The strategic resemblance between the philosophy behind secure access service edge (SASE) and DevSecOps is uncanny.
What SASE Means for DevOps Teams
You have probably heard the acronym secure access service edge (SASE), and it’s hard to ignore its impact on the technology industry. SASE is a cool new way to implement networking in hybrid environments, and the most important thing about it is that it bakes security into the network fabric. In plain English—when you plug […]
Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud
A global survey of 1,600 enterprise IT decision-makers found more than half are working for organizations that plan to eliminate the use of data centers over the next two years. The survey was conducted by Aryaka, a provider of a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and found a quarter of the respondents have closed […]
Ensuring Network Connectivity With SD-WAN and AIOps
Recently, Facebook experienced an outage. If companies relied on that app to do business, their IT teams were likely swamped with end-user complaint calls. How would teams traditionally respond? They’d dive deep into the rabbit hole, analyzing issues on a case-by-case basis, asking countless questions, including: Could there be a problem with the enterprise network? […]
The Biggest Motivators and Barriers for SD-WAN Adoption in 2021
The SD-WAN market has exploded in 2020, driven by the need to support increasingly remote workforces, the emergence of the AI-driven WAN and the requirement to deliver branch performance that matches campus networks. As enterprises look at the year ahead, support for the distributed workforce remains a top priority, and SD-WAN is a crucial technology […]
Juniper Networks Brings AI to SD-WANs
Juniper Networks today announced it can now apply the same artificial intelligence (AI) engine it uses to automate the management of wireless local area networks (LANs) to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs). Based on an AI engine that Juniper Networks gained when it acquired Mist Systems, the Juniper Mist WAN Assurance cloud service streams telemetry […]
Barracuda Networks Partners With Microsoft on SD-WAN Service
Barracuda Networks today launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service that runs natively on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Klaus Gheri, vice president of network security for Barracuda Networks, said Microsoft has made it possible to launch an SD-WAN service using Azure Virtual WAN Hubs, a networking service based on a hub-and-spoke architecture that unifies […]
HPE Acquires Silver Peak to Gain SD-WAN
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak, a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) platform provider, which will be incorporated into its Aruba Networks subsidiary. Keerti Melkote, president of Intelligent Edge for HPE, told industry analysts the $925 million acquisition will eventually lead to edge computing devices all being managed via the […]
Report: SD-WAN Shift to the Cloud Accelerates
The rate at which software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) are being consumed as a cloud service appears to be accelerating in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A global survey of 750 IT professionals conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Barracuda Networks finds over half of respondents (52%) are looking […]
Making SD-WAN More Secure and Flexible
Cloud and managed services enable companies to focus scarce IT resources on business outcomes. According to Gartner, the “market size for cloud is growing exponentially, and cloud is projected to be a $317 billion industry by 2022.” Managed service providers (MSPs) leverage the power of software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) to offer higher quality services […]