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Migrating to Next Generation Firewall

A Sundata Security Case Study This state wide organisation was experiencing significant network performance issues as a result of an out dated and failing firewall. By migrating to Palo Alto Networks VM-100 next generation Firewall, the customer has improved responsiveness while also addressing a number of security vulnerabilities. They now enjoy best practice perimeter security…

Implications of the App Economy, Big Data and server workloads…

These days it seems there is an app for everything. It is easy to forget that the Apple App Store - which revolutionised how we consume software - was opened on July 10, 2008, with an initial 500 applications available. As of 2018, between Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft there are now in excess of 5 million…

Disruption, Volatility and Divisiveness are the new normal for workloads – not just in politics!

Like it or not disruption and change is here to stay… In an increasingly polarised world, where we are defined as either being in one side or the other, it can be quite hard to embrace different points of view. We are divided, not just in our opinions on the world in general, but also…

The face of customer engagement is changing…

We are starting to see Digital Twins not just as representations of intelligent systems and processes but also as Human-Like Avatars that enable people to engage with knowledge bases and Artificial Intelligence systems. Siri and Alexa have revolutionised voice control and our expectations for engaging with data, understanding records and contextualising information. Consequently, server workloads…

Did you know that 60 seconds of video is the equivalent of 1.8 million words?

Well according to James McQuivey of Forrester research in his paper “How video will take over the world” back in 2008, video was set to become the pervasive medium. His prediction has come true, in that today video is the fastest, most convenient way to come up to speed on practically any subject. Communication has moved on…