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

CIO Business Intelligence

Private sector funding in space-related companies eclipsed $10 billion in 2021 , while the EU announced ambitious plans to invest €6 billion in space communications at the beginning of 2022 as we move more operations into space. Companies such as Iridium and Viasat handle highly specialized public and private sector workloads.

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

In addition, desktops and laptops remain revenue-critical workhorses for most companies, and cannot be neglected. Limited WAN Bandwidth. In a 2014 Next-Generation WAN Survey , 68 percent of respondents said demand for WAN bandwidth will increase over the next year. Companies should plan accordingly. I love BYOD.

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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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Software-Defined WANs: Viptela gets $75M in funding

Network World

Looking to continue tapping a market IDC says will be worth $6 billion by 2020, Software-Defined WAN company Viptela today said it raised $75M in a Series C round of financing. The company said it would use the proceeds to grow sales, marketing, technical support and research and development.

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Network teams are ready to switch tool vendors

Network World

Second, tools could take time to implement, especially for larger companies that invest months of time customizing data collection mechanisms, dashboards, alerts, and more. Many vendors have developed new automation features and AI-driven features that reduce the amount of customization that some IT organizations will need to do.

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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.