FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
TAJ ELKHAYAT
Regional Vice President,
Middle East and Africa at
Riverbed Technology
‘IDEAL SD-WAN
MANAGEMENT
CONSOLES EXPOSE
TO THE USERS AN
INTUITIVE INTERFACE
AND MANAGEMENT
PLANE BASED ON HIGH
LEVEL ABSTRACTIONS
LIKE APPLICATIONS,
SITES, UPLINKS OR
NETWORKS THAT
MATCHES THE WAY
THEY SEE THEIR IT
ENVIRONMENT.’
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without requiring further investment
in on-premise Internet security
appliances.
• Inbound QoS to manage local
Internet breakouts and protect
business Internet against surges in
recreational Internet.
• Deep and wide visibility on all assets
interconnected by the SD-WAN with
holistic visibility on network usage,
performance and integration with
end-user experience monitoring of
on-premise and SaaS applications.
Ideal SD-WAN management
consoles expose to the users an
intuitive interface and management
plane based on high level
abstractions like applications,
sites, uplinks or networks that
matches the way they see their
IT environment. Ideal SD-WAN
solutions shall rely on a control
plane designed to support intent
based configuration that provides
a translation of global parameters
into local policies.
In addition, a proper SD-WAN central
management console is one that
marks the start of an era of dramatic
improvement of manageability and
usability of control capabilities. While
some capabilities like optimisation
are praised for their ease of use, for
years, control capabilities like QoS, path
selection or VPN that the industry has
delivered have been a nightmare to
manage.
Thanks to SD-WAN, customers should
be able to implement new, more
efficient, configuration and change
management workflows that make
hybrid-networking capabilities really
usable. SD-WAN has the potential
to deliver to the business, the
performance and agility they need for
business critical applications, while
controlling and reducing network
costs at the same time.
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