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Enterprise SD-WAN Trade-Offs Part 4: User Experience vs. Security

Is it possible to meet user expectations and maintain SD-WAN security? One benefit of SD-WAN is that it makes it easy to steer certain traffic from remote sites toward your on-prem…

Accelerating Digital Transformation: The Race for Relevance

As established in Blog 1 of this series, three critical CEO priorities have emerged as a result of the pandemic. At the top of that list is accelerating digital transformation. It’…

Enterprise SD-WAN Trade-Offs Part 3: Cost vs. Performance

SD-WAN makes it easy to incorporate less-costly bandwidth options like Internet Broadband and LTE at remote locations. What are the performance-related SD-WAN trade-offs to conside…

Enterprise SD-WAN Trade-Offs Part 2: the Destination vs. the Journey

Preface: COVID-19 delays SD-WAN deployments in 2020 In between the first draft of this Enterprise SD-WAN Trade-Offs blog series and the present, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, and …

3 Critical CEO Priorities Driving Post-COVID Growth

2020 was a year of great change and uncertainty for our customers and indeed, the entire world. Seemingly overnight, organizations have had to quickly pivot to deal with the challe…

Synthetic Monitoring: A Key Tool for Hybrid Enterprises

While the benefits of cloud infrastructure and applications continue to drive enterprises to direct more of their IT investments in that direction, the cloud is certainly not a pan…

5 Key Benefits of Synthetic Monitoring for Modern Apps

Before we get into the benefits of synthetic monitoring, let’s start by defining it. Synthetic monitoring is a method used to monitor applications by simulating users. It’s differe…

C-Level Perspectives: Preparing for the Office of the Future

I think it’s safe to say that nearly every organization in the world is currently thinking about workplace transformation. And, it’s not just about redesigning office space. The CO…

SD-WAN or WAN Optimization?

SD-WAN or WAN Optimization? I love that question. And, in order to answer it correctly, let me first dispel a common misperception. The question assumes SD-WAN and WAN Optimization…

Webinar: Microsoft and Riverbed on Work-From-Anywhere Challenges and Exciting New Cloud Innovations

Are you using collaboration apps, joining video events and streaming more video? Of course you are — we all are! With the onset of COVID-19, businesses responded almost immediately…

The Next Norm: Improving Network Resiliency and Security to Support Work-From-Anywhere (Part 4)

In Part 1 of this blog series, The Next Norm: Prepare to Work-from-Anywhere, we looked at the recent, explosive growth in work from home and the transition to the new norm, work fr…

Future of Work Survey: How Companies Are Planning for a ‘Work from Anywhere’ World

As the “new normal” becomes just normal, companies are preparing for a large-scale, long-term shift to remote work, where increasingly employees will ‘work from anywhere.’ Although…