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Aug 2024
MS, PS or BS
There is not a single organisation out there that will not see the effects of a security breach, from just a minor inconvenience, some costly downtime or irreparable reputational damage, having your data or network breached is not something to take lightly.
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Jan 2023
The Move to SASE: Four Critical Steps to Take
The move to SASE requires careful design and planning since enterprises have already invested heavily in the hardware and software that underpin their existing datacentre-oriented model.
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Jan 2023
The Skinner on SASE: Why it’s primed to secure the cloud-first enterprise
SASE tightly integrates software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) capabilities with network security functions such as Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).
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Nov 2022
Market Guide: Single Vendor SASE
We note the first market guide on Single-Vendor SASE that was recently released by Gartner and we're making it available for you to download for free.
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Aug 2021
The branch of the future requires a robust SASE architecture
Today, enterprises need flexibility at every layer of the network and application stack. Users need secure, authenticated access no matter where they are: at the office, on a mobile device, or working from home. The changing shape of these network perimeters is phasing out traditional VPNs and driving the adoption...
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Jul 2021
Surviving your WAN Transformation
With SD-WAN maturing from a concept to now firmly being entrenched as a bona-fide network solution, a different set of challenges have started to emerge for enterprise businesses. On the one hand, for those who have yet to embark on their SD-WAN journey, there is now an entirely different vendor...
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Jul 2021
How to survive your datacentre transformation
With remote working now the new normal many organisations are rapidly transitioning their workloads and business applications to public cloud and SaaS environments often working with multiple cloud providers, Internet Service Providers and Colo operators. There are a few careful considerations that organisations need to navigate when entering this transformation...
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Jun 2021
Transformation Survival Kit
Survive and thrive in your transformation journey! Relentless change is the new normal and digital technologies are redefining the way the world works and lives. Business leaders must continuously transform their organizations to ensure relevance, efficiency, and competitive advantage. Technology is increasingly indivisible from the business, and frictionless interactions, pace...
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Feb 2021
Sendmarc Email Security & Protection
Our newest security partner, Sendmarc, offers email protection from phishing attacks and email spoofing. Sendmarc helps protect your staff, your customers, and your brand from email phishing and impersonation attacks – ensuring that only you can send secure email from your domain.
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Feb 2021
Preventing phishing emails: Are we missing the point?
Fraudulent emails sent by someone pretending to be legitimate in order to trick you into divulging personal details like banking details or passwords is nothing new. But despite how familiar we become with the concept, email phishing continues to be on the increase with each passing year.
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Feb 2021
Changing user behaviour to prevent phishing attacks
Many businesses don’t realise that there are technical solutions such as DMARC that can prevent fraudulent emails being sent from their domains in the first place. If this is done properly, then educating employees about potential spoof emails becomes a secondary priority.
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Feb 2021
An Unprecedented Phishing Pandemic
As if Covid-19 wasn’t enough of a crisis, the number of cyber attacks on frontline healthcare responders has surged at the same time as the global pandemic – trending upwards almost entirely in line with case numbers.
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Nov 2020
Next-generation networking solutions
Are the high costs, poor performance and inflexibility of localized legacy networks like MPLS making it more and more difficult for you to deliver on your digital transformation requirements?
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Nov 2020
It’s time to Transform your Network Infrastructure!
The Information Technology (IT) industry is in the midst of its largest shift in history with the move to cloud, powered by the need to drive digital transformation initiatives now more topical than ever before. These initiatives are transforming all organizations with Multi-cloud becoming key to IT strategy, as organizations...
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Nov 2020
How Egress Security Has Evolved and Why You Should Care
In the traditional on-premise era, enterprises owned the underlying infrastructure and had layers of security built into their network architecture. Because of this layered security model, they could centrally define security mechanisms to control the internet egress traffic effectively. However, in public cloud environments, things work differently. The networks and...
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Nov 2020
AWS VPC Ingress Routing
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new networking enhancement called Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Ingress Routing. Amazon VPC Ingress Routing is a service that helps customers simplify the integration of network and security appliances within their network topology.
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Nov 2020
Architecting Your Global Multi-Cloud Transit Network
When choosing a transit network architecture for your cloud environment there are a few things we have learned that customers care about. Transit’s own ability to provide robust networking connectivity is important, however, it is just one dimension of the end-state architectural requirement.
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Aug 2020
Intelys optimises Logistics WANs
In today’s customer orientated, digitised society, transportation & logistics are under increasing pressure to deliver quality customer service and find innovative ways to optimise their operations while remaining competitive.
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Aug 2020
New Citrix SD-WAN 110 devices: A true branch-in-a-box option
How does Citrix SD-WAN create a reliable WAN for high-performance app, desktop, and data delivery.
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Aug 2020
Intelys SD-WAN eBook: Supercharge your digital workspace
How does Citrix SD-WAN create a reliable WAN for high-performance app, desktop, and data delivery.
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Aug 2020
Security Options to Protect Resources at the WAN Edge
Applications are shifting to the cloud, and the large-scale adoption of Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack and a plethora of file and media sharing technologies are becoming the new normal. Organisations with medium to large branch footprints need to ensure that the branch edge is sufficiently secure and that the management...
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Jun 2020
The Insurance Industry | Importance of Uptime, Scalability and Security
In today’s customer-orientated, digitised society, insurers are under increasing pressure to deliver a quality, consistent client experience, find innovative ways to optimise and secure their operations, whilst remaining competitive. In this post we will outline some of the key characteristics of the insurance industry, the challenges facing the industry...
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Jun 2020
The Automotive Industry | Adding Value in a Changing Technological World
The automotive industry is facing new and pressing challenges. Globalisation, individualisation, digitisation and increasing competition are changing the face of the industry as we know it. In this post we will outline some of the key characteristics of the automotive industry, the challenges facing the industry from a technological (networking...
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Jun 2020
SD-WAN and Integrated Edge Security at the Branch
One of the biggest drivers related to SD-WAN adoption for companies across the globe is the continued shift in the adoption of large-scale Cloud and SaaS services. The ability to break out certain traffic directly at the branch via one or more internet-based circuits is a key performance benefit of...
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Jun 2020
Simplify Migration to Hybrid Cloud with Citrix SD-WAN
The global Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated many companies’ moving of their workloads out of private or colocation facilities, into the cloud. This shift is well overdue as cloud infrastructure is incredibly resilient, and importantly, always-on. As with anything, migrating workloads is not without its challenges. Here are some key challenges...
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Jun 2020
From our partners: Citrix SD-WAN and Zscaler deliver cloud security with easy deployment
Public cloud spending is on the rise and SaaS currently constitutes the largest cloud computing spend. It shows no signs of slowing. This presents new challenges with your network, however, further congesting bandwidth-constrained links like legacy MPLS between branches and the data center. Local internet breakout improves the user experience...
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May 2020
Intelys' SD WAN Webinar Series: An Overview
Intelys recently hosted a series of Webinars to help guide enterprises in navigating the new WAN’s that will be required to service their users in a new normal. Currently we are seeing a massive shift in the way that data is being consumed. This is being fueled by the...
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Apr 2020
CMH Group – ideally positioned for the consumption of cloud services
Combined Motor Holdings Limited is an investment holding company with well-established roots in the retail motor sector representing many leading motor vehicle brands in South Africa. CMH operates their business through their centralised dealer management and car rental systems. As a result, network performance, resilience and site availability are critical...
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Jan 2020
Choosing the SD-WAN solution that complements your business
When comparing MPLS VPN and SD-WAN solutions, people fail to mention the one true complication with SD-WAN solutions: finding the right product for your business. Why is choosing a SD-WAN solution more complicated than the legacy MPLS options? When looking at a MPLS VPN solution, it’s simple: you get...
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Dec 2019
Intelys helps PPS overcome connectivity issues and reduce costs by implementing Citrix SD-WAN
South Africa has some of the most expensive bandwidth in the world. Coupled with frequently unreliable connectivity and unpredictable speeds, this poses a challenge for multi-branch businesses that run multiple applications.
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Oct 2019
Citrix Fortifies SD-WAN With Palo Alto Firewalls
By Tobias Mann Citrix is stoking a wall of fire around its SD-WAN castle and Palo Alto Networks is fueling the flames. The two companies announced a new partnership that puts Palo Alto’s virtualized firewall technology in the hands of Citrix SD-WAN customers looking for additional security. Citrix claims...
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Sep 2019
Do you trust your SD-WAN firewall?
By Elisa Caredio In my conversations with customers about digital transformation and the shift to SaaS and cloud, two questions tend to come up: “Do you have an integrated security solution?” and “How reliable or effective is it?” Frankly, “security” is something we all search for in our daily lives...
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Sep 2019
Citrix SD-WAN in an Azure Virtual WAN world
You only have to look around you to see how the service delivery landscape is changing. Organisations of all sizes are now choosing to effectively outsource service delivery for a wide range of the tools that users need to go about their day. With anything from Line of Business shadow...
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Sep 2019
PPS transforms their network with Intelys and Citrix SD-WAN
PPS, a Johannesburg-based financial services and healthcare provider, was experiencing issues of visibility with their existing MPLS provider. Additionally, the cost of MPLS was exorbitant for their 24 offices, so they were in the market for technologies to bring down the cost, increase reliability and give them optimal site availability. Speed...
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May 2019
The Data Centres have landed: A new era of SD-WAN hyper-connectivity in SA
When it comes to growing a global connectivity footprint, it seems that all eyes are on Africa these days. According to cloud services company Agilitude, Africa will see rapid growth in its cloud service adoption over the next five years, with a forecast of 42% growth year-on-year. It comes as no...
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Nov 2018
Why CISOs should care about SD-WAN
We’ve spoken a lot about the benefits of transitioning an enterprise from MPLS to SD-WAN and the various options business owners have at their disposal when deciding between a full-blown SD-WAN or hybrid SD-WAN approach. But there is one crucial element of this migration that – surprisingly – doesn’t always...
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Oct 2018
Secure Network Aggregation Point
SNAP makes network transition easy! Get complete fl exibility and scalability across multiple network providers and seamless managed connectivity across varying technologies via a secure network aggregation point (SNAP). An Introduction to SNAP With the explosive growth in real-time applications, distributed workforces and cloud computing a company’s productivity has...
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Sep 2018
Checklist: How to evaluate your MPLS Service Provider?
In our previous blog, we spoke about the five business-boosting benefits of managed SD-WAN and left you with a point to ponder: does the rise of SD-WAN mean the immediate removal of MPLS? Well, yes and no. Yes, because more and more companies are moving away from MPLS-based technology, and...
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Sep 2018
MPLS Service Provider Checklist
Do you run an MPLS network to connect to your various branches? If so, you are likely wasting MPLS bandwidth backhauling Internet traffic. For many organisations in South Africa, a lot of their traffic is becoming internet bound due to increased cloud usage for cloud based applications like Office365, Microsoft...
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Jul 2018
Five business-boosting benefits of Managed SD-WAN
In a global SD-WAN market study released by Cato Networks in May last year, about 20% of more than 350 professionals surveyed around the globe said they are planning to deploy SD-WAN in the next 12 months. Roughly half of them were looking at either using a global service provider or a managed...
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Jun 2018
What is SD-WAN? Four key questions answered
During the recent Citrix Synergy 2018 conference we yet again saw how important SD-WAN – and particularly managed SD-WAN – is to enterprises who want to join the cloud revolution. Digital transformation of enterprises is an exciting, and inevitable, part of our industry and the more we service our clients and connect with...
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May 2018
PPS Network Transformation Case Study
Citrix SD-WAN helps South African financial and healthcare services company transition to the cloud and improve network security and reliability. For more than 75 years, Johannesburg-based PPS has provided tailor-made insurance, investment, and healthcare services to professionals such as doctors, dentists, accountants, lawyers, architects, and engineers. It is owned by its...
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Apr 2018
Unlock the powerful potential of SD-WAN
Welcome to the Intelys blog. Our Blog section will reflect the latest and greatest around the SD-WAN, Networking and Security industries as well as provide some thought-provoking insights to help take your enterprise to the next step in digital differentiation. Unlock the powerful potential of SD-WAN In a world where...
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Mar 2018
Benefits of Managed SD-WAN
With the growing trend towards using VoIP, video, and SaaS applications from the cloud, workers in branch offices need a solution to improve their experience. These applications use more bandwidth and their performance is sensitive to the quality of the WAN connection. As a result, IT organisation’s are increasingly...
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Feb 2018
Citrix: A simplified network for distributed enterprises
In the last decade two major technology trends have converged and are set to have a significant effect on corporate networks: virtual computing and the rise of cloud technology. Both of these trends dramatically increase the importance of the corporate network on business performance. The result is a significant increase...
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