The network is a roadblock, but SDN can clear a path

Tom Allen
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Cloud adoption is climbing, but legacy networks do not lend themselves to agile working. Going virtual is a way around the bottleneck

The cloud is key to digital transformation, enabling on-demand services and the migration of workloads off-site - but its agility has not been matched by today's wide area network (WAN) infrastruct...

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