Can SD-WAN be applied to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)?

Can SD-WAN be applied to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)?

Whether due to startup costs, lack of scalability, or because it hasn´t been specifically designed for small businesses, up to now, it hasn´t been clear how SMEs could benefit from SD-WAN technology. However, given their dynamism and security, software defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) have much to offer those companies. The absolute need for internal information experts to manage networks and...

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Can we really align the network with business?

Can we really align the network with business?

Lately there isn´t a single conversation, presentation or conference (especially now that everyone is talking about digital transformation) where you don´t come across a sentence like this: It needs to stop being a cost center and start taking an active role in the business with a significant impact on the organizational´s results.  And that´s the end of it; and, of course, of any objectives,...

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Microservices & its advantages

Microservices & its advantages

The idea behind Microservices has been with the software industry and developers for about six to seven years now, and it´s definitely a current buzz term which is being heard more and more in the industry. However, in global terms it´s a relatively simple concept. A different way of thinking and hence a different way of working. So, the more traditional monolithic software development approach,...

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Digital Transformation from a business perspective

Digital Transformation from a business perspective

Over the last year colleagues have written blog posts on digital transformation and the new technologies within the telecommunications industry that are accompanying this phenomenon. However, I would like to take a step back and look at the digital transformation from a more business perspective. Some have classified the digital transformation as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where the...

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Software defined networking solutions in remote offices

Software defined networking solutions in remote offices

Today, software-defined network technologies (SDN) can be applied to many more situations than initially thought (i.e., data processing centers) and are being used in the field of WAN to bring, over and above virtualization, resource optimization, flexibility and dynamism to the connectivity services for customers. This new technology, known as SD-WAN, allows the user to get rid of access...

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SD-WAN and security implications – Part 1

SD-WAN and security implications – Part 1

I have written an article on SD-WAN for Seguritecnia, an online and print magazine that is very present in the private security sector in Spain. In said article, I explained the concept of SD-WAN and the security implications associated to this technology (as befits a magazine that focuses on safety). Given the enormous interest in SD-WAN, I decided to give our blog readers the opportunity of...

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