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What’s next for network operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center. More importantly, WANs lack the flexibility and scalability that digital business requires. More importantly, WANs lack the flexibility and scalability that digital business requires.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, in a recent IDC study , 60% of CIOs stated they are already planning to modify their operating model to manage value, agility, and risk by 2026. For example, with a cloud-managed SD-WAN, a company can establish connectivity and security in about an hour.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), which must protect all areas of enterprise, can filter layer 7 applications, block malicious attachments and links, detect known threats and device vulnerabilities, apply patching, prevent DDoS attacks, and provide web filtering for direct internet access. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.