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Supporting, Extending, and Protecting Virtual Environments

Virtualization remains the key technology of the data center. It's also been the foundational technology that allowed cloud to proliferate. In modern environments, to get the most out of cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud, organizations need to stay on top of the latest developments in virtualization. Watch this On-Demand event to learn about the latest technologies in virtualization and virtualization-adjacent areas, like containers, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, the software-defined data center, and more!

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We sympathize with the IT teams that keep their networks running – we really do. We understand it’s a thankless job where they’re ignored if everything’s working and blamed when everything’s not. That’s why we’ve tried to make our network infrastructure and application experience (AX) products as simple and intuitive as possible.

Insider Risk: The Call is Coming from Inside the House

In IT, we tend to think of threats as external. Hackers, scammers, bots, and DDoS attacks are all external in origin. But surprisingly, insider risk is often one of the biggest network security challenges facing IT. As they say, sometimes it’s the ones closest to you that can hurt you the most.

What a delayed SD-WAN or SASE decision could cost you

Winners make good decisions fast, execute them quickly, and see higher growth rates and/or overall returns from their decisions. That’s according to a McKinsey study, ‘Decision-Making In The Age Of Urgency’. But the same study also pointed out that ineffective decision-making has significant implications for company productivity today. On average, survey respondents said they spent 37 percent of their time making decisions.

What Healthcare Companies Need from Network Management and Network Monitoring

IT pros in the healthcare industry have one of the toughest jobs imaginable. Herculean task number one is protecting patient data, with failure to do so bringing hefty HIPAA fines and more than a little bad press. Gargantuan task number two is stopping breaches (and then doing forensics if one busts through). Failing either of these is not exactly a confidence booster. Don’t forget, almost all hacks and breaches either attack the network itself or go across it to reach their target.