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information, while still providing IT the
centralised control and visibility it needs.
Everything is managed inside a secure,
centralised data centre and delivered with
local performance out to the branch.
The resulting benefits are numerous,
including greater visibility and control.
In turn, these ensure a reduction in
the risk of a data breach and simpler
IT management, which enables faster
remediation of issues to better ensure
information availability and accelerate
application performance.
This kind of stateless approach means
systems serving existing branches can
be redeployed, upgraded, moved or
migrated with ease, and expanded
to accommodate the opening of new
branch offices.
While companies can slash their entire
branch IT costs by eliminating the need to
purchase, maintain and protect servers in
branch offices, employees will encounter
fewer instances of system outages or slow
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application performance, enabling them to
do their work whether they’re in the office
or traveling, from any type of device.
R.I.P. router
To meet the complexity associated with
increased cloud usage and to gain control
of the data centre, CIOs are responding
by harnessing technologies that can
differentiate their business, provide a
better customer experience and ultimately
help them gain a competitive edge. They
are leading enterprise IT teams through
one of the biggest transitions in a decade,
as organisations go hybrid and implement
software-defined networks.
‘CIOs…ARE LEADING
ENTERPRISE IT TEAMS
THROUGH ONE OF THE
BIGGEST TRANSITIONS
IN A DECADE, AS
ORGANISATIONS GO
HYBRID AND IMPLEMENT
SOFTWARE-DEFINED
NETWORKS.’
IT teams will begin implementing complete
solutions for visibility, optimisation and
control in order to move to a softwaredefined enterprise with more agility and
take full advantage of cloud, SaaS, hybrid
and SD-WAN options. As a result, the
2016 network will no longer need to rely
on that long-time stalwart of networking,
the router. A software-defined approach to
applications will become the norm.
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