About five years ago, the term software-defined WAN or SD-WAN became popularized by leading publications and, since then, the technology has been unraveling 30 years of networking convention. As applications move to the cloud, it no longer makes sense to backhaul all traffic over MPLS to centralized data centers. SD-WAN arrived to simplify branch IT, ...

When it comes to rates of change, cybersecurity has rightly been on the conservative side. Setting up cybersecurity systems, testing them, and getting them working properly takes time. Changes introduce risk. And there is an active community of attackers looking for mistakes when changes are made. But at the same time, the business computing landscape ...

The question is, whether or not it’s possible, even advisable, to press forward with the deployment without IT first having a trial run at it? The answer to that is it’s not only possible, but it might very well be one of the best experiences you have ever had in your career. But getting there ...