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By: Nav Chander, Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing SASE, or the Secure Access Services Edge framework, is the term Gartner created to explain the convergence of WAN and network security functions into a single, cloud-delivered model. This model serves as a core component of the enterprise digital transformation initiatives.  However, a robust SD-WAN is critical to creating an effective SASE framework. To get there, enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) must evaluate and…

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax Think about an organization where, at each moment, a recommendation engine is talking to every part of the business – sharing immediate data on live sales and inventory, the purchasing pipeline, and all the context that impacts the business (market conditions, supply chain issues, even weather). This is nirvana. Enterprises that rely on processing data in batches and depend on analysts to review dashboards cannot deliver data-driven actions…

Pennsylvania-based convenience store and gas station chain Wawa is seeking the return of penalties it paid to Mastercard following a 2019 data breach of its customer payment security systems. In December 2019, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens announced that malware that steals credit card information had potentially been operating at Wawa’s 842 locations across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC and Florida since March. Last year, Wawa turned over $10.7m to the payment-card network in connection with the security incident….

Attracting and retaining the right talent while getting a return on technology investment are the top three challenges that stop organizations from being able to successfully digitize their supply chain operations, according to a survey by management consulting firm PwC. In PwC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey, which polled 244 operations and information technology leaders, C-suite executives and other supply chain officers globally, almost 80% of respondents claimed that their technology investment hadn’t fully…