While it has been a mainstay in the private sector for many years, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology is still slowly finding its way into the federal government. However, the ...

While some organizations continue to make use of WAN services such as Frame Relay and ATM, the use of those services is quickly diminishing. As a result, we are rapidly approaching a time when IT ...

The largest automotive retailer in the U.S. had a problem. The IT network it was operating for its roughly 350 locations across 18 states was outdated and inflexible. “We had routers at every store,” ...

Tomorrow’s networking challenges will extend beyond the capabilities of SD-WAN alone. Here’s why and how you can prepare your network. As an IT leader, you’re expected to be the technology vanguard of ...

In December, Versa sponsored an independent survey conducted by Dimensional Research of 308 network professionals across five continents at organizations with 1,000-plus employees. The goal of the ...

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SD-WAN was one of the hottest parts of IT networking not too long ago, and while it has lost lustre among other industry technologies since its heyday, the market is being reinvigorated by advanced ...

‘We’re pretty excited about what Google and Cisco are doing together because it allows our customers to essentially ride Google’s backbone -- can’t get much better than that,’ one Cisco partner told ...

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The 2020 report saw Cisco bounce back in the leadership quadrant and four more players up their SD-WAN games enough to be named leaders. Here are the vendors that made the cut. In the past three years ...

Tommy Peterson is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The software-defined IWAN lets the company ...

Traditional network design dictates that a consistent, dedicated connection should perform better than a faster, unpredictable internet connection. I discovered this isn't so cut-and-dried. A few ...