Network World Daily News Alert AM | | | | | Potential SD-WAN savings can be broken down into hard and soft savings. Hard savings come from new connectivity contracts, including reduction in the use of MPLS in favor of less expensive options, such as broadband or cellular. Soft savings come from ensuring quality of service connections to cloud platforms or other hosted applications; centrally managing and ensuring comprehensive security across the WAN; ensuring high availability connections to WAN sites; and ease of management related to use of a cloud-managed SD-WAN. Read More ▶ | | | | | Intel formally announced a new class of Xeon Scalable processors that in many ways leapfrogs the best AMD has to offer. Read More ▶ | | | Jamf Now is a cloud-based solution that delivers Apple management and security with just a few minutes of setup. Read More ▶ | | | As organizations look to next-gen architectures like multi-cloud and SDN, network professionals are getting a leg up with software-fluent certifications. Are they worth it? Read More ▶ | | | | | The Wi-Fi Alliance has introduced the first major security improvement to Wi-Fi in about 14 years: WPA3. The most significant additions to the new Wi-Fi security protocol are greater protection for simple passwords, individualized encryption for Personal and Open networks, and more secure encryption for Enterprise networks. Read More ▶ | | | The U.S. Supreme court's refusal to remove a lower court's decision to uphold net neutrality rules could help supporters in future legal battles if the policy is re-introduced. 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).
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