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Thinking outside the cloud: bring cloud agility to your entire infrastructure

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud technology is a springboard for digital transformation, delivering the business agility and simplicity that are so important to today’s business. Cloud is also a powerful catalyst for improving IT and user experiences, with operating principles such as anywhere access, policy automation, and visibility.

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What’s next for network operations

CIO Business Intelligence

These changes are being driven by growing SaaS adoption, increasing workload migration to the cloud, and the need to support the expanding number of employees who work-from-anywhere. Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, convergence is happening with SASE, which converges cloud-delivered security and networking, as well as Secure SD-WAN, zero trust network access (ZTNA), network access control (NAC), secure access points, and secure switches.