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Since the earliest days of computing, we’ve endeavored to provide users with efficient, secure access to the critical applications which power the business. From those early mainframe applications being accessed from hard-wired dumb terminals to the modern cloud-based application architectures of today, accessible to any user, from anywhere, on any device, we’ve witnessed the changing technology landscape deliver monumental gains in user productivity and flexibility.  With today’s workforce being increasingly remote, the delivery of secure,…

Happy New Year! I can’t recall another year that I was as happy to leave behind as 2020. While we’re still facing tremendous challenges as the impacts of COVID-19 continue to ripple throughout the world economy and our public health systems, I feel renewed hope and energy as we embark on a new year. I hope you’re also feeling inspired and ready to take on 2021! 2020 was a year full of unknowns, but it…

This blog is coauthored by Kishore Seshadri, Vice President and General Manager for SD-WAN, SD-Branch and User Experience Insights at Aruba.  Over the last few years, enterprises have been rapidly moving workloads to public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. This trend has accelerated further in the last few months with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprises have learned to extensively leverage the IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS…

Today we launch our brand new publication, Defending Against Critical Threats: A 12 month roundup. Click to readDefending Against Critical Threats: A 12 month roundup Inside, we take a retrospective look at cyber threats, and how they have evolved in the last 12 months. In something a little different to our previous reports, we’ve designed this in a magazine style format to include both interviews with security experts, and research driven features. Our intention is…

(Editor’s note: A recent Enterprise Management Associates survey of 303 WAN managers found that native monitoring is an important factor in choosing SD-WAN products, but many respondents say additional third-party monitoring tools are also needed. This article by EMA Vice President of Research Networking Shamus McGillicuddy explores some of the survey results  included in the report “Enterprise WAN Transformation: SD-WAN, SASE, and the Pandemic” that is based on the survey.) SD-WAN technology offers native monitoring…

Almost a year ago now, Cisco decided to ensure the safety of all employees and closed our offices globally. It was clearly the right move to make in the wake of so many unknowns. As a Site Engagement Manager for our Galway, Ireland offices – I had to sit down and figure how this affected us from a culture perspective. With 75% site attendance in Galway we always have a highly populated office which helps…

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can be invaluable tools to spur innovation, but they have different management requirements than typical enterprise IT applications that run at moderate CPU and memory utilization rates. Because AI and ML tend to run intense calculations at very high utilization rates, power and cooling costs can consume a higher proportion of the budget than an IT group might expect. It’s not a new problem, but the impact is…

As the traditional approach to networking is replaced by hybrid cloud, SD-WAN and edge networks, in-house skill sets haven’t kept up. Hiring new staff is one option to narrow the deficit, but there’s a skills shortage in the industry right now, and hiring is expensive. According to McKinsey, it often costs around $30,000 to bring on a new employee, not counting the onboarding training. As a result, 82% of global executives surveyed by McKinsey say…

Chances are good that any skill set or title including the word “cloud” will open doors for new job opportunities these days. That’s because the cloud has become a key component of digital transformation—something many organizations are striving to achieve. To that end, enterprises continue to migrate data, workloads, development, and other components of their technology environments from on premises to cloud services at a brisk pace, and they need people who possess relevant skills…

We will see a rise in Apps! Last year, IDC predicted a 50% increase in the number of applications over 2020/2021 (Source: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Cisco, Transforming Applications and Multicloud Operations). Fast forward to today, it’s even more about apps and digital services to keep the business running and to grow and compete even more aggressively. It’s not just the rise of the Apps, how they are being built, deployed and operated has changed. Monolithic…