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TECH TALK
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DON’T LET YOUR LEGACY
NETWORK STIFLE DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
IT infrastructure may be considered the heart and
soul of a business so keeping it up to date is a defining
factor for success. Hubert da Costa, SVP and GM
EMEA, Cybera, says modern technology solutions such
as SD-WAN are the answer to preventing a legacy
infrastructure from delaying business development.
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s distributed enterprises all
over the world journey towards
Digital Transformation, they’re
increasingly migrating workloads to the
cloud. Unfortunately, their legacy network
architectures built in the pre-cloud era haven’t
kept pace with this technology evolution and
are unable to deliver the performance, agility
and security required in today’s application-
driven, SaaS-based world.
In order to manage costs, enterprises have
long relied on traditional virtual private
networks (VPNs) for connecting their
remote locations and new applications.
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However, the adoption of mobility, Big
Data, social media, cloud and the Internet
of Things (IoT) has extended traditional
enterprise perimeters to the network edge
and beyond.
As new applications are added to
distributed enterprise locations, the
practice of simply adding more VPNs to
secure them has become increasingly
complex and cost prohibitive. As a result,
legacy VPN technology has also become
more vulnerable to new security threats
and therefore less appealing in highly
distributed enterprises.
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TRADITIONAL
SECURITY
APPROACHES ARE
FALLING SHORT
OF THE NEEDS OF
TODAY’S HIGHLY
DISTRIBUTED
ENTERPRISES.
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