IT leaders at today’s cloud-enabled businesses are expected to provide the same predictable performance that they did with on-premise systems. Downtime is not acceptable, and cloud applications are expected to work the way they were meant to. Users want them to be fast, responsive, and not lead them to frustration. All of these, combined with the fact that they also …
Trends in DDoS Attacks to Keep on Your Radar
There is an abundance of news relating to cybercrime and business in the last few years. Hackers are finding new ways to attack enterprises every day. While ransomware continues to grab headlines, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a major problem, too. DDoS is responsible for 22% of downtime reported in 2016, according to the Ponemon Institute. The costs …
Myth Busters: 4 Truths About SD-WAN
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) continues to be a trending topic in the networking world. SD-WAN is a relatively new approach to designing and deploying wide area networks to meet business and application performance requirements, combining application performance-enhancing capabilities with centralized orchestration for rapid service deployment. The more we hear about it, the more the facts get mingled in with speculations, until we …
10 Benefits of Working with a Vendor-Agnostic Cloud Solution Consultant
When you integrate the cloud into your operations, you are exposed to a vast array of service options. There are no shortage of cloud providers in the market, and they will all assure you that their solution is the best one. Instead of dealing with the hassle of discerning the truth from the sales pitch, consider a vendor-agnostic Cloud Solution Consultant. …
What Makes SD-WAN So Revolutionary?
SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN) is the trending buzzword in the network communications world. At its core, SD-WAN utilizes centralized controlling to direct traffic via the strongest and fastest path. It combines the major benefits of SDN, cost efficiency and flexibility, and reproduces them using a WAN, allowing users to take advantage of all possible pathways, including public internet, to get the most value …
Cloudshift and Bandwidth: Is Your Network Ready?
Cloudshift is occurring across all categories of business from single applications to total cloud solutions. It’s not surprising. The cloud delivers scalability, mobility, redundancy, and security all at a lower cost over traditional network cores. But, shifting to the cloud isn’t as simple as flipping a switch and all your data and operations just work seamlessly. You need to consider …
Facing a Cloud DDoS Attack Head-On with Monitoring
One of the greatest benefits of cloud computing is availability of service. You want to be able to access your data anytime and anyplace. One of the older security threats to service availability is a DoS attack, or Denial of Service. This type of attack floods your network with communication requests and ultimately blocks legitimate users from accessing it. The …
2017 SD-WAN Trends to Watch For
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) has gotten a lot of publicity in 2016 as adoption has continued to spread. SD-WAN is igniting a significant change in enterprise networking. It’s transforming WANs from inflexible and expensive to agile and cost-effective. What can we expect to see in SD-WAN in 2017? Tech Target, an industry technology resource, suggests these 5 trends to watch: Move to …
2017 Enterprise Networking Predictions
The end of the year is a great time to look back and see how our industry has changed and consider what the future holds for communications. The oncoming year will be full of development and change in the network world. Here are a few predictions that have been made that we agree with: SDN Moves Beyond the Data Center. The …
What Do Holiday Travel & Your Network Have In Common?
The time for happy gatherings of family and friends is upon us. It’s a joyous time of the year, at least it is once you get there. It’s the travel that we dread – unending traffic, long lines at toll booths, hazards causing us to re-route our path, flight delays due to system malfunctions… too many people trying to get …