Office 365: How to Calculate Bandwidth Requirements When Moving From MPLS to SD-WAN or SASE
How much bandwidth should you budget for each site when deploying Microsoft Office 365? It’s a common question, one posed to me yet again by one recent customer. They were a global MPLS shop with 40 locations worldwide. The company was planning to transition to SD-WAN and local Internet breakout. They had been storing their […]
Cloud Engineering Made Easy
This post is not about SD-WAN, but since the Cloud is often a part of many SD-WAN implementations today, my feeling is that is valuable information to share. We all know that cloud is not a question of “if”, but rather “when” and “how”. For many organizations the cloud-first or even cloud-only strategies have become […]
Profile: How Persistence With SD-WAN Paid Off For Klӧckner Pentaplast
Persistence is, as they say, the key to personal success. It’s also the key to the success of any IT project particularly when that project is a new network architecture. Just ask Jonathan Phillips. As the Group IT Manager of Network Services at Klӧckner Pentaplast (kp), Phillips was responsible for handling the global network of […]
Profile: How KEMET IT Thrived During COVID-19
Assertive, sharp, a natural storyteller — Chris Hall is the portrait of an IT executive. As the VP of Global Information Technology at KEMET, Chris is responsible for everything from the global network, ERP, Shop Floor Control Systems, and employee experience as it relates to technology for this industry-leading manufacturer of passive electronic components. But […]
SD-WAN and MDR: First Take Care of Business
For a while now, we’ve spoken about the convergence of SD-WAN and security. Three years ago, the two domains were still very separate. Few, if any, of the SD-WAN evaluations we conducted factored in NGFW and IPS architectures. Today, considering how security will work with SD-WAN has become the norm for my clients, particularly with […]
Managed Detection and Response: Integrated SIEM versus Inherent MDR
Guest Writer Bio: Eyal Webber-Zvick is Cato Networks’ Senior Director of Product Marketing and Business Development with over 20 years of experience in security and networking companies. With Gartner’s introduction of the SASE architecture, the industry has accepted that security and networking should be converged and delivered from the cloud. This architecture reduces costs, makes […]
Latency Across Cloud Backbones Varies Significantly
One of the most exciting developments to happen in enterprise networking has been the rise of private backbones. Alibaba, Azure, AWS, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all can connect your SD-WAN appliances, offering lower, more predictable latency than the open Internet. We’ve already spoken about the problems of the open Internet and the […]
How to Integrate SASE with Your Existing WAN and SD-WAN
We’ve spoken a lot about the emergence of Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Gartner might not have been the first consultancy to describe how security and networking are converging together into a global cloud service, but its definition has certainly become popular. Already, we’ve seen several of our clients requesting SASE elements in their […]
Coronavirus and Remote Access are the Best Reason for SASE Architectures
As we grapple with the implications of Coronavirus, IT professionals need to ready themselves for what’s being called the largest work from home experiment in history. Numerous countries are requiring workers to be remote. Just last month, Cato Network reported seeing a 75% jump in active remote users. Over here at SASE Experts, we’ve seen […]
SASE: Five Networking Questions to Ask Palo Alto and Every Other Security Vendor Offering a SASE Solution
We’ve seen quite a few vendors claiming to offer secure access service edge (SASE) solutions since Gartner first introduced the architecture to the market last fall. Some vendors have come from the networking space but many of the biggest companies — Netskope, Palo Alto, and Zscaler — have their roots in security. With SD-WAN firms, […]