June 6, 2019
AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform continue to compete for the title of the best public cloud provider. 2019 figures from Rightscale (reported in ZDNet's annual report) have Amazon's AWS as the clear market leader on 61% market share but Google Cloud Platform, currently in third spot, have more...
May 29, 2019
In 2019, Network management and monitoring (both on-premises and cloud-based) are among the top priorities of IT teams, followed by analytics. The demand for network flexibility, scalability and bandwidth have already wiped out legacy network infrastructure. Like a domino effect of the surge of cloud, new technologies, and the constantly...
May 22, 2019
Security has always been a top concern for enterprises. As the tectonic shift to digital continues, enterprises witness both sides of a coin- transformation to new technology and other side being the constantly evolving cyber threats and attacks. Challenged to prevent enterprises from an array of security gaps in the...
May 16, 2019
Cybersecurity is one of IT’s top most concerns. As the world gets digitised, the role of IT has evolved and is no more limited to server rooms and labs. IT today is responsible to prevent cyber attacks and establish powerful defense mechanism for their enterprise. While concepts like BYOD and...
May 14, 2019
The components - SD-WAN Edge, SD-WAN Controller (CloudStation), Service Orchestrator, SD-WAN Gateway, CloudStation Web Portal (Managed Service Portal) – of SD-WAN can be leveraged in several ways in a Hybrid WAN scenario. In a Hybrid WAN deployment, it is better to have one site with Broadband links and one site...
May 9, 2019
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an internet routing protocol built 20 years ago. It is used to exchange route reachability of one party with another party. For example, let’s say there is an enterprise which has reachability in Bangalore and has a local ISP. Now the traffic is destined to somewhere...
May 7, 2019
SNMP is a widely used protocol in Network Management and network monitoring. SNMP provides granular visibility to data of variables managed and organized in MIB (Management Information Base). Three significant versions of SNMP have been developed and deployed. SNMPv1 is the original version of the protocol. More recent versions, SNMPv2c...
May 2, 2019
To put simply, load balancing means to distribute workloads (data) intelligently between different computing services to improve connectivity – Reliability, redundancy and network performance. Load balancers are like traffic police. They manage traffic between enterprise servers. Load balancers are crucial today to manage evolving traffic patterns ensuring there’s no overload...
April 30, 2019
Network security remains a prime concern as enterprises helm forward towards digital. 95% of CIOs expect cybersecurity threats to increase and impact their enterprise. Are enterprises doing enough to mitigate new age network security threats? Traditionally, WAN and network security was considered two different aspects. IT networking teams focused...
April 25, 2019
Enterprises relying on MPLS can significantly reduce networking cost by implementing software defined wide are networks. In addition to cost saving, SD-WAN enables automation, intelligence and centralized management which makes enterprise networks cloud ready. Weighing all these factors into consideration, SD-WAN cost savings in enterprises can surge higher than 60%. ...
April 23, 2019
According to a study, enterprises that have converted more than 90% of their sites to SD-WAN are realizing significant improvements: 20% reduction in staffing required for the WAN, and 33% reduction in the amount of time WAN staff spend on troubleshooting. They are likewise seeing a 69% reduction in the...
April 18, 2019
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you...