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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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HPE-Juniper merger faces antitrust inquiry in UK

Network World

Much like when HPE bought Nimble and then quickly dispersed the talent into 3Par and their other storage product teams, Juniper has a compelling artificial intelligence enhanced operations strategy.” However, both firms have a wider portfolio that spans the network security and SASE/SD-WAN technology landscape.”

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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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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.