FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
‘SDN PROVIDES
MULTIPLE BENEFITS
THAT CAN BE
SUMMARISED BY
HAVING A NETWORK
THAT IS ABLE TO
SUPPORT THE MOST
MODERN DATA CENTRE
WORKLOADS AND
CREATE OPEX AND
CAPEX SAVINGS AT THE
SAME TIME.’
remote locations where business must
get done. For IT and business leaders,
SD-WAN offers cost-effectiveness,
agility, and levels of automation that
are essential when accommodating
dynamic business and application
requirements.
This new approach gives businesses the
ability to automate and simplify many
aspects of network configuration and
management across the hundreds or
thousands of remote sites that make
up a large enterprise. This prospect
is appealing to IT leaders not only
from a business agility and cost
reduction standpoint, but also from a
performance and control perspective.
Do right, SDWAN will mean that
network teams will have an easier time
managing finite network resources like
bandwidth, while ensuring application
SLAs are maintained, by steering
applications and other services over the
optimal network path.
The SDN technology market was
estimated to be worth $1.4 billion in
2015. One of the reasons is the trend
toward wider adoption of SD-WAN
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solutions, which is sure to continue in
2016 and beyond. And in the Middle
East, due to increased competition
within technology hubs in emerging
markets and the need for infrastructure
transformation, there is even more
scope for the integration of SD-WAN
products.
And while the market for an SDWAN solution begins to grow, the
requirements for an excellent SD-WAN
solution appear clearly:
• Optimisation capabilities for
on-premise and Cloud based
applications like Office 365 or
Salesforce.com.
• A network and application aware
path selection capability to direct
traffic on the appropriate network
(MPLS, Internet…).
• Dynamic tunnelling with central
control plane allowing secure
backhauling of branch traffic to the
corporate data centre across the
Internet.
• A simple interface to zScaler or
other cloud-based security services
enabling local Internet breakouts
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