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Cisco talks 2017 SD-WAN predictions

Network World

There certainly was a ton of hype in Software Defined-WAN arena in 2016 but to be fair there was a lot of actual deployment of technology and services as well. In December Gartner wrote that spending on SD-WAN products will rise from $129 million in 2016 to $1.24 billion in 2020.

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Read This If You Do Business in China

SecureWorld News

A Chinese bank forced two organizations, a UK-based technology and software vendor and a major financial institution, to download a software package in order to pay local taxes. But the bank left out a critical detail about the software: it included malware.". FBI issues new warning against Chinese tax software.

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Maria Lensing: The Network Platform for Healthcare’s Future

Cloud Musings

With technologies like software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), AT&T healthcare solutions team is not talking about replacement technology. SD-WAN can also reduce the management costs and allow a business to seamlessly transition between all of those other critical technologies (i.e.,

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Connections Redefining the Enterprise Network

Cloud Musings

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. At a minimum, your team must be adept at network management automation, software defined networking and cloud networking operations.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. Navigating the pandemic.

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Sandbox AQ CEO: Enterprises must prep for quantum threats

CIO Business Intelligence

Sandbox began life as a secretive division of Google parent company Alphabet in 2016, and in March 2022 became a company in its own right, Sandbox AQ. The company plans to apply those technologies in the development of software-as-a-service products for the enterprise, tackling problems such as cybersecurity, navigation, and drug discovery.

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MWC19: Where Telecommunications and Cloud Meet

Cloud Musings

To be competitive, network operators experiencing this situation need to “digitally transform” operations through deployment of network virtualization capabilities and software-defined networking. WAN Orchestration. Jackson 2016-2019 ) Follow me at [link]. They actually call it their “ 5G Platform.”