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WAN Confusion: Why WAN Data Acceleration isn’t

WAN optimisation or SD-WAN WAN optimisation and SD-WAN vendors tend to talk about cost-efficiencies, scalability, virtual flexibility, their ability to accelerate any application despite the limitations of TCP/IP, being cloud-ready, industry-leading. In addition, it’s about being able to accelerate any application despite the inhibitions created by latency and packet loss. They are indeed great technologies, and each one has their purpose, but they often fail to live up to expectations – particularly regarding their vendors’ often touted claims that they enable more efficient usage of bandwidth. By Graham Jarvis, on behalf of Bridgeworks.

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Enabling digital learning with network visibility

The need to connect remotely has hugely affected all students this year, altering their university experience. By Adrian Rowley, Senior Director Sales Engineering EMEA at Gigamon.

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Strengthening borderless networks

Five ways cloud-managed DDI can help. By Malcolm Murphy, Technical Director, EMEA at Infoblox.

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The answer to a successful multi-cloud strategy lies in the network

Digital transformation entails many technologies, but cloud adoption sits chiefly among them. As organisations have adjusted to a highly distributed workforce in the wake of COVID-19, the importance of cloud has increased significantly, becoming an integral component of company operations to ensure business continuity. By Nav Chander, senior director, service and cloud provider marketing at Silver Peak.

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PAM4: a fundamental shift for 400G networking

Four-step Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM4) in pluggable fibre optics is expected to be the biggest shift in networking since its introduction to the network in the last decade. By Ray Hagen, Global Product Line Manager at ProLabs.

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Three things to still watch out for in your IT network

By Martin Hodgson – Head of UK & Ireland, Paessler AG.

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Boosting Connectivity will Fuel the New Remote Everything

As we move into a new way of working, there is an exciting opportunity for providers to explore new offerings for businesses to deliver connectivity outside of traditional city centre offices and into people’s homes. By Jamie Jefferies, GM and VP of EMEA at Ciena.

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The Key Benefits for High Availability Load Balancing

By Anthony Webb, EMEA Vice President at A10 Networks.

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The Connected Enterprise

By Craig Stewart, CTO at SnapLogic.

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Realising The Potential Of A New 5G-Connected World

By John Crawford, General Manager International 5G at Verizon.

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Videos

DCS talks to Jon Summers from RISE Research Institutes of Sweden at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event on 16th February 2023.
Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the activities of the organisation as it works on many initiatives to promote environmental best practice across the data centre and wider IT sectors, optimistic that the scale of the challenge is not beyond the reach of a combination of technology and business innovation.
Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.
Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

News

Blue Tahiti, a database marketing software solutions provider, has relocated its IT operations to Proximity’s Bristol-based Edge 9 colocation data centre.
VMware has introduced the next evolution of the company’s flagship VMware Partner Connect program.
Phishing attacks remain a significant threat to organizations. According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, based on the survey conducted by Egress with 500 cybersecurity leaders, 92% of organizations were victims of phishing in the past 12 months, and 86% experienced negative consequences as a result.
International research report by Westcon-Comstor reveals challenges of complex multivendor portfolios, and the need for distributor marketplaces to simplify and add value,