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Beyond the Thin Branch: Move Network Functions to Cloud, Says Leading Analyst

CATO Networks

Retailers, financial services firms, and other kinds of companies want to become more agile in their branch strategies: be able to light up, move, and shut down branches quickly and easily. One sticking point has always been the branch network stack: deploying, configuring, managing, and retrieving the router, firewall, WAN optimizer, etc.,

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Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next

CATO Networks

These were largely untouched by the cloud and dominated by appliance-based solutions (routers, firewalls, etc.). Hundreds of manufacturing, engineering, technology, legal, and financial organizations deployed Cato in full production. Gur Shatz, Catos co-founder, and I come from the networking and network security domains.

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Fight Edge Vendor Sprawl

CATO Networks

But just as with the branch equipment stack, there is real cost, both financial and operational, to managing each last-mile provider relationship. As noted in an earlier post , most folks deploying an SD-WAN want to flatten that unsightly pile of appliances in the branch network closet.

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Eye-Opening Results from Forrester’s Cato SASE Total Economic Impact Report

CATO Networks

We decided it was time to quantify Cato SASEs real-world financial benefit with a recognized, well-structured methodology, so we commissioned a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study with the consulting arm of the leading analyst firm Forrester. The description of the five decision-makers is in the table below. with 40 sites across the U.S.,

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My Take on Web3 and THAT Letter

Software Architecture Zen

The letter urged the recipients to resist pressure from digital asset industry financiers, lobbyists, and boosters and to take an approach that ensures the technology is deployed in genuine service to the needs of ordinary citizens . In other words, the use case for Bitcoin was to do away with banks and other financial institutions.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

For e.g., if accessing file system over WebDAV or FTP has performance issues, and it will take 4 hours to fix, then for those 4 hours, you can just kill FTP/WebDAV at kong/firewall and ask customers to use web UI or other mechanisms to work. Which firewall product do you use? Which routers do you use? Why have you succeeded?