The rapid transition to cloud computing that we are seeing today is unprecedented. The move has been rapid and it has had a powerful impact on our entire modern society. Digital resources and data are available at the touch of a screen. The cloud allows for scalability that was unthinkable just a few years ago and enables for product evolution at a rate that can keep pace with users and marketplace demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result, many businesses have quickly\nmoved away from their traditional networking hardware and in exchange for cloud\nnetworks. Rather than upgrading a data center, they\u2019re building platforms in\nthe cloud that are faster, cheaper, and essentially maintenance-free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, for this transition to truly be effective, your new cloud resources need to be available equally to everyone. And the last roadblock to efficiency is probably sitting in your office right now. Many small branch offices are still stuck with a traditional WAN router and MPLS setup that forces all traffic through a central nexus point at the network core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like the hub and spokes of a wheel, this model\nchokes off the performance of critical applications and reduces access to\nresources. It can also overwhelm data centers with increasing volumes of cloud\ntraffic. As long as your company relies on this type of centralized model, it\nwill prevent you from fully transitioning to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WAN routers introduce critical roadblocks that\nprevent your branch users from fully embracing all that the cloud has to offer.\nFor example, critical business applications run on layer 7, which means that\ntraffic shaping, connection steering, and connectivity management all need to\nhappen at that layer. But a WAN router operates at layers 3 and 4, with any\nlayer 7 functionality operating as an afterthought. This slows down\nfunctionality and provides suboptimal connectivity, even if the traffic wasn\u2019t\nbeing routed back to the core network through a static MPLS connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Updated networking solutions from Axigent Technologies can simplify your transition to the cloud and make sure that your employees are able to enjoy the full range of benefits that cloud connectivity has to offer \u2013 without having to choose between performance and protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The rapid transition to cloud computing that we are seeing today is unprecedented. The move has been rapid and it has had a powerful impact on our entire modern society. Digital resources and data are available at the touch of a screen. The cloud allows for scalability that was unthinkable just a few years ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6,5,7,9,8,11,10],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-amarillo-computer-company","tag-computer-company","tag-computer-company-near-me","tag-information-technology","tag-managed-it","tag-managed-it-company","tag-managed-it-services"],"yoast_head":"\n