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What’s the 2020 on the Cloud?
With each passing year, mobile- and cloud-based services are further supplanting the customer-premise equipment (CPE) standard. This leads to two major challenges for network engineers.
The Cost of Network Outages
“Network outages can cost financial institutes up to $60k for 30 minutes of downtime.” I was just speaking to a long time customer of ours that divulged this to me when discussing their upcoming network connectivity needs. As a financial...
A Glimmer of Hope for Industrial Security in 2016
Creating the smart grid for critical infrastructure is becoming increasingly feasible from an economic standpoint. For the oil and gas industry this could mean greatly-reduced operating costs and more efficient fuel consumption.
One Link, Multiple In-Line Security Appliances—What Can Security Architects Do?
The days when firewalls alone could defend corporate networks are long gone. Today, security architects are realizing that the most productive way to protect enterprise networks is to deploy active, in-line security appliances at the edge...
What’s the 2020 on SDN?
To satisfy the ever-more-specific demands of consumers, network professionals must rise to the challenge of building the most flexible, user-friendly systems possible. In order to make this happen, administrators must be ready to make the...
Ransomware, a Billion Dollar World Wide Threat
Every day I hear that a company has solved the network and file security war with a new security widget. Yet every day there are more announcements of breaches, stolen identities, etc. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC)...