Matt Conran
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Matt Conran has more than 19 years of networking industry with entrepreneurial start-ups, government organizations and others. He is a lead Architect and successfully delivered major global greenfield service provider and data center networks. Core skill set includes advanced data center, service provider, security and virtualization technologies. He loves to travel and has a passion for landscape photography.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Matt Conran and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
The modern data center and the rise in open-source IP routing suites
Open source enables passionate people to come together and fabricate work of phenomenal quality. This is in contrast to a single vendor doing everything.
Open architecture and open source – The new wave for SD-WAN?
As networking continues to evolve, you certainly don't want to break out a forklift every time new technologies are introduced. Open architecture would allow you to replace the components of a system, and give you more flexibility to...
Performance-Based Routing (PBR) – The gold rush for SD-WAN
The inefficiency factor in the case of traditional routing is one of the main reasons why SD-WAN is really taking off.
Zero-trust: microsegmentation networking
Microsegmentation gives administrators the control to set granular policies in order to protect the application environment.
Software-defined perimeter: Identity-centric enforced network perimeter
Traditional VPNs no longer cut it.
Named data networking: Stateful forwarding plane for datagram delivery
Reinventing smart routing and dumb forwarding.
Named data networking: names the data instead of data locations
Will NDN kill the cloud, just like content delivery networks (CDN) kill latency?
The role of open source in networking
SD-WAN vendors use open source as the foundation of their solutions and then add additional functionality over the baseline.
The cloud-based provider: Not your grandfather’s MNS
Ideally, meeting the business objectives of speed, agility and cost containment boil down to two architectural approaches: the legacy telco versus the cloud-based provider.
Zero trust: The transition from legacy to cloud-native
To undergo the transition from legacy to cloud-native application environments you need to employ zero trust.
Can TLS 1.3 and DNSSEC make your network blind?
DNS & ISN encryption are likely to present numerous problems to the network operations, optimization and SD-WAN vendors.
Getting smarter about managing the SD-WAN last-mile
New last-mile management services eliminate key challenge to SD-WAN deployment.
Zero-trust security adds necessary ingredients
Let's face it: VPNs are no longer in vogue. Users do not want to spend the time setting them up, and network admins are increasingly moving to a zero-trust model, which ensures a high level of security while empowering users to work...
The future of cloud interconnects
Mission critical cloud applications require sharp elbows.
Self-healing SD-WAN removes the drama of high-availability planning
No more complex high-availability decision making.
Identity awareness: it’s more than just a packet
Routing must reflect business context.
The WAF backed by artificial intelligence (AI)
Web application firewalls backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning are beginning to surface as major successes against DDoS attacks and the application DDoS world.
Zero Trust Networking (ZTN): don’t trust anything
I don’t even want you to knock on my door! Let’s craft a new story.