Every day we speak with IT and product leaders looking for ways to improve the networking component of their application delivery. When the topic of MPLS comes up, there is a predictable groan of resigned disappointment. No one is coming to its defence. How can a technology that is so widely used, be so uniformly
Cloud Networking and SD-WAN
For cloud-delivered SaaS application providers, SD-WAN adoption has been a bit slower as their cloud challenges require different networking approaches. With the rise of hybrid cloud environments (mixing cloud and on-prem resources), networking has replaced the data center as the central component of enterprise infrastructure. As hybrid cloud has become more common, so too has
Cloud Fintech Needs a Better Network
After years of taking a ‘wait and see’ approach, fintech applications are moving to the public cloud. As a vendor with the privilege of talking to both application providers and financial institutions (FIs) daily, we find very few who are happy with the WAN solutions available to them as they move to the cloud. Initially,
Removing Cloud Limitations with Edge Networking
Explore the potential of edge networking to overcome cloud limitations. Discover how public cloud providers leverage coordinated systems.
A Networking or Application Platform?
A service mesh is a critical component of modern Application Platform architectures. It is a software infrastructure that facilitates communications between microservices, controlling how different parts of a distributed application integrate with each other. By disassembling monolithic application architectures, service mesh allows applications to be broken down into a collection of services that can be
What is WAN Edge Infrastructure?
As Gartner defines it, WAN Edge Infrastructure is a class of networking technology that provides connectivity to distributed IT resources. Whether those resources are in data centers, public clouds or delivered as SaaS applications, connectivity is delivered through a combination of hardware and software that works to provide reliability and security to the network. What
What deploying to 20% of banks and credit unions means to us
The Importance of Security and Cost-Effectiveness in Banking IT Anyone who has worked in banks and credit unions IT departments, knows a couple of truths are threaded through every technology adoption decision. As an industry, financial services organizations are generally more risk-averse than most. And rightfully so – the data they are handling is arguably
Webinar: Securing a Remote Workforce
For financial institutions, the shift to remote workforce has put a strain on both staff and technology. In the past, banks used to conduct all their operations exclusively in offices. It was the place where the vault was located, where customers came to sign documents and where their work applications resided. Now, tools like Slack,
ZTNA for Banking
While many are familiar with the advantages and challenges of VPN for remote user access, many are less familiar with Zero Trust network access (ZTNA). For those who don’t know, ZTNA is the next-generation VPN solution for high-security and compliance organizations that require high productivity from remote staff. Because of its security and compliance focus,
Secure a Remote Workforce by Killing the VPN
VPN limitations in the modern IT landscape VPN served its purpose well, but Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is now transforming the definition of remote access solutions. It answered the IT architectures and business challenges of its time. Employees needed to access centralized data centers hosting enterprise applications when they were off-site, and these connections
The Limitations of SD-WAN
Secure access service edge (SASE) is currently a popular approach to network security, but many are still uncertain about the most effective way to implement it, particularly given the limitations of SD-WAN. SASE marries network functionality with security to bring policy-driven inspections and protections to every facet of an enterprise IT environment. At the heart of
The Next Generation of Community Banking Connections
Banking software providers have delivered some of the most solid and secure WAN connectivity for decades. From the early days of dedicated T1 circuits, to MPLS, VPN and now SD-WAN, the connections between software providers and banks, including Community Banking Connections, have been at the forefront of WAN technology. They didn’t really have a choice.