Is your legacy network holding your organization back?June 11, 2020 | Mike Frane | 4 min read 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...
Is your legacy network holding your organization back?June 11, 2020 | 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...
4 Ways to Improve WAN SecurityNovember 5, 2019 | Mike Frane 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...
How SD-WAN Enhances the Performance of Existing WANsOctober 2, 2019 | Mike Frane 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...
How Businesses Gain from Integrating SD-WAN and SecurityApril 17, 2019 | Mike Frane 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...
SD-WAN in 2019: The New De Facto StandardJanuary 9, 2019 | Mike Frane 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...
PCI Compliance Bolsters the Retail Case for Windstream Enterprise SD‑WANSeptember 18, 2018 | Mike Frane 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,...
Firewalls: No Longer a Sufficient Cyberattack Defense AloneSeptember 17, 2018 | Mike Frane 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...
SD-WAN Cloud Connect: A Truly Exceptional Networking BreakthroughJuly 20, 2018 | Mike Frane 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...
My SD-WAN Predictions for 2018: Taking Stock at the Halfway PointJuly 19, 2018 | Mike Frane 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...
How SD-WAN Can Take On Branch Office Security ChallengesApril 10, 2018 | Mike Frane 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...