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Over the last decade , the mandate for the CIO and other IT executives has transitioned from keeping the lights on to keeping the cash flowing .
As a result , these leaders find themselves grappling with complex business-level challenges unrelated to their technical backgrounds .
Add in the accelerating pace of change in the marketplace , rapidly evolving IT technology , and perennial shortages for key IT skills , and it ’ s no wonder that today ’ s CIOs are under enormous pressure to perform .
A critical tool in the CIO ’ s toolbox is the wide area network ( WAN ), which unites branch offices and remote workers with centralized data centers to form a single interconnected organization .
Enterprises have traditionally implemented WANs as multiprotocol label switching ( MPLS ) networks using hardware routers and manual configuration .
However , WAN architectures create debilitating limitations when organizations attempt to migrate to the cloud or utilize commodity internet connections in their branch offices . The software-defined WAN ( SD- WAN ) was the solution that promised to enable this network transformation .
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