WEI Tech Exchange

How Can AI Solutions Bring Network Operations Efficiency To IT Teams?

By Victor Fabian |   Apr 09, 2024

Imagine this: you’re leading an important video conference presentation for a long-sought-after prospect. Suddenly, the call stutters, pixelates, and then drops entirely. To no fault of your own, your dynamite presentation and prepared notes are of no use as the prospect is left with a sour taste. This frustrating scenario, which many have experienced either during a virtual sales pitch or during internal team meetings, exposes the faults of a complex network environment.

Redefining Healthcare Security With A Single-Vendor SASE Solution

By Mike Thweatt |   Mar 19, 2024

In the modern healthcare ecosystem, data plays a critical role. From storing patient records and managing finances to facilitating research and developing treatment plans, this information forms the lifeblood of the industry. It goes beyond the common data pulls for medical histories and financial details, as it also encompasses vital research findings, drug trial results, and personalized treatment plans – all essential for individual well-being and scientific advancement. However, this treasure trove attracts attackers, threatening patient privacy and trust, hindering care, and compromising the entire healthcare system.

Five Best Practices In Building An Agile Data Center Network

By Patrick Gamble |   Mar 19, 2024

Traditionally seen as physical rooms filled with activity, data centers have become the silent workhorses of the digital world. They house critical infrastructure, from basic communication tools to advanced applications and cloud services. However, with growing demands, how we manage these networks needs to be transformed.

Network Operations: The Six Key Benefits Of Intent-Based Networking

By Patrick Gamble |   Mar 04, 2024

A recent Gartner report identified simplifying and automating IT infrastructure as the top strategic priority for businesses. This shift is driven by the limitations of data centers often burdened with complex, short-term solutions that sacrifice long-term reliability. The result? Slow innovation, frustrating user experiences, and costly downtime. By embracing automation and optimization, businesses can streamline processes, reduce costs, and unlock new opportunities to drive them forward in today’s dynamic market.

Master Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape With These Best Industry Practices

By Greg LaBrie |   Feb 13, 2024

As a business owner, you’ve finally stepped into the digital world by setting up an online store or deploying a remote workforce model. Here’s the deal: going digital means you are prioritizing end-user flexibility, but how far up is cybersecurity on your list? Just like locking up your brick-and-mortar store or office at night, safeguarding all digital assets and user information stored in the cloud is critically important.

How HPE Aruba Networking Solutions Drive Modernized Retail

By Victor Fabian |   Feb 06, 2024

As customer expectations and operational challenges change, retailers need to transform their business goals accordingly. Cloud-based technologies, like software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, offer flexibility, scalability, and efficiency to facilitate this transformation. Yet, utilizing cloud services introduces network and security concerns, including performance issues, increased attack surface areas, and damaging data breaches. These days, it is no wonder IoT is sometimes referred to as Internet of Threats as there is a higher reliance on mobile and IoT devices, leading to higher bandwidth usage and increased data. 

The Power of AI-Driven Networking for Retail Enterprises

By Greg LaBrie |   Jan 18, 2024

In today's high-stakes retail landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires innovative solutions that enhance the customer experience, streamline operations, and provide reliable connectivity. This is where AI-driven networking solutions from industry leaders Juniper Networks and Aruba Networks come into play. By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence, these companies are revolutionizing the way retailers approach their networking infrastructure, delivering exceptional results and driving business success.

How AI-Driven SD-WAN Can Boost Retailers' Digital Transformation

By Greg LaBrie |   Jun 20, 2023

The retail industry has rapidly changed in recent years, embracing offline, online, and hybrid shopping as the new norm. Technology has thus become an essential factor in the success of retailers, which puts significant pressure on them to keep up with the latest tools and reconsider their approaches. To align their current infrastructure with the evolving landscape, retailers must focus on networking as a central aspect of their efforts. This entails an aggressive adoption of digital transformation through cloud computing and omnichannel retailing, modernization of inventory management, and implementation of advanced data loss prevention systems.

How to Connect & Protect for Zero Trust Security

By Greg LaBrie |   May 25, 2023

Do you trust your network? Performance may be in an optimal place, and workplace operations are thankful for that. But what about security? ‘Zero Trust’ is a practice every IT leader and decision maker should be educated on as more and more organizations have realized that all attacks don’t originate from the other side of the firewall. Attacks can be launched from anywhere, including within the network itself. Network administrators must always operate under the assumption that their network has already been breached. And sadly, for some reading this article, that may be the case.

Four Significant Ways Retail Businesses Adopt Experience-First Networking

By Greg LaBrie |   May 16, 2023

Delivering a personalized and efficient shopping experience to customers is crucial in today's competitive retail landscape. Whether customers are shopping online or offline, achieving this goal requires retail organizations to take experience-first networking strategies. To successfully create this in a hybrid cloud era, retailers must meet these four key requirements: 

• Setting up a heightened Wi-Fi connection for employees
• Optimizing location-based services
• Establishing a reliable network infrastructure
• Forming a unified data and connection security between retailers and customers