CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. Enter SD-WAN: cheaper than MPLS and designed for cloud-first traffic patterns. Theyre exploding across locations with little thought for enterprise-grade security. Sounds promising, right?

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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). Read on to meet the winners and finalists, or download the PDF edition below.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

In an increasingly mobile and modern workforce, smart technologies such as AI-driven edge solutions and the Internet of Things (IoT) can help enterprises improve productivity and efficiencywhether to address operational roadblocks or respond faster to market demands.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the realm of Wide Area Networks (WANs), traditional routers have long been the backbone of network infrastructure, albeit with their limitations. However, a transformative technology known as Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is making significant waves in India and globally.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Over the past two decades, cloud computing has evolved from a method that utilized extra data center capacity to the mission-critical infrastructure across enterprises that we see today. The Cloud WAN service delivers three main capabilities to enterprises: automation, orchestration, and agility, which combine to reduce go-to-market times.”

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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.

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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. Enterprise networks are undergoing a profound transformation. More importantly, WANs lack the flexibility and scalability that digital business requires.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

Enterprises can no longer treat networks as just infrastructure. Enterprises that lack an agile, intelligent network will struggle to compete. Organizations must invest in SD-WAN, edge computing, and 5G to ensure AI applications operate seamlessly. on average.

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Network WAN Industry Applications 195

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

SASE is a framework that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and network security services like Cloud Access Security Brokers, Firewall-as-a-service, and Zero Trust into a single, cloud-delivered service model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Experts reveal that by 2027, cloud adoption will be mainstream, with 90% of enterprises implementing some kind of cloud strategy. More agility. Here are the top five capabilities to look for: High-scale, active testing that delivers end-to-end visibility, including beyond the edge of your enterprise network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

WiFi and SD-WAN for flexible and enhanced connectivity. Underpinning WiFi networks at disparate locations, meanwhile, SD-WAN is able to segment network traffic to prioritize and help protect critical applications. SD-WAN also provides the agility to add more bandwidth to help improve application and system performance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2023

Unsurprisingly, more than half of enterprise IT spending in key market segments will shift to the cloud by 2025, according to Gartner. [1] 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. 4] How can cloud-based network management help?

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Cloud-based applications provide IT organizations with an agile and cost effective means for expanding the range of services they provide and delivering new productivity tools requested by teams, departments or lines of business.

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WAN Unified Communications Cloud Security 150

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.

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WAN Cloud Agile Network 242

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.

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Network Wireless WAN Industry 298

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Many believe, me included, that SASE is the future of enterprise cybersecurity because it provides converged network and security capabilities. When deployed properly, a SASE offering like the one Fortinet provides, improves an organization’s network visibility, agility, performance, and security. What is SASE?

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WAN Network Security Cloud 334

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

Like many enterprises, Cathay Pacific relied heavily on a lift-and-shift approach in its initial phase to benefit from the immediate efficiencies and scalability of the cloud. At the same time, enterprises are increasingly pursuing zero-trust strategies. The cloud has helped us to be more scalable and agile.”

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Cloud Airlines Network Security 298

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Is this just a minor hiccup for the dominant player in enterprise networking or something else? AIOps: On the enterprise side, Cisco is integrating AI across its existing product lines in areas like AIOps. Stock price stuck in neutral while the rest of the market hits record highs. Shakeups in the C-suite.

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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).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

These IT pros typically have a bachelor’s degree in computer science and should be knowledgeable in LAN/WAN protocol, software, and hardware. Certifications to look for include the Docker Certified Associate (DCA), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, and Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Only a few machines or key servers as well as possible a WAN optimizer would reside at the remote office. We’re reducing the amount of hardware that we need, and increasing agility by using the cloud to replicate business processes. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Five Myths of Cloud Computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

The knowledge base offers information about land, animals, and other rural topics customers may ask about, even when the request isn’t about a product in the store, says Glenn Allison, vice president of IT enterprise architecture and IT solutions. The tech team is extremely agile.”

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It also describes the imperative for enterprises to redefine their network in order to operate in the modern data economy. With extended digital supply chains supported by business driven IoT technologies operating over a software defined networked environment, the digital economy is directly connected to the larger enterprise.

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Network Enterprise Enterprise WAN 90

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.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Many communications service providers (CSPs) believe that the opportunity for strong revenue growth lies in providing new services to large enterprises. Enterprise-article-Dean-placing-the-right-bets.png. But how do CSPs go about being highly competitive players in those complex new value chains? Building capabilities.

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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). An organization with fairly stable IT operations where systems agility is not a competitive differentiator might hold off on investing in SDN. Connect via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & RSS.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Identity as the digital perimeter and data protection are mission critical to foster digital trust, enable service assurance, and minimize enterprise risk. Thus, holistic convergence of network and security operations in this cloud centric digital era is paramount to assure cyber resilience and enterprise business continuity.

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Trends Network Architecture Enterprise 112

TM Forum

DECEMBER 20, 2021

– increasingly, operators are looking for ways to move away from the traditional reactive approach to customer care to being more proactive in sharing data assets, insights, troubles and other elements that enterprise CIOs want at their fingertips without having calling up and ask for it. Automated service assurance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

SASE takes security best practices, software-defined networking (SD-WAN), and a host of other technologies and brings them together in a nuanced way that delivers quality and cohesive connectivity to the furthest reaches of the network’s edge.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It’s really a cloud-like offering, cloud experience offering, from the providers to the enterprises to be able to consume networks as a service model.” Application assurance : Incorporating SD-WAN overlays and network slicing capabilities. Our SASE cert complies with three things: SD-WAN, SSE and Zero Trust.

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Network WAN Security Transportation 418

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2025

Mist required the exact opposite: a more bundled package sale to the enterprise, Mandell says. This supports a more standardized, product-bundle-driven sales process, which is essential in the enterprise space. Traditionally, Junipers business processes were targeted toward very large, complex, and long sales cycles.

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Network Business Transformation Cloud SAP 191

SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

This article explores how the latest tariffs could reshape cybersecurity for enterprises, cybersecurity vendors, and government agencies. While many cybersecurity companies operate on a SaaS model, a significant number still rely on on-premises hardware like firewalls, switches, routers, and SD-WAN devices. The new 25% U.S.

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