In part one of this blog I discussed the concerns companies may have when looking to deploy an SD-WAN. The advantages of SD-WAN are aplenty, yet many enterprises would...
In this day and age, most businesses don’t need to be convinced about going digital to enhance their agility. The more pressing question is how and when to make it a reality. Given the central role of the network in the age of the cloud-powered enterprise, more and more businesses are leveraging software defined (SD) networking to accelerate their digital transformation and boost their agility across all their operations.
The promise of the WAN evolution The cloud is well and truly here, and enterprises that are embracing it are able to generate new revenue streams from new business models, adopt more efficient business practices, and introduce more innovative ways of engaging with their customers. So, it’s no wonder that many are now moving mission-critical applications off-premise and into the cloud. Yet, as the production of cloud applications gathers speed, many enterprises haven’t been able to keep pace with the change. Their existing WANs are often too slow, inflexible, expensive, and not designed for optimal cloud performance. While many might be keen to rethink their network and go hybrid with an
SD-WAN overlay, any changes to this critical infrastructure raises some fundamental questions:
- How painful will the deployment be and what will happen to the existing infrastructure?
- How secure can any edge-to-edge network really be?
- What visibility will IT decision makers have over the entire network? How can they guarantee service levels?
- Will the solution deployed be future proofed for technology innovations that might emerge further down the line?
- And crucially, how tightly integrated can the underlying new hybrid network and SD-WAN overlay really be?
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