While there are numerous features associated with SD WAN comparison, evaluation of the top/best leaders is typically focused on four main topics. In the majority of cases, clients are considering the move from MPLS to SD WAN with the intent of increasing agility by leveraging public cloud access. As we’ve written about previously, SD WAN […]
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Citrix SD WAN is an enterprise-grade solution for businesses looking to optimize and improve their branch office, home workers and remote user connectivity. The Citrix product offers a suite of solutions across three distinct tiers that are designed to support application performance, bandwidth management, secure browsing with SASE security, cloud integration and sophisticated orchestration. This
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Challenges of SD-WAN The pace of digital transformation within the IT sector is putting significant strain on enterprise IT teams. There is a widespread drive to adopt next-generation technologies to meet the demands of remote workers and their public cloud consumption. SD WAN is one of the leading digital technologies to help enterprises transform how
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Businesses constantly evaluate new technologies against their organisational security policy to combat the latest threats and sophisticated attacks across branch office and remote users. One of the most commonly discussed security products is the next generation Firewall, known as NGFW. Next Generation Firewall services and technology consolidates anti-virus features, application awareness, deep stateful inspection capability,
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The need to establish connectivity between geographically separated branches and offices has led to the rise of Software-Defined Wide Area Networks. The legacy solution for this was to rely on hardware appliances and expensive MPLS connections. Yet, SD WAN providers enable users to create inter-branch connectivity through commodity internet services without the need for dedicated
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SASE is a concept brought to the market by Gartner. It represents the convergence of networking and security by combining CASB, DNS protection, Firewall-as-a-services, SD WAN and ZTNA delivered via cloud service infrastructure. The SASE framework (Secure Access Service Edge) model became known to the IT community via a report entitled The Future of Network
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Why adopt SD WAN & SASE? A SASE solution combines WAN services with a range of security functions which include Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Table of Contents Businesses are facing a considerable challenge to decrease network complexity and cost
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What is Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS? Microsoft Azure is a cloud service platform by Microsoft. Formerly known as Windows Azure, it’s a popular platform with a range of cloud services from computing to analytics to networking and storage. Though many believe Microsoft predates Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) actually came before Azure. AWS also leads
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An Overview of 10 Managed Security Service Providers Leading the Way with SASE Solutions Top 10 Managed Security Service Providers Advancements in technology coupled with the growth of cloud computing have sparked a game-changing revolution for businesses. At the same time, the rapid adoption of cloud-based and distributed models has resulted in increasing cyber risks.
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What is uCPE? uCPE, which is an acronym for Universal Customer Premises Equipment, was designed to replace legacy hardware Customer Premises Equipment, or CPE. Previously, network functions and services had to be stored on physical Edge devices, known as CPE. Table of Contents These hardware devices were typically installed in any of the clients locations,
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