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Going beyond SD-WANs in 2023: Rethinking Wide Area Networks

For a number of years, the discussion has been about digital transformation, increasing automation, SD-WANs, data protection, security, and every type of cloud. In 2023, these are still likely to play an important role in organisations and in data centres and now multi-cloud and hybrid cloud are driving changes in data centre networks. This is to better manage new security rollouts, introduce new levels of automation and to also help push forward evolving net-ops strategies.

Find out why organisations should go beyond SD-WANs in 2023, and rethink Wide Area Networks (WANs), by reading the complete article. Also available on the following publications: SDC Channel Insights, and Digitalisation World. 

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. Author/journalist: Graham Jarvis.

Why Organizations Need to Love their Data

Picture source: Bridgeworks Ltd - The WAN Acceleration Champions

On St. Valentine’s Day, minds and hearts will turn toward loved ones. All that love also creates data and e-commerce and retail store revenue. In the UK, Finder.com reports that £1.37 billion was spent on Valentine’s Day in 2022. Author Reemul Balla reckoned that 76 percent of Brits (40 million) celebrated the occasion. Over in the US, the National Retail Federation, described as the world’s largest retail trade association, has an annual survey done by Prosper Insights & Analytics.

Find out why your organisation should love its data, and that of its customers, by reading the complete article.

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. Author/journalist: Graham Jarvis. Published on 14th February 2023. 

Why Santa’s elves implemented WAN acceleration in his data center

Santa and his elvish data center team have had to consider all solutions to ensure that the Christmas season goes smoothly in 2022.

Find out out they tackled WAN latency and packet loss while increasing bandwidth utilisation, read the article. 

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. Published by Data Center Dynamics and bylined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. Published on 25th December 2022. 

Black Friday: Why WAN Acceleration Could Make A Difference

Data is very much behind the success of Black Friday – particularly for e-commerce operations. So it’s no surprise that new research from Oxylabs, in collaboration with CensusWide, reveals that 85% of ecommerce organisations have chosen to make more significant use of data to attract customers. In response to their survey of over 1,000 UK and US-based senior decision makers, including CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Chief Data Officers, Heads of Business Intelligence and Heads of Data & Analytics, they comment that this “…highlights how businesses are using newer, more advanced forms of technology, such as web scraping, to get ahead of the competition.”

Read the complete article on Digitalisation World, or on Bridgeworks' website. 

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications. Published by Digitalisation World. Bylined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks Ltd. Approximate date: 22nd November 2022

Overcoming latency: Witch WAN for data acceleration?

The witches have used WAN Optimization in the past, but they have found that it doesn’t live up to their expectations.

Halloween is here again, and the witches are hard at work. Yet, their Wide Area Networks are suffering from jitter and packet loss caused by the specter of latency. It’s more trick than treat – even when working remotely, operations are hindered by slow WANs. Backing up and restoring data takes ages to complete, making disaster recovery and service continuity hard to achieve.

The three witches have decided to meet again, but their autonomous brooms have also been hit by technical errors. They rely very much on being able to access the Internet, virtual private networks (VPNs), edge computing and cloud networks. The war in Ukraine is adding an additional challenge, so the witches need to discuss how to implement Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).

Read the complete article. 

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications. Published by Data Center Dynamics, and bylined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks.

WAN Acceleration of Edge Computing

6th September 2022 - David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks speaks to Computing Security Magazine about the benefits of WAN Acceleration in edge computing.

The effects of the pandemic over the past couple of years has hastened the move towards digital transformation of many companies – and to the cloud in many cases. Organisations concerned for the safety of their personnel and what shape organisations will look like in the future, moved from a traditional capital expenditure (CapEx) model, to a work-from-home and operational expenditure- (OpEx) based SAAS model. At the same time, there is a push for Internet of Things (IoT) devices to monitor and manage many aspects of our daily lives.

This article is also found on Document Manager.

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. 6th September 2022

Healthcare organisations: Invest in network upgrades or WAN acceleration?

With data volumes increasing, healthcare organisations are having to handle, move and back-up growing amounts of data.

Even though there is a shift to mobile networks, SD-WANs and to edge computing, there is still a need to find ways to analyse, securely back up, and restore terabytes of data from a wide array of different formats – from X-rays to MRI scans. Read the complete article...

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications. Published by Health Tech World on 6th September 2022, and by-lined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks.

Automating SD-WANs? Why you need WAN acceleration

When tech encourages more data, you have to increase your performance.

Software-defined WANs are a great technology and Robert Sturt, Managing Director of Netify, argues that they’re “the most fundamental change in networking since MPLS took over from frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode.” He believes SD-WANs are the beginning of the technology stack journey and their integration with artificial intelligence and automation represents the “next phase of capitalising on extensive insights and data already generated by SD-WAN systems." [TechTarget] An example is the use of cloud AI with SD-WANs to reduce false positives (FRP), an intrusion protection system.

Discover why SD-WANs benefit from WAN Acceleration, read the complete article. 

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. Published by Data Center Dynamics and bylined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks on 4th July 2022.

5G Should Accelerate Autonomous Communication

The emergence of 5G is expected to bring forth the exploration of new horizons to connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), as well as to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication.

Erik Varney, managing director of telematics for industrial IoT and automotive at Verizon Business, says that convergence is the major trend that’s occurring within the new generation of vehicles – especially electric and autonomous. He said: “With the new generation of mobile technology, 5G, people might ask, when are we going to see the real adoption of autonomous vehicles, and when are we going to see those capabilities come to the regular consumer?”

“Most autonomous vehicles and technology today cost a lot of money and aren’t really worth it for the average consumer. Soon, though, I expect to see a trend toward more availability and eventual ubiquity of connectivity vehicle technology.” He adds: “Connectivity speeds are upshifting by a factor of 10, and you start to think about what you can do with that kind of bandwidth and throughput – machine learning, for instance, and things really make a big difference with autonomous driving and remote driving for that matter, that can really move the needle when it comes to autonomous technology.” So, he not only sees the next generation of solutions coming to life but also predicts “you’re going to see some really interesting things take place with the advent of these newer technologies, LiDAR and others, and bringing them down to a more reproducible range when it comes to cost”.

Find out why 5G should accelerate autonomous communication, read the complete article. 

Client: InformaTech, published by TU Automotive 6th April 2022.

WAN acceleration: Why cloud automation isn’t enough in 2022

David Trossell, Bridgeworks CEO, features in this ITPro Portal about the increasing need for technology to support cloud computing initiatives in 2022.

For a number of years, every company and every person has become increasingly dependent on cloud computing in its many disguises. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in many organisations, aided by work from home orders; and stay at home orders have created shifts in purchasing behaviour, away from the High Street or Main Street to e-commerce.

Brian McHugh writes, in his blog for ‘IT Automation Without Boundaries’, on Gartner’s IT Automation Trends for 2022 for Advanced Systems Concepts: “The pandemic has permanently disrupted the way we work, shop and access services. In response, enterprise organisations will continue to shift towards digital-first business models and cloud-native operations in 2022, with big implications for IT automation.”

Read the complete article. 

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. Originally published in IT Pro Portal, which has morphed into IT Pro. Published circa. 30th March 2022.