Win with the new ways of business in retail

Explore the new ways of business The world is pivoting to new ways of working, shopping and living. Bold, decisive thinking in retail is bringing fresh opportunities for growth. The Dutch market, for example, has seen an increase in home deliveries of 40 percent. As behavioural economics are turned upside down, retail leaders are looking at innovation to support new business models. However, adapting to the new technological changes that consumers demand presents considerable challenges: Navigating the volatility in raw material price ...more

Migrate from a CapEx to OpEx Infrastructure with Segra Cloud Services and Solutions

As businesses look forward to a new year and begin planning next year’s IT budget, the impacts of 2020 are likely to focus discussions on the need for more flexible and cost-effective approaches to technology infrastructure. That’s because traditional data center models based on capital intensive, on-premise computing investments no longer address the new reality of sharply fluctuating economic conditions, reduced IT budgets and a more distributed workforce. Segra’s cloud-based services allow your business to replace costly hardware investme ...more

Five factors to consider when evaluating your next cloud provider

Shopping for a cloud services provider? Narrow your search with this checklist. Whether you’re planning to select your first cloud services provider, or looking to replace a current provider, or even to simply add more cloud services to your existing line-up, choosing the right Cloud Services Provider (CSP) may be the most complicated part of transitioning to the cloud. We’d like to help. Here are five factors to consider when evaluating your next cloud provider. ...more

Fortinet Delivers the Most Flexible SASE Solution

Digital innovation, cloud adoption, and the recent widespread shift to remote work have fundamentally transformed the network. And with the increased reliance on cloud-based resources, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and data moving from the data center to multi-cloud environments, the need for a new approach to secure network access—especially the challenges of implicit trust inherent in legacy network architectures—has become clear. Today’s organizations require immediate, uninterrupted access to network and cloud-based res ...more

Grow Business with Secure Hybrid and Hyperscale Data Centers

As data center infrastructure evolves, more enterprises, hyperscalers, and service providers are embracing hybrid and hyperscale architectures to satisfy unprecedented demands for user experience, while delivering unparalleled performance, scale, and capacity. But this trend also creates security-related needs that can negatively, even severely, affect experience, performance, and scale if not properly addressed, and can lead to attacks, disruptions, and long-term damage to brand and reputation. Organizations should evaluate providers that ...more

The Importance of Self-Healing SD-WAN

As software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) continues to grow in popularity, it is critical to understand what differentiates a secure SD-WAN solution from the much bigger landscape of products and services described as SD-WAN. Secure SD-WAN consolidates advanced routing, next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities, and intuitive orchestration into a single, integrated solution. But there’s an important aspect to secure SD-WAN that’s sometimes overlooked in the industrywide rush to categorize and market the technology: self-healing. ...more

The 5 Keys to Self-Healing, Secure SD-WAN

SD-WAN solutions have become increasingly popular as organizations request fast, scalable, and flexible connectivity among different network environments, and seek to lower overall total cost of ownership (TCO) while preserving user experience. But the wrong SD-WAN solution can significantly inhibit an organization’s ability to quickly adapt to changing business demands, not least because it creates new security headaches. Here are five requirements for a Secure SD-WAN solution that’s flexible, scalable, and fit for the needs of today’s dist ...more

Critical Considerations for Securing Hybrid and Hyperscale Data Centers

Modern hybrid and hyperscale data center architectures must include security that can keep pace. But in many of these data center environments today, traditional network security solutions—especially outmoded traditional firewalls— underperform and underserve, pushing IT teams into dangerous trade-offs between security and performance. Following are six critical considerations for all enterprise IT teams as they design security for modern data center infrastructure. ...more

5 Challenges with Hybrid and Hyperscale Data Center Security and How to Solve Them with Fortinet

Enterprise organizations are taking advantage of data center evolution, but face a number of security challenges as they transition to hybrid and hyperscale data center architectures. Fortunately, Fortinet security-driven networking solutions were designed to solve these challenges, delivering security and performance right-fit for the unprecedented needs of hybrid and hyperscale architecture. Following are common challenges and how to apply Fortinet solutions, with links to detailed solution guides. ...more