Articles By: Mike Frane

The world has been talking a lot about the “new normal” that’s coming our way post-pandemic, and it’s not limited to masks and social distancing. Organizations are evolving to the point where the network perimeter...

With global spending on cyber security estimated to reach $10 billion by 20271, cybersecurity has arguably become one of the most important corporate initiatives. The wide area network (WAN) is one of the most common...

The wide area network (WAN) is the key determinant of application performance, user experience and other key IT success measures. According to Forbes, 83% of workloads will run in the cloud by the end of...

SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) and security technologies are convergently evolving—responding to the needs of the market while stimulating new demand through innovation. SD-WAN and security capabilities are being integrated in platforms both on-premises and...

With its sweeping improvements in agility, reliability, security, performance, and cost, SD-WAN has moved into the networking mainstream in a remarkably short period of time. While MPLS will continue to serve in hybrid networks and...

As every merchant who processes payment cards knows, properly protecting sensitive data requires every in-scope network, device, process, and control to be PCI-compliant. Windstream Enterprise’s SD-WAN solution is the first to achieve PCI DSS compliance,...

The headlines are so common that we all understand clearly: Cyberattacks have become a constant fact of life. But with most of those headlines trumpeting attacks on major corporations and government agencies, it’s easy to...

I don’t normally talk about product releases in my blog posts, but the new SD-WAN Cloud Connect service that Windstream Enterprise recently unveiled is something I’ve been championing for months. Because for me, SD-WAN Cloud...

At the beginning of this year, I wrote a looking back/looking ahead blog post titled 2017: The year SD-WAN caught fire – get ready for more to come. Seems natural for someone with the job...

Prior to SD-WAN, multi-location enterprise networks needed to rely solely on local protection at the branch office level from a data security perspective. This typically meant point security appliances at the network boundary in the...