CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its especially attractive as an alternative to MPLS, promising to do for wide-area backbones what the cloud did for compute, storage, and application development. The service also enables enterprises to migrate their SD-WAN fabrics to the cloud. Connectivity across this complex ecosystem needs to be resilient, secure and seamless.

Enterprise 236

Enterprise Enterprise Network Data Center 236

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2023

Cloud technology is a springboard for digital transformation, delivering the business agility and simplicity that are so important to today’s business. In fact, in a recent IDC study , 60% of CIOs stated they are already planning to modify their operating model to manage value, agility, and risk by 2026.

Agile 278

Agile Cloud Network Applications 278

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Our acquisitions left us with a fragmented network comprising several WANs and dozens of VPN solutions, making management, monitoring, and policy implementation extremely challenging. It also provided granular access controls, enabling us to define application and data accessibility parameters.

WAN 397

WAN Network Policies Security 397

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

The tech industry quickly realized that AIs success actually depended not on software applications, but on the infrastructure powering it all specifically semiconductor chips and data centers. Enterprises that lack an agile, intelligent network will struggle to compete. Suddenly, infrastructure appears to be king again. on average.

Network 195

Network WAN Industry Applications 195

Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Many of the categories and terms in this years Best of Networking (BENNY) technology awards didnt even exist a decade ago: secure access service edge (SASE), SD-WAN, networking as a service (NaaS), and network detection and response (NDR).

Network 397

Network Enterprise Enterprise WAN 397

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

By decoupling physical locations from traditional office networkssuch as those reliant on firewalls or virtual private networks (VPNs)organizations gained an opportunity to adopt more agile configurations like caf-like branches. But SD-WAN created a new problem: security.

WAN 173

WAN Architecture Network Security 173

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2023

By Serge Lucio, Vice President and General Manager, Agile Operations Division This is a continuation of Broadcom’s blog series: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT. Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center.

Network 264

Network WAN Data Center Enterprise 264

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

For retail security teams, the network perimeter continues to transform as data and applications move to the cloud, more devices and merchandise are connected in-store, and users are working from outside headquarters and branch locations. WiFi and SD-WAN for flexible and enhanced connectivity.

Retail 246

Retail Security WAN Network 246

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Leaders see the cloud as a path to modernize their IT infrastructure, so they can achieve greater flexibility and agility, lower costs of operations, faster time to market, and heightened competitive advantage — just to name a few. More agility. However, for each of these major benefits, there’s also an inherent set of obstacles.

Cloud 299

Cloud WAN Network Agile 299

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SASE supports multiple secure access use cases—such as private applications, cloud applications, and SaaS applications—with flexible connectivity options across any user, branch, campus, microbranch location. 3 Why the trough of disillusionment?

WAN 334

WAN Network Security Cloud 334

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

Many of comdivision’s customers view technology as a way to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving global economy—to lead in their respective industries by gaining greater operational speed and agility. Sandfort reports that the customer saw benefits from the SD-WAN almost immediately. “We

Cloud 246

Cloud Vmware WAN Data Center 246

Network World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Over the past few years most organizations have significantly increased their reliance on the Internet, primarily due to the outsourcing of utility applications like email, unified communications, ERP, CRM, etc. to SaaS providers. This is due to the fact that direct access at every branch introduces compliance issues.

WAN 150

WAN Unified Communications Cloud Security 150

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. This role requires the ability to build web and mobile applications with a focus on user experience, functionality, and usability.

Devops 358

Devops How To Engineering Systems Administration 358

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2023

1] As the cloud continues to play a key role in building resilience and enabling agility, the role of the network is more critical than ever before. Unsurprisingly, more than half of enterprise IT spending in key market segments will shift to the cloud by 2025, according to Gartner. [1] without a modern network to support it.

Network 242

Network Cloud How To WAN 242

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Some IT leaders are finding great success with cloud migration and hybrid cloud strategies by leveraging both for agile outcomes and back-office transformation, resulting in organizational strengthening. Four years ago, 80% of our workload was on-premises. Now, about 30% is on-premises.

WAN 242

WAN Cloud Agile Network 242

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership. It’s a role that focuses on the deployment of automated applications, maintenance of IT and cloud infrastructure, and identifying the potential risks and benefits of new software and systems.

Cloud 325

Cloud Company Devops Disaster Recovery 325

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

“It’s about optimizing the cloud workload, rewriting some of the applications, and, [as] ESG comes into the big picture, how we can be more efficient to reduce Co2 emissions.” Finetuning for agility For Cathay, security is a key concern, but cybersecurity can be a roadblock to agility if not designed effectively, Nair points out.

Cloud 298

Cloud Airlines Network Security 298

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The emergence of new age technologies like AI, Gen AI, SD- WAN is pushing the technology companies to evolve rapidly, creating technology that not only keeps pace with development but also enhances it. A primary technology driving this evolution is the network industry, the substrate on which global organizations function seamlessly.

Network 298

Network Wireless WAN Industry 298

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2023

With users and applications becoming increasingly distributed, the prospect of delivering Zero Trust Security services via the cloud has propelled the concept of SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architectures to similarly buzzworthy heights. This approach can lead to brittle systems and reduced agility. See you there.

Trends 246

Trends Firewall WAN Network 246

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2022

Earning even one VMware Master Services Competency is difficult – comdivision earned Master Service Competencies in Cloud Management and Automation, Cloud-Native Apps, Data Center Virtualization, Digital Workspace, Network Virtualization, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Foundation, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network, (SD-WAN).

Vmware 246

Vmware Cloud Data Center WAN 246

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Remote offices can benefit from a private cloud environment where a central data center delivers applications, workloads and even desktops to remote users and branch offices. Only a few machines or key servers as well as possible a WAN optimizer would reside at the remote office. There are many ways to deploy a solid cloud model.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

The tech team is extremely agile.” All Tractor Supply stores already had SD-WAN networks and 5G broadband service available, and security cameras were IP enabled, enabling them to link into the Computer Vision capabilities. “Our philosophy in general is, ‘Let’s be nimble,’” Mills says.

Retail 290

Retail Knowledge Base Artificial Intelligence WAN 290

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

However, the supply chain issue could be viewed as a minor blip compared to the more fundamental problem that Cisco faces: Networking, the source of the majority of Cisco’s revenue, is no longer a high-growth market and agile new competitors are nibbling away at Cisco’s market share. And Cisco is bringing new products to market.

Data Center 432

Data Center Network Security LAN 432

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). 3) The dynamic nature of an organization’s applications and workloads. 5) The organization’s need for agility, flexibility and scalability within the network.

Data Center 207

Data Center Network Software Software 207

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

“By architecting a cloud platform to be able to protect users no matter where they work, it’s possible to deliver that new way of working – but the challenge is ensuring a secure environment for staff to easily and safely access their applications no matter where they work.” Balmer provides an example of a doctor and their iPad.

Load Balancer 130

Load Balancer Security Network Resources 130

TM Forum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To date, communications service providers’ (CSPs’) implementations of network-as-a-service (NaaS) have focused on increasing efficiency and agility in business and operations while improving business customers’ service experience. Early examples focus on SD-WAN. TELUS eyes nearly $1 billion in new revenue.

Network 130

Network WAN Enterprise Enterprise 130

TM Forum

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Yet no killer B2B application has emerged to give CSPs immediate and sustained business growth. The industry idiom of increased agility and flexibility can be translated as the need to quickly and easily be able to pivot from the core service model of providing communications packages to also providing other adjacent products and services.

B2B 130

B2B Automotive Healthcare Industry 130

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The cloud has become the hub for delivery of digital applications in the modern digital era. Network observability Whereas hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures serve as the hub for application and service delivery in the modern digital universe, the modern network is the delivery channel.

Trends 111

Trends Network Architecture Enterprise 111

Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Accomplishing all of these tasks requires a competent and experienced enterprise network management team that can ensure efficient connections and improved network agility. These two attributes are essential to attaining the twin organizational goals of reduced cost and reduced complexity.

Network 90

Network Enterprise Enterprise WAN 90

Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Application assurance : Incorporating SD-WAN overlays and network slicing capabilities. These payloads extend the framework to support various services including carrier ethernet, IP services, wavelength services, SD-WAN, and wireless applications. Our SASE cert complies with three things: SD-WAN, SSE and Zero Trust.

Network 418

Network WAN Security Transportation 418