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WAN challenges steer auto-rental firm to SASE

Network World

Latency and reliability concerns set car rental company Sixt on a path to rearchitect its WAN. WAN challenges steer Sixt to cloud-native SASE deployment (Network World). Gartner estimates at least 40% of enterprises will have explicit strategies to adopt SASE by 2024, up from less than 1% at the end of 2018.

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What’s enabled Fresenius to transform IT

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s better to do it quickly, like taking a Band-Aid off, even if it hurts for a short time,” he summed up at the recent Hamburg IT Strategy Days 2024. Elfering is networked to an SD-WAN, and internal communication and collaboration at Fresenius has also been underpinned with new collaboration tools.

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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO Business Intelligence

Together, the two projects earned Tractor Supply a 2024 CIO 100 Award for IT leadership and innovation. All Tractor Supply stores already had SD-WAN networks and 5G broadband service available, and security cameras were IP enabled, enabling them to link into the Computer Vision capabilities.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud optimization is the new initiative in 2024,” says Rajeev Nair, general manager of IT infrastructure and security at Cathay, a major airliner and cargo carrier in the Asia-Pacific region, with headquarters in Hong Kong.

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The Role of SD-WAN in Securing the Expanding Network Perimeter

CIO Business Intelligence

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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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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8 network trends shaping India’s digital landscape

CIO Business Intelligence

As we head into 2024, let’s explore 10 network trends that are shaping the digital space. This is why more adaptive networks are in demand, and wide-area networks (WANs) are becoming software-defined so that they can be controlled from a single location and use automation to self-adjust as needed.

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