SD-WAN vs VPN: Can SD-WAN Replace VPN Completely?

CostQoS (Quality of Service)Safe Cloud Usage These three factors are defined as VPN+SD-WAN, or SD-WAN is just an attempt to “re-brand” VPN. It is marked as the advanced enterprise-grade VPN to differentiate it from legacy VPNs.  If we travel a few years back, then VPN was a significant part of networking security. Its property of traffic encryption makes it a level above than others. It, actually, extends the corporate network via encrypted connections across the internet. Since it’s only between the device and the network, the traffic remains secured, while it’s traveling. Even, the employee, working from outside the ...

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Why Cloud will be the backbone of the enterprises of tomorrow

Remember the  ‘Good old days’ - coming to work, opening our computer and listening to voice mails first thing in the morning and then prepare schedule for the day’s work. Well it sounds ancient, but not too long ago, we all were doing this and still marveling at what technology had been able to do for us. Those were the days of desktop computer, connected to an on-premise server, and desktop phones. Even to establish this enterprise infrastructure, organizations were spending tons of money and resources to build and keep it running. For a long time though, this was acceptable ...

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Technology says I will #SMAC you down

That's what I hear when I interact with it daily. My everyday interaction with technology has changed. Before I open a company's website, I search for its LinkedIn page. Before I open my laptop, I access all my applications on my smartphone. I don't use excel anymore for number crunching; the applications I use give me a customized dashboard. And I pay for my usage; I don't need to spend time managing these applications because everything is on cloud. The technology consumption, as I see it, is seeing a paradigm shift - the search journey, the buying cycle, the usage pattern everything ...

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5 Technologies that will matter to India

How big is the Indian market? Is it big enough to spur growth for my product? Do I need to explore it? Should it be a part of my international expansion plan? Numbers are big, but are they really big for us? That's the uncertainty global technology firms experience when they think about India. But this was something new for me. Being a witness to the growth here, I never doubted the potential of the market. However, when I came on board at TaraSpan, I realized this is a story worth telling, a story which has a big audience. I ...

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