security-as-a-Service

CIO

In fact, 42% of SECaaS adopters in F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy survey cited speed as the main driver. Organizations are using SECaaS for specific security functions such as web application firewall (WAF), web application and API protection (WAAP), distributed denial of service protection (DDoS) and API protection.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center. Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO

Cloud networking comprises three layers: first from on-premises data centers to the cloud, then within a cloud that has multiple accounts or virtual private clouds, and finally, between individual clouds in a multicloud environment. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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Broadcom Pinnacle Partners: Guiding enterprises throughout their cloud journeys

CIO

This fall, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware brought together two engineering and innovation powerhouses with a long track record of creating innovations that radically advanced physical and software-defined data centers. As a result, even the most sophisticated and powerful cloud environment is radically easier to manage and optimize.