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New ESG Study on Hybrid Cloud Adoption and Security

What Does the ESG Study Entail?

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) study is based on primary research and aims to effectively derive IT insights in the areas of hybrid cloud, data center as a service, and data center security.

ESG conducted a research survey of 200 IT decision-makers directly knowledgeable about their organizations’ cloud priorities and perceptions. They analyzed the results and have compiled key results in this paper.

You can use the findings provided in this paper to understand the latest trends and challenges in cloud adoption and inform your own hybrid/multi-cloud projects and data center security strategy.

What Areas of Research Are Covered in This Paper?

Through the IT-targeted survey, the ESG analysts look into the prevalence of hybrid applications and related challenges. The survey also seeks to determine the market demand for Data Center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) now and over the next 3 years. In addition, the paper investigates how important E-W security is considered and contrasts it with the current actual levels of East-West (E-W) security policy enforcement, discussing the potential reasons behind the gap.

Here is a sample chart showing respondents’ opinions on E-W security on a 5-point Likert scale.

Where Can I Access the Paper?

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WireGuard VPN Protocol Coming to a Linux Kernel Near You

The coming to the Linux kernel, much to the delight of Linux creator “Can I just once again state my love for it and hope it gets merged soon? Maybe the code isn’t perfect, but I’ve skimmed it, and compared to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it’s a work of art,” Torvalds enthused, on the OpenVPN). Another reason WireGuard is special is how it functions. Unlike the more complex competition, WireGuard functions in a similar fashion to SSH — by exchanging public keys. Once the keys have been exchanged and the connection made, there’s no need to manage connections or daemons, or be concerned about state or what’s going on under the hood. For those that are interested in what’s going on under the hood, WireGuard makes use of the Curve25519, Poly1305, SipHash24, Jason Donenfeld’s prettysleepy1 from 

Meraki Is Almost An Enterprise Solution

You may remember a three or so years ago when I famously declared that Meraki is not a good solution for enterprises. I know the folks at Meraki certainly haven’t. The profile for the hardware and services has slowly been rising inside of Cisco. More than just wireless with the requisite networking components, Meraki has now embraced security, SD-WAN, and even security cameras. They’ve moved into a lot of areas that customers have been asking about while also still trying to maintain the simplicity that Meraki is known for.

Having just finished up a Meraki presentation during Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the progress that Meraki has been making toward embracing their enterprise customer base. I’m not entirely convinced that they’ve made it yet, but the progress is starting to look good.

Playing for Scale

The first area where Meraki is starting to really make strides is in the scalability department. This video from Tech Field Day Extra is all about new security features in the platform, specifically with firewalls. Take a quick look:

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