Our manufacturing customers are a diverse bunch. From automatic test equipment, automotive  speakers and smart sensors to consumer-facing beauty products and sustainable packing solutions for the transportation of produce, our customers range across every vertical with headquarters, sites, manufacturing plants and a growing number of remote workers all over the world. When we recently surveyed […]

Last year, during the middle of the pandemic I noticed a pattern while conversing with many of our customers, partners, and prospects. They were all managing rapid change, with no clear manual to deal with it. Ironically, many of them had prepared for contingencies of the highest order – earthquakes, tsunamis, cyber attacks etc. But […]

This year has seen its fair share of unexpected and unprecedented events. It added layers of uncertainty and complexity to our private and professional lives. Yet, one trend has not only held steady but accelerated. The use of Multi-Cloud by companies of all sizes has seen a steady rise in adoption and shows no indication […]

There is one recent experience we knowledge workers across the globe have shared over the last 4 months: while we have always been well acquainted with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, 8×8, BlueJeans, Slack, Google Meets and several others, now these tools reign supreme as critical center pieces to our productivity. They […]

APAC’s and China’s #1 Cloud Provider comes together with the World’s Best Managed SD-WAN provider to deliver seamless global connectivity. We’re excited to announce our latest partnership, one that will redefine cloud access for enterprises globally and accelerate Digital Transformation initiatives. This partnership enables customers across Asia Pacific and in China to extend their reach […]

We all know that in the world of the cloud-first digital enterprise, key business processes rely on network performance – if the network doesn’t deliver on the expected SLAs, there is direct impact on business results and employee productivity. A typical use case involves remote offices in distant geographies accessing application data that is stored […]

As part of our global managed SD-WAN service, ‘pre-wired’ multi-cloud connectivity is one of the linchpins of our offering.  This permits our customers to access IaaS/PaaS/SaaS via our SLA-driven private backbone for mission-critical applications, as opposed to relying on the public internet that doesn’t offer end-to-end QoS guarantees.  The Oracle Cloud, offering some unique capabilities, […]

The other day, after I talked to a prospective customer, they told me they had read my last blog and that, while I talked about intent-based networking , I had omitted writing about orchestration, which is a key element in intent-based networking. They were right. In my defense, that would have made for a very […]

We’ve all read about the growth of the public cloud and the adoption of SaaS. One of the leaders in this space is of course Microsoft Azure, both as infrastructure, but also as the platform for Office 365.  In fact, Azure revenues have soared 75% year-over-year.  Today, Microsoft is announcing launch partners for their new Azure […]

It wasn’t a comfortable journey; redesigning all your legacy applications for the cloud, identifying the right IaaS architecture, migrating your CRM to the Salesforce cloud and signing up for Office 365. You even augmented capacity on your MPLS backbone to cater to the additional traffic from SaaS and IaaS applications. Cloud applications performed great in […]

Previously, operational technology (OT) was isolated solely in the machines used for manufacturing, energy maintenance, and logistics. Though many of these tools for monitoring had digital controls, they were closed and not connected to a network. The Modern Advancement of Operational Technology (OT) Today, however, we are witnessing a convergence between information technology (IT) and […]

Today’s CIOs face a number of heavy demands in building and managing a network for their global employees. Enabling workers to access cloud applications from anywhere, any time, on any device can be a difficult balancing act to manage. They need to make sure that application performance levels remain high and overall productivity never suffers, […]