Tag: sd-wan

August 23, 2023

In this first of a three-part blog series on SD-WAN, SSE, and multi-cloud networking (MCN), where we will highlight how these three technology areas are analogous to three different musical instruments that can be played separately. However, when these three […]

June 12, 2023

OK, it’s not been a great first half for many companies, from end users to vendors and providers. The good news is that users sort of believe that many of the economic and political issues that have contributed to the […]

May 9, 2023

At the start of a new year, it’s often time for life-changing decisions. Some that are fun, like vowing to take more time off from work, and some that can make the fun decision come true. Like, looking for ways […]

April 26, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital world, companies need a robust and flexible network infrastructure to support their rapidly growing and changing business requirements. As a result, many organizations are turning to Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) technology to address the challenges […]

March 15, 2023

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are making it faster, easier, and more affordable for businesses to securely connect offices and remote users to the applications and information they need to get work done. Today’s […]

May 8, 2020

Traditional WAN architectures are under major pressure driven by the migration of services and data to multi-cloud environments, the need for direct connectivity to those resources from branch offices, and the growing reliance on bandwidth-hungry business applications. As a result, […]

April 14, 2020

As businesses around the world continue an unprecedented migration to a work-from-home strategy, the underlying technology and infrastructure supporting this transition face extraordinary challenges. In a recent blog post, we shared a work-from-anywhere reference architecture designed to enable IT organizations […]

February 18, 2020

When SD-WAN was introduced, it was widely seen as an MPLS alternative. Today just about any credible, Internet-based SD-WAN solution can be used to replace a regional MPLS network. The bigger question is what happens the day after you networked […]

January 29, 2020

When we gaze at the crowded eye-chart of technologies commonly associated with digital transformation, few of the markets we follow have been frothier over the last two years than SD-WAN and cybersecurity. The rate of change is remarkable by any […]

May 8, 2017

Unlike the software-defined network (SDN) — which is like network virtualization on steroids, but primarily datacenter-based — the software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) is essentially application routing capabilities for WANs, primarily everywhere but the data center. And it is getting a […]

April 12, 2017

Fortinet has rolled out a new version of its FortiOS operating system that gives customers the ability to manage security capabilities across their cloud assets and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) environments. With FortiOS 5.6, the company’s Fortinet Security Fabric […]