If you turn the clock back ten years or more, you’ll find that the most common use of big network pipes back then was for data replication, usually for disaster recovery. Businesses used those pipes for near-constant replication of terabytes of data from a company’s primary data center to a secondary. These were the days when ALL of your applications ran in one place and served your users and customers from there. Today applications run everywhere. Digital transformers are heavily leveraging hybrid multicloud environments and digital leaders are taking greater advantage of the edge, which brings with it the benefits…

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