In the 90s, companies that had difficulty establishing a Wide Area Network due to a lack of resources dramatically benefited from Virtual Private Networks or VPNs. VPN connected remote gateways in a cost-efficient manner, becoming a corporate staple for WAN architectures for many years. After then SD-WAN emerges to be…
Commercial software-as-a-service (SaaS) application suites like Office 365 are already some of the most widely deployed SaaS applications, and adoption by enterprises of all sizes continues to grow around the world. In a cloud-first enterprise, end users frequently need to access Office 365 from any location. Regardless of when and…
According to a recent Uptime Institute report, network failures trail only power outages as a cause of downtime. The data also suggests that full "2N" redundancy is an excellent way to mitigate the risk of downtime. Most companies feel secure with MPLS deployment to manage redundancy and network performance. But the…
With organization processes and applications becoming increasingly cloud-centric, SD-WAN or Software-Defined WAN is the key to the future of networking. A study of IT decision-makers performed for software-defined networking company Masergy by Altman Solon found that 79% of businesses are currently using some form of SD-WAN, and by 2026 that…
Legacy network solutions are not properly outfitted for security issues of the current IT landscape. For enterprises with multiple branch offices, security concerns are magnified since new branches mean additional devices and networks to configure. The IT sprawl makes the system more complex, which also increases the likelihood of a…
Mid-size businesses often require a level of access and control that private networking can provide. However, the cost of such a network setup might be too high to justify. Secondly, small and large businesses take on cloud applications as a core element to their business operations. Increased cloud connectivity along with…