A collection of 28 posts
Network infrastructure is the foundation for business efficiency and growth, yet traditional WAN architectures can no longer keep up with modern demands. Luckily, SD-WAN has emerged as a game-changing technology that helps organizations obtain the agile, high-performing, and secure network needed to stay competitive. Are you ready to maximize efficiency
Cyber crime is a big business. It’s an industry that will cost the world an estimated $8 trillion in 2023. Being proactive about cyber hygiene will help prevent you from adding to cyber criminals’ coffers. The “2022 Official Cybercrime Report” outlines the risks organizations face this year with the
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses were already pursuing digital solutions to their most pressing business challenges. The ability to provide an excellent customer experience and optimize productivity had many opting for cloud migration when there was an opportunity for an upgrade. But these widespread changes are coming with technology challenges.
For any company considering a move to virtualized networking, the pandemic provided the right motivation for the migration to software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). With workers and teams no longer centralized, the ability of SD-WAN to offer connectivity to corporate resources from a geographically dispersed workforce made it possible for
The quick transition companies made to remote work in the early days of the pandemic has accelerated many digital transformation plans. But in cyber security and networking, there has been a tendency to equate work-from-anywhere with home office environments. These two are not the same; rather, home office is a
Today’s enterprise is increasingly utilizing cloud solutions to improve productivity and optimize the customer experience. These solutions not only demand high levels of bandwidth, but they are also particularly sensitive to latency, jitter, and dropped packets. At the branch level, these problems can be more daunting because a traditional
When applications were located in house, it made perfect sense to bring each transmission from a branch through the data center; but as more businesses adopt multi-cloud environments, the traditional WAN no longer makes sense. Increasingly, businesses are choosing to implement software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). SD-WAN is, in many
As the new work-from-anywhere approach seems to be an increasingly permanent solution, IT teams are working to accommodate networking requirements. From segmenting and prioritizing network traffic to meeting the performance demands of cloud solutions, networking has become more complex and more critical to keeping business moving. When networking is inadequate,
While the shift to remote work was a swift reaction to a global pandemic, enterprises are embracing its benefits as a long-term solution that improves life-work balance for employees, offers cost savings, and drives up productivity. Now IT teams are examining remote work technology for better long-term solutions. When it
While 2020 introduced new challenges for enterprises, many found that some of the technology necessary for a remote-work environment was already in place. From cloud-based applications to solutions designed around remote collaboration, enterprises not already utilizing these tools were able to prioritize their adoption to enable business continuity. Much of
The shift to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud migration for some enterprises, but many still struggle to address challenges around network management, performance, and security. Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) answers many of the obstacles, offering built-in security features, centralized and automated bandwidth management, and traffic
When widespread shutdowns related to COVID-19 caused the majority of the workforce to work from home, the virtual private network (VPN) was the unsung technology hero. In place for telework, VPNs had a solid foundation for reliability and made remote work possible. As a temporary fix becomes a more permanent
In the last few months, the shift to working from home has increased an already pressing need for new WAN solutions, with software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) emerging as the clear solution for an increasingly complex networking environment. The early days of the WAN utilized it as a way to
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) implementations have long been favored by enterprises pursuing digital transformation strategies. The virtual overlay offers the ability to segment traffic, improves visibility, and prioritizes mission-critical transmissions, all while supporting the bandwidth-hungry demands of cloud solutions. Now, SD-WAN is being tapped as a way to support
At a current count, there’s over 85 different SD-WAN service providers! Which one of those 85 vendors is right for your business? I’m Max Clark, CEO of ITBroker.com and we’re going to talk about SD-WAN and why SD-WAN is so important for your business. First off,
Have you ever experienced lagging on a Zoom session or choppiness on a VoIP phone call? Bigleaf Networks was founded to solve site to cloud connectivity challenges. On today’s podcast, Max Clark talks with Bigleaf Network’s Vice President of Sales and Business Development about Cloud connectivity and Internet
Max Clark talks with Aryaka’s CTO and Co-founder, Ashwath Nagaraj about the actual impact of SD enterprises, how their product has evolved to support their customer’s needs, and the so-called “Achilles heel” of SD-WAN. Episode Transcript: INTRO: [00:00] Welcome to the Tech Deep Dive podcast, where we
In this episode of Tech Deep Dive, Max Clark talks with CloudGenix System Engineer Leader, Yash Bajpai, into the technical deployment and offers how CloudGenix differs from other products. CloudGenix is tracking the emit failures, transaction failures, the round-trip time from the user to the server, and also taking tangible
This episode of Tech Deep Dive was recorded shortly before the acquisition of CloudGenix by Palo Alto Networks. Max Clark talks to Ryan Williams, manager of Channel Sales at CloudGenix, about their approach to SD-WAN, and integrations with cloud-based security tools. Ryan talks about how time to innocence matters to
Enterprises are often inaccurate when estimating how their businesses will grow and anticipating how their network and other infrastructure will need to grow to support it. Scalability is a challenge for network professionals managing software-defined wide area networking, and it can be particularly difficult the broader the geographical dispersion of
The traditional hub-and-spoke model of networking associated with wide area networks (WAN) over the last few decades is being replaced by a virtualized network approach called software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). As companies are increasingly choosing cloud solutions to replace legacy, on-site systems, the need for a corresponding infrastructure upgrade
Businesses are increasingly adopting Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) to streamline communications and collaboration tools. UCaaS introduces single application access to video conferencing, shared workspaces, and a host of messaging and voice call features. In order to ensure a high level of connectivity and quality, enterprises are installing UCaaS
As contracts come up for renewal, enterprises are evaluating new communications technology and finding that unified communications as a service (UCaaS) provides the advantages necessary in terms of scalability and cost. It also offers unique features that encourage collaboration and faster decision-making, boosting overall productivity. When the solution is implemented
As the great cloud migration has demonstrated, many enterprises have found that no single strategy meets all of their technology needs. It’s common for an enterprise to invest in some public cloud solutions while also maintaining some on-premises systems and private cloud for some other workloads. A multi-cloud environment