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Maintain Visibility Into VPN Services to Make Better Decisions

The world as we know it has changed significantly. On an average day, companies worldwide depend on their Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for remote employees like sales, customer service reps, field technicians, and others, to connect back to corporate data centers to access business applications to perform their jobs. To provide insight, Paul Barrett joined Dave Vellante for a conversation around how IT professionals are tasked with the responsibility of maintaining business continuity and ensuring employees have access to the services and applications they need to do their jobs. This dynamic is placing a tremendous amount of emphasis and stress on VPN connections. This conversation explores virtual private network (VPN) service performance.

About the Author

Paul Barrett has made solving enterprise technology challenges with a high-touch mindset the focus of his 25-year career. As chief technology officer, Enterprise, for NETSCOUT, Barrett supports the company’s largest enterprise customers, which comprise nearly 85 percent of the Fortune 500. He also engages with government agency customers, including the four branches of the United States military. <br><br> A technology expert with global influence, Barrett is recognized for his wide-ranging knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, data center co-locations, Kubernetes architectures, big data analytics, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, real-time network analysis, unified communications, and software development. He also is an active participant in the drive to make standardization of international telecommunications the norm. <br><br> Barrett is a named inventor on 17 patent applications. He is a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the United Kingdom, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the United States.

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