The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

Microsoft has introduced a new virtual WAN as a competitive differentiator and is getting enough tracking that AWS and Google may follow. At present, Microsoft is the only company to offer a virtual ...

Returning to our discussion on virtual appliances one of the areas where we are seeing a lot of use of virtual appliance technology is in the WAN optimization market. WAN optimization has been atop ...

Microsoft has been busy during its Ignite 2018 conference this week. After unveiling product announcements across Office 365, security, Azure and IoT, the company has unveiled a pair of new offerings ...

VMware on Wednesday announced the integration of VMware SD-WAN into the Azure Virtual WAN Hub, automatically connecting SD-WAN branches to the Microsoft Azure backbone. With the combination, "you get ...

Having covered over the last several columns the key WAN factors affecting application performance as well as the “chattiness” issues of certain applications, a lot of the history of the Enterprise ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Software-defined WAN vendor Silver Peak recently expanded product integration with Microsoft cloud services, now enabling enterprises to automate branch office connectivity to Office 365 and Azure ...

Demand for SD-WAN solutions is growing by leaps and bounds with some estimates calling for the percentage of enterprises implementing SD-WAN to roughly triple over the next few years. In this session, ...

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Is there anything real anymore? Virtual servers, virtual desktops, cloud storage — what happened to good old steel boxes you could set a user’s manual on? Oh wait, even documentation is software now.