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Why Internet Performance Monitoring is the new frontier in a distributed world

CIO Business Intelligence

Applications are no longer standalone entities but are now intricate collections of services, APIs, and distributed applications across various cloud environments. APM primarily uses synthetic agents in the cloud for cloud-to-cloud monitoring, effective for application optimization but inadequate for assessing real user experiences.

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Signals from space: SD-WAN marks the next stage in commercialized space-based comms

CIO Business Intelligence

Indeed, from an individual perspective, one of the biggest demands we place on our mobile phones and computers is better connectivity and access to the internet, anytime and anyplace. As a WAN access technology though, satellite communication does experience its fair share of obstacles.

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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. But that’s not all.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation.

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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. Agnostic approach. The CSP challenge.

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO Business Intelligence

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound.

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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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