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SaaS Accelerator Configuration Walkthrough

Today’s work environment is certainly not what anyone had anticipated it would be at the beginning of this year. Today, most of the world is forced to work from home (WFH) unless d…

Does Your SD-WAN Pass the Enterprise-Grade Litmus Test?

Are all enterprise SD-WAN solutions created equal? Although a rhetorical question, the answer is a definitive, “No.” That begs the question … “What makes one SD-WAN different from …

Onboarding SteelConnect EX Branches with a Staging Script

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGajxUImvM[/embedyt] After you’ve deployed a SteelConnect EX SD-WAN headend, common next steps are to onboard branches to the headend, pl…

Enterprise-Grade SD-WAN: SteelConnect EX Advanced Routing Capabilities

Advanced network routing is one of the most powerful features of Riverbed’s enterprise-grade SD-WAN solution SteelConnect EX – definitely one of my favorites. While other vendors t…

Riverbed Introduces LTE/Wi-Fi Enabled Enterprise SD-WAN

The Application Acceleration portfolio has expanded its power and flexibility with the addition of three new enterprise SD-WAN appliances: EX-385, EX-485, and EX-685. Ideal for Int…

15 Surprising Stats on the Shift to Remote Work due to COVID-19

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, “work from home” has rapidly escalated from one of many remote work options to “the remote work option.” For IT professionals, this means enab…

The Golden Age of Spear Phishing

I get it, everybody is working from home, and it is changing things on the network. The limits of VPNs have been pushed, stretched, and exceeded. Video conferencing systems have sh…

The Key to Telework Productivity: Accelerated Network and Application Performance

As the world adjusts to our new normal, we find ourselves at a crossroads with complications and difficulties never faced before. As government agencies pivot their workforces to m…

Your Workforce is Working at Home. What Now?

Organizations around the world are grappling with exactly how to slow the spread of COVID-19. As they implement stringent measures designed to combat the virus and protect citizens…

Using SD-WAN Templates for Simplicity, Scale, and Cost Effectiveness

Changing market dynamics require businesses to embrace digital transformation and to adopt new technologies that improve productivity and customer experience and reduce costs. Ente…

5 Ways to Reduce Hybrid Cloud Complexity

How can you manage multi-cloud complexity in today’s distributed environments? A common approach–using disparate cloud vendor tools–is often complex. Each vendor tool was designed …

Building an SD-WAN Headend

When working with SteelConnect EX an important concept to understand is that of a SD-WAN headend. You simply cannot operate a SteelConnect EX SD-WAN network without the headend. We…