Wide Area Network Optimisation Reinvented?
25 June 2016
By Newton Braga
Wide Area Network (WAN) optimisation is not new in the IT industry. Vendors have delivered, for quite some time now, solutions deploying devices at the end of each office/network connection, aiming to address WAN service expenses, improve response times over WAN links, maximise return on investment (ROI) for WAN bandwidth and reduce IT operational costs in satellite locations.
But we are now seeing the start of a new type of WAN optimisation market, delivering what is called software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) functionality. Where the usual WAN connections used special proprietary hardware technology, a SD-WAN solution moves the network...
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optimisation, optimization, roi, sd-wan, wan
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Audiobooks – Back to the Future?
18 April 2016
by Newton Braga
Audio-books make the fastest growing segment in the publishing industry. With some audio-books employing different narrators to deliver the story, it resends some elderlies back in time, to the times of radio drama, a purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio, initiated in the 1920s and a leading international popular entertainment in the 1940s.
In 2015 we had 43,000 new audio-books released, a small increase from the 36,000 released in 2014 and well above the 20,000 new audio-books launched in 2013.
The global audio-book industry is evaluated at US$2.8 Billions, offering to customers new distribution models, such as...
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audio-books, digital, ebooks, education
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The Future CIO or no-future CIO?
1 October 2015
by Newton Braga
Businesses are constantly changing, digital disruption is inherent within different industries, and CIO / IT leaders are struggling to be relevant and agile to respond to increased business demands for IT innovation, digital transformation and responsiveness while maintaining proper governance of IT within an enterprise.
Information technology (IT) within organisations was in the 1970s a centralised data-processing department, with straightforward governance and structure. As the delivery of benefits to the enterprise increased, IT continuously became unable to meet the growing demand, as it enabled innovation, agility, lower cost, interoperability and leveraged intellectual capital.
By the 1980s enterprises...
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business, cio, strategy
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