How Partners Can Use SD-WAN to Reduce Multicloud Complexities
… compliance with key regulations. That is not true. Some providers may offer compliance features, but compliance is still the organization’s responsibility.
Another challenge comes with tracking data across multiple clouds. When customers use multiple clouds in their day to day operations, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine where data is being accessed from and stored. Highly mobile data, especially across dynamically scalable environments, can make the security and preservation of things like customer PII data extremely challenging.
How Partners Can Reduce Cloud Complexity with Secure SD-WAN
Using secure SD-WAN, partners can effectively address these and similar challenges their customers face when moving to the cloud. With secure SD-WAN solutions on their network, business traffic can be routed from the data center to the cloud, and even between multicloud-cloud environments, using optimized and encrypted connections. This helps reduce costs as organizations no longer need to rely on a static network topology to route their traffic. In addition, SD-WAN improves application performance across cloud environments by eliminating or compensating for networking bottlenecks.
Because SD-WAN is integrated with existing networks, it also helps to centralize operations, thereby decreasing network complexity and improving security. The increased visibility that comes as a result of a consistent secure SD-WAN deployment across a complex, multicloud-cloud infrastructure helps security teams coordinate their threat management processes. This reduces the impact that attacks have on their network. Enhanced visibility also supports compliance efforts as it enables organizations to easily monitor data usage across multiple clouds. And for organizations experiencing rapid growth, SD-WAN can be dynamically scaled to support their evolving traffic requirements. This becomes increasingly critical as more and more organizations begin to implement large-scale remote work programs.
SD-WAN Solves Multicloud Cloud Challenges
Without the proper resources in place, cloud connectivity can be an overwhelming challenge for many organizations. As more businesses turn to the cloud to stay competitive, it’s up to partners to make sure that customer cloud deployments meet the needs of their business while remaining in compliance. By leveraging SD-WAN, partners can best support their customers by providing an SD-WAN network solution that enhances application performance without increasing network complexity. With an integrated SD-WAN solution in place that can span even the most complex and distributed network environments, organizations can deploy and support multiple cloud environments while ensuring that their critical data and workloads are both consistently available and secure.
Jon Bove is the vice president of channel sales at Fortinet. He and his team are responsible for strategizing, promoting and driving the channel sales strategy for partners in the U.S. A 17-year veteran of the technology industry, Bove has held progressively responsible sales, sales leadership and channel leadership positions. Follow @Fortinet on Twitter or Bove on LinkedIn.
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