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Is SD-WAN sill relevant in today’s technology landscape?

Network World

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) emerged in 2014 as a way to help organizations embrace the cloud and quickly became a hot commodity. As years passed new technologies like secure access service edge (SASE) and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) burst onto the scene, and SD-WAN has fallen out of the industry limelight.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, convergence is happening with SASE, which converges cloud-delivered security and networking, as well as Secure SD-WAN, zero trust network access (ZTNA), network access control (NAC), secure access points, and secure switches. We predict that the convergence of networking and security will continue to expand to more areas.

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What’s next for network operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center. More importantly, WANs lack the flexibility and scalability that digital business requires. More importantly, WANs lack the flexibility and scalability that digital business requires.

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Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

Network World

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN. The IDC report, Enterprise Resilience: IT Skilling Strategies, 2024 , reveals the most in-demand skills at enterprise organizations right now.

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