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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. That led the global company, which has locations in more than 100 countries, to become an early adopter of the network-security architecture dubbed secure access service edge ( SASE ) by research firm Gartner.

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Composite orchestration is the key to delivering hybrid services through NaaS architecture

TM Forum

Telstra wanted to integrate established service domains, like wireless and transport, while enabling the easy introduction of newer domains, such as cloud and SD-WAN. For example, Telstra is co-developing enterprise solutions with a major Australian construction company, using 5G, SD-WAN and edge computing, leveraging AI, robotics and AR1.

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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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Enabling an MEC application marketplace over a 5G hybrid network

TM Forum

The Catalyst team proposes using software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology as an alternative to a network slice, in order to deliver multi-access edge computing (MEC) applications for a 5G network and beyond and solve the 5G edge compute business problem. The CSP challenge.

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DTW 2022: Axiata CIO Anthony Rodrigo on lessons learned while building an API marketplace

TM Forum

Axiata Group, a leading telecommunications group in Asia with operations serving 350 million subscribers in 11 countries, has learned from its mistakes in launching an API marketplace aimed at small businesses, according to the company’s Group Chief Information Officer Anthony Rodrigo. TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA).

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How IT Can Deliver Better Business Outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

To fully harness the benefits of modern network architectures, network operations teams need a deep understanding of how these systems perform. The end result has been tool sprawl, which costs companies an average of $2.5 This visibility is essential if teams are to avoid the downtime that results in lost revenues. million per year.

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Rapid Digital Transformation Requires Rethinking of Security Frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

However, the increased complexity of a distributed application architecture brought on by digital transformation continues to challenge even the largest security operations. Again, there is no one-size fits all protection and the security requirements for cloud differ from on-premise architectures.

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