Understanding the Obstacles to WAN Transformation — Security, Performance, and TCO
Network engineering and operations leaders are looking to software-defined wide- area networks (SD-WAN) to support the influx of traffic and applications driven by digital transformation (DX). These applications improve staff productivity while creating new business opportunities, but they also reshape corporate networking and security needs.
In response, many organizations are beginning to rethink their traditional WAN architecture. SD WAN has emerged as a replacement, but many SD-WAN implementations also present serious challenges—from inadequate security to high total cost of ownership (TCO). Understanding these issues is key to navigating the increasingly complex market for WAN edge technologies.
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As security architects consider how to provide comprehensive threat protection for their enterprises, including firewalling, intrusion prevention, antivirus, secure sockets layer (SSL) inspection, and application control, they face a confusing array of feature sets and vendor claims. It becomes even more difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons when vendors don’t publish complete specifications or standards-based performance metrics. Amid the pressing need to thwart increasing SSL-based attacks without hampering the pace of business, secu ...
A Multi-cloud IT Infrastructure Demands 3 Key Requirements from Networking and Security
More than 90 percent of enterprises are adopting a multi-cloud strategy, and as they expand across multiple Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers, their networking and security architectures must evolve. Specifically, enterprises are seeking a simplified and consistent way to connect their applications and workloads, improve the application experience for their users, streamline operations and costs with automation, increase their visibility into traffic patterns, and effectively apply consistent controls to reduce cybersecurity ri ...
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Cloud adoption is becoming an increasingly large part of CIO budgets, to the point where some enterprise organizations are using many different cloud environments to build their IT infrastructure. A multi-cloud model involves the custom selection of multiple cloud services to serve specific functions. Enterprises today have almost entirely embraced multi-cloud for its flexibility—93% currently have a multi-cloud strategy in place. However, connecting workloads on multiple clouds at the data-center WAN edge creates several challenges, including ...
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