Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has solved many of the problems that tend to emerge with a cloud environment, such as managing the cost of higher bandwidth demands and improved visibility into the network. Changes at the branch level require enterprises to take things a step further and invest in the software-defined branch (SD-branch), which simplifies management and improves the security at each location. The need for SD-branch is partly due to the increased number of … [Read more...]
Digital Transformation and Secure Systems
Organizations face a number of challenges with regard to digital transformation, many of them related to managing massive volumes of data while trying to stay clear of cybercriminals. Threats have become more complex, forcing businesses to look deeper into how they can protect themselves. It’s been almost 25 years since the development of the first network security solution. These early solutions focused mainly on network connections. The use of firewalls played heavily into controlling who … [Read more...]
Edge Computing Offers Network Management Solutions for the IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) era introduces new network management challenges, such as increases in data volume and flow and latency as data travels over long distances. For many organizations, edge computing provides the answer to both eliminating latency and streamlining the data storage and processing component of interacting with devices. Here’s your primer on edge computing and what it’s doing for network management: What edge computing does: Edge computing consists of a mesh of micro … [Read more...]
Digital Solutions Can Improve Efficiencies
In this climate of globalization, companies need every advantage in order to remain competitive -- which means digital solutions are paramount to success. Given the rate at which companies are sold, downsize, or go under, it is important to look at whether they had the digital solutions necessary to make the grade. Kauffman Foundation and Inc. Magazine found that almost 66 percent of businesses that had been on the magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies had downsized or been … [Read more...]