Why are SD-WANs taking off? Because they are secure, affordable and easy to use

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Network World WAN Alert Aug 30, 2016 Why are SD-WANs taking off? Because they are secure, affordable and easy to use The top five reasons you need to consider the tech Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Distil Networks uses device fingerprints to detect malicious web bots • Bringing flexibility to the WAN • Service chaining, not box chaining, in the WAN • SD-WAN takes advantage of the 100x MPLS/Internet price gap • The IEEE Standards Association initiates three new Ethernet projects • US says transfer of internet governance will go ahead on Oct. 1 • VR, machine learning drive tech job market Video/Webcast: Unisys Accelerating Digital IT Transformation with Secure Cloud Join Unisys VP of Cloud and Infrastructure services Allen McMichael and Global Director of Service Management Andrew Harsch as they discuss the current issues clients are facing and how you can transform your existing legacy landscape to a secure software defined enterprise with the use of secure cloud to better react, support and innovate to become a more digital IT operation. Read More ▶ Distil Networks uses device fingerprints to detect malicious web bots Web applications are increasingly being subjected to automated threats such as click fraud, comment spam, content scraping, and more. Bot detection and mitigation can close these vulnerabilities. Read More ▶ Bringing flexibility to the WAN Business is constantly in motion and enterprise networks must be more flexible to meet shifting demands and opportunities. Software-based networks surpass the limitations of monolithic hardware to support business in motion. Read More ▶ Service chaining, not box chaining, in the WAN How SD-WAN is enabling a new mindset for adding services to enterprise networks Read More ▶ SD-WAN takes advantage of the 100x MPLS/Internet price gap You can bridge that chasm without worrying about the downsides of inferior Internet reliability and predictability Read More ▶ The IEEE Standards Association initiates three new Ethernet projects 25G over single-mode fiber, 50/100/200G, and 200/400G Read More ▶ US says transfer of internet governance will go ahead on Oct. 1 The U.S. will go ahead with its plan to hand over oversight of the internet's domain name system functions to a multistakeholder body on Oct. 1, despite fierce opposition from some lawmakers and advocacy groups. Read More ▶ VR, machine learning drive tech job market Demand for virtual reality experts and machine learning engineers is spiking as enterprise adoption of these technologies grows. Read More ▶ White Paper: Pure Storage 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for Solid-State Arrays Gartner has done the research for you. Help your organization make an informed IT decision regarding flash storage. Read the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays to gain insights regarding the future state of the storage market and an independent vendor comparison. Also learn why Pure Storage achieved the furthest overall position for completeness of vision. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS 10 sci-fi technologies we are close to having Linux at 25: A retrospective Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Cisco boots Nutanix from partner program 2. The hidden cause of slow Internet and how to fix 3. The discerning nerd's guide to Raspberry Pi hardware (2016 mid-year edition) 4. 19 free cloud storage options 5. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac 6. 5 security practices hackers say make their lives harder 7. Cisco starts patching firewall devices against NSA-linked exploit 8. Fact-checking the fact-checkers: Snopes.com gets an 'A' 9. Mozilla launches free website security scanning service 10. iPhone 7's headphone jack removal draws critique from Woz

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