Many of today’s applications, whether they involve cloud or on-premise datacenter, could not function without network infrastructure. Through network infrastructure allows data to move easily between distributed locations.

Using next generation network infrastructure technology such as Software Defined Network (SDN) supports moving workloads around a network quickly. For instance, dividing a virtual network into sections, using a technique called network functions virtualization (NFV), allows telecommunications providers to move customer services to less expensive servers or even to the customer’s own servers. Service providers can use a virtual network infrastructure to shift workloads from private to public cloud infrastructures as necessary, and to make new customer services available instantly. SDN also makes it easier for any network to flex and scale as network administrators add or remove virtual machines, whether those machines are on-premises or in the cloud.

Because of the speed and flexibility offered by SDN, it is able to support emerging trends and technologies such as edge computing and the Internet of Things, which require transferring data quickly and easily between remote sites.

Enterpise Wireless LAN / WiFi is a workhorse and the centerpiece of your IT infrastructure. It provides wireless connectivity to hundreds, if not thousands, of internal and external users, 24 hours x 7 days. It's a big, complicated, expensive job to keep this Wireless LAN secure, stable and speedy at all times.

Every modern business needs a robust wireless network. WiFi for all is no longer a luxury, but an expectation. And lightning fast WiFi, such as WiFi 6, or known as IEEE 802.11ax ? That's becoming an expectation too. The modern workplace has been transformed by all this speed, connectivity and collaboration.

Having a robust network will provide your business with:

• Greater workforce flexibility & more remote work options

• Higher worker productivity and satisfaction

• Improved customer experiences

• Scalability as your business grows

The world has changed, security is not the same as before. Today’s risk factors and threats are not the same, nor as simple as they used to be. New emerging technologies and possibilities, such as Internet of Things (IoT), change a lot about how companies operate, what their focus is and their goals. It is important for all security professionals to understand business objectives and try to support them by implementing proper controls that can be simply justified for stakeholders and linked to the business risk. There are a lot of devices to secure network and systems behind it, such as: Enterprise Network Firewall, Unified threat management (UTM), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Anti-DDoS, Reverse Proxy, Antivirus, Web Application Firewall, etc.

Enterprise Network Firewalls secure traffic bidirectionally across networks. Although these firewalls are primarily deployed as hardware appliances, clients are increasingly deploying virtual appliance firewalls, cloud-native firewalls from infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers, and firewall as a service (FWaaS) offerings hosted directly by vendors. Capabilities of network firewalls include: Application awareness and control Intrusion detection and prevention Advanced malware detection Logging and reporting

As cloud computing becomes pervasive, virtualization has emerged as an invaluable tool for running applications as a virtual machine or even application as containerized application and driving innovation in a cloud environment. Using hypervisor technology, companies can deploy applications very fast, reliable, and easy to manage. Since a hypervisor is a software layer that enables one host computer to simultaneously support multiple VMs, hypervisors are a key element of the technology that makes cloud computing possible. Hypervisors make cloud-based applications available to users across a virtual environment while still enabling IT to maintain control over a cloud environment’s infrastructure, applications and sensitive data.

Digital transformation and rising customer expectations are driving greater reliance on innovative applications. In response, many enterprises are migrating their virtual machines to the cloud. However, having to rewrite every existing application for the cloud can consume precious IT resources and lead to infrastructure silos. Fortunately, as an integral part of a virtualization platform, a hypervisor can help migrate applications to the cloud quickly. As a result, enterprises can reap the cloud’s many benefits, including reduced hardware expenditures, increased accessibility and greater scalability, for a faster return on investment.

The drive to improve IT agility is spurring organizations to explore new data center architectures. Organizations need to accelerate delivery of technology services while retaining control over IT, minimizing complexity and reducing costs.

Simply put, the processes for procuring and deploying traditional infrastructure are too slow and cumbersome. Business groups and software developers can’t wait weeks or months for new physical infrastructure to be purchased and provisioned. To capitalize on changing marketplace conditions and meet customer expectations, teams need resources in hours or minutes.

A software-defined data center architecture can help significantly improve IT agility. By pooling infrastructure resources, standardizing management tools across infrastructure layers, and enabling policy-driven provisioning, an SDDC can help IT groups respond more quickly to new requests for IT resources. At the same time, an SDDC enables IT groups to retain control over provisioning, reduce costs and establish a path to application modernization.

Key SDDC architectural components include:

1. Compute virtualization, where virtual machines (VMs)—including their operating systems, CPUs, memory, and software—reside on cloud servers. Compute virtualization allows users to create software implementations of computers that can be spun up or spun down as needed, decreasing provisioning time.

2. Network virtualization, where the network infrastructure servicing your VMs can be provisioned without worrying about the underlying hardware. Network infrastructure needs—telecommunications, firewalls, subnets, routing, administration, DNS, etc.—are configured inside your cloud SDDC on the vendor’s abstracted hardware. No network hardware assembly is required.

3. Storage virtualization, where disk storage is provisioned from the SDDC vendor’s storage pool. You get to choose your storage types, based on your needs and costs. You can quickly add storage to a VM when needed.

4. Management and automation software. SDDCs use management and automation software to keep business critical functions working around the clock, reducing the need for IT manpower. Remote management and automation is delivered via a software platform accessible from any suitable location, via APIs or Web browser access.

With the emergence of Industry 4.0, analyzing data in supply chain, manufacturing and distribution operations is becoming critical to keep pace with the on-demand economy. The macro use cases of tracking and locationing gives extensibility to a manufacturer to incrementally drive change within its environments. These use cases, enabled by IoT technologies, give manufacturers the insights and ability to control the flow of their assets, goods and people in real-time. As a result, manufacturers are well-positioned to streamline in the following three main areas:

1. Assets: They have the tools they need to ensure assets are available when and where they are needed, and that they’re in good condition to be used.

2. Goods: They can make decisions that help to reduce factory downtime, exceptions and labor costs using accurate data, such as historical trends, current business stats and predictive analytics; they don’t have to rely on “best guess” estimates or gut instincts anymore. IoT also helps measure and quantify performance to drive continuous workflow improvements.

3. People: IoT provides automated recordings of arrivals and departures to gain more accurate operational data, which helps ensure employees are in the right place at the right time – and that helps increase safety.

In our technological era, there has been a tremendous increase in families building their own custom  smart homes, otherwise known as properties that are equipped with security, home automation, and round-the-clock surveillance. The development of technology has also led to an increase in the variety of cameras homeowners can use to protect their homes, with the popular being security cameras and surveillance cameras.

Security cameras, also known as CCTV cameras, are used to convey signals from one particular place to a monitor situated at a distance, whereas surveillance cameras normally work on IP networks which link the camera from the remote area to the assigned security location. Security cameras are something many of us take for granted in our everyday lives, and surveillance cameras have gained great significance in various sectors because of their benefits.