Hybrid IT and the adoption of work-from-anywhere (WFA) strategies have led to the exponential expansion of new network edges. And for many organizations, this has resulted in an expanded and fragmented attack surface that has become a perfect opportunity for bad actors to launch cybersecurity attacks from new attack vectors, undermining the ability of network and security leaders to maintain business operations without disruptions.

Traditional flat networks, including network-based segmentation or even micro-segmentation techniques, cannot ...

Enterprises are adopting hybrid IT, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and 5G to gain operational agility. These tools help them build composable and scalable architectures that interconnect distributed branches, campuses, on-premises data centers, and multi-clouds into a unified network. And yet, in the midst of this change, the enterprise on-premises data center remains an essential component of most networks. Its role is vital because it protects applications, data, and workloads that can’t be moved to the cloud but that still need to be ...

Digital acceleration is driving the adoption of hybrid IT architectures. These new hybrid environments blend data centers, campuses, branches, home offices, and multi-cloud environments into a dynamic, interconnected networking environment. When implemented correctly, a hybrid network provides critical services that traditional IT cannot offer, such as operational agility, hyper scale, and location independence. These, in turn, allow organizations to compete more effectively in today’s digital economy through improved productivity, more efficie ...

In today’s digital marketplace, speed and availability are essential. Organizations turned to digital innovation to remain competitive, trading their legacy systems for hybrid networks and digital processes, including cloud and business application adoption. The success of this transition, both in terms of customer satisfaction and user productivity, resulted in the most sweeping transformation of business networks in 40 years. And this journey has just begun.

Today’s digital acceleration and hybrid IT architecture strategies enable organiza ...

Even as digital acceleration continues to transform businesses, the campus remains the heart of the network. Today, the campus network needs to do much more than simply interconnect the buildings located in the same geographical location. It also needs access to the internet, dispersed data centers, and applications deployed in both the data center and multiple clouds. And it needs to interconnect an increasingly hybrid workforce that needs to collaborate from both within and outside the campus local-area network (LAN).

With the proliferatio ...