Building out your SD-WAN solution needs to include a look at how public cloud will impact your decisions. For large companies, like Koch Business Solutions, that choice is even more complicated. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how Koch is building a successful hybrid SD-WAN and public cloud deployment on Amazon AWS.
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First American Title And Viptela: A Story of Resilience
Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how First American Title deployed Viptela SD-WAN to their branch offices and how it impacted their WAN resiliency. He discusses the ability of the solution to fail over between circuits and how circuit reliability is easy to track with Viptela’s dashboard.
Cloud onRamp – Making The Cloud More Local For Your Users
As business moves to the cloud to embrace applications and infrastructure offerings, how can network administrators continue to ensure that the network performs at a level acceptable to users? Viptela Cloud onRamp offers some insights.
Migrating to Healthcare Cloud Apps With Acadia and Viptela
What happens when your software provider forces you to move to the cloud? Read on to find out how Viptela helped Acadia Healthcare solve their cloud dilemma.
FutureWAN – The SD-WAN Education You Need
SD-WAN education is a critical need. FutureWAN has all the info you need to learn about this hot new technology.
Silver Peak’s End-to-End SD-WAN
Among the enterprise-focused SD-WAN companies, a lot of solutions rely on deep packet inspection. It makes a lot of sense, it allows you to see specifically what application traffic is coming through the network, and allows you to do useful analysis. But deep packet inspection does have some performance and security considerations to take into account, and depending on compliance, might not be a viable option. That’s why I was interested to hear about Silver Peak’s SD-WAN solution. It’s an enterprise focused solution, but because of their WAN optimization heritage, doesn’t reply on DPI.
Nuage Networks Addresses the Microsegmentation Problem with SDN
Microsegmentation seems to be getting a lot of buzz in the virtual networking space, especially when it comes to network security. VMWare’s NSX leads the category, but we’re seeing a lot of competition from a variety of vendors. Each seems to have their own spin. Brandon Carroll is intrigued by Nuage’s approach. Whereas some other vendor […]
The Hidden Benefits of SD-WAN Cost Savings
This is post 5 of 5 in the series “Viptela SD-WAN Tech Talk Spring 2016” The primary driver for organizations to move to a new technology is often cost savings. If a technology is doing an adequate job of meeting needs then replacing that technology often must have some kind of justification. Faster speeds and […]
The Journey Towards SD-WAN
This is post 4 of 5 in the series “Viptela SD-WAN Tech Talk Spring 2016” Today’s network has evolved over the years. Modern networks use software defined technologies to enhance service delivery, build in consistency, and lower costs. We’ve seen this happen in large part in the data center. While the data center is one […]
What Motivates A Carrier Towards SD-WAN?
This is post 3 of 5 in the series “Viptela SD-WAN Tech Talk Spring 2016” The Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market is a burgeoning one with technology largely built out of necessity due to the lack of agility of carriers to respond to our growing customer and business needs. Given what may seem […]