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 […]
SD-WAN Market Consolidation? Don’t Hold Your Breath
Drew Conry-Murray of Packet Pushers comments: The torrid growth projected for the SD-WAN market means that a ridiculous number of competitors will be able to sustain themselves for a long time. There’s a lot of money pouring into SD-WAN right now. That means lots of long runways and starry-eyed exit strategies. It will be interesting to […]
Riverbed Announces SteelConnect™ Unified Connectivity Fabric
This is post 8 of 8 in the series “Riverbed SD-WAN Tech Talk” Today, Riverbed has officially announced the release of their SD-WAN solution. The name of the product line is SteelConnect™ and, as expected, has unified the visions of Riverbed’s in-house development initiative named Project Tiger and Ocedo’s unified connectivity fabric approach. Let’s take […]