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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…

SD-WAN Data Center Integration

We continue our learning journey on Application Acceleration, Riverbed’s Enterprise SD-WAN offering. This time, we are going to address one of the hottest and most complex topics w…

Five Must-Haves for Unified Network Performance Management (NPM)

We’re all used to the back and forth: integrated platform or standalone, best-of-breed? “Tools that can correlated multiple classes of network data are more effective in all NPM (n…

Six Blind Men and the Elephant

I was recently reminded of the story of the blind men and the elephant when I read the statistic that 67% of enterprises have 3-6 network performance management (NPM) tools install…

The Unpredictability of Office 365 Performance in a Work-from-Home Culture

I often talk about modern workforces and how we have evolved from the 9 to 5 culture of going to work at some office or branch, and 8-hours later we come home. Sort of funny to eve…

24×7 Enterprise Apps: Office 365 on Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Home Offices Part 2

How would you feel about 150% faster time to revenue? If you read Part 1 of this story, you know that my personal experience and observations in the first few weeks of having River…

SteelConnect EX SD-WAN Architecture Overview

The holiday season is just over and while I was looking at my kids taking apart their brand new toys—and telling them they probably should not, I remembered that I was actually the…

Portal: Central Management Now “Free” to AppResponse Customers

With the latest release of Portal version 3.3, central management workflows such as managing Host Groups and application definitions are now available to all AppResponse customers …

24×7 Enterprise Apps: Office 365 Performance on Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Home Offices, Part 1

I was standing on a stage in front of an audience of sellers last week sharing a personal experience I recently had using some of Riverbed’s modern application performance technolo…

Increasing Visibility Into Network and Application Performance is Key to Driving Business Innovation

There is an indisputable correlation between having effective technology in place and company health. So much so, that seven in ten C-Suite decision makers (70%) believe business i…

Protecting End Users in an SD-WAN World

When it comes to an SD-WAN deployment we tend to spend a lot of time thinking about connectivity, reachability, protocols, traffic steering and so on. One area that we sometimes ov…

Are You Digitally Competent?

The role of digital competence in digital transformation Everybody talks about digital transformation, but how can you be sure it’s working for your company? In other words, how do…