For many systems administrators, choosing and managing a VPN system is often quite a headache. Inflexible clients, servers, and protocols often prevent VPN's from being smoothly integrated into an already functioning network. The fact that many VPN clients are installed on users' home computers, well out of the reach of the systems administration team, often means that troubleshooting and upgrading VPN systems is time consuming and a struggle for both admins and users. . . .
For many systems administrators, choosing and managing a VPN system is often quite a headache. Inflexible clients, servers, and protocols often prevent VPN's from being smoothly integrated into an already functioning network. The fact that many VPN clients are installed on users' home computers, well out of the reach of the systems administration team, often means that troubleshooting and upgrading VPN systems is time consuming and a struggle for both admins and users.

At the same time, the modern workplace continuously becomes more and more geographically dispersed. The "work from anywhere" idea continues to worm its way into the minds of more and more employees and managers. The forty hour work week, to many folks, sounds more and more like a pleasant vacation. Leaving "work at the office" is something more likely to be heard in a television drama from by-gone years than it is to be uttered in the modern workplace. VPN systems are a large part of what enables such "work anywhere, anytime" philosophies to come to life, and for many businesses, operating without a VPN evokes memories of office life in the days of mimeograph hegemony.

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