SD-WAN Supports More Purposeful Shift to Cloud
those insights. Assessing the security, compliance and performance needs of each application–and making sure the SD-WAN policies reflect everything correctly–needs to be a primary focus for IT departments.
SD-WAN is meant to be that integrated service that can simultaneously address security and performance needs. It will ensure highest performance for SaaS apps by determining both best performance and best cost paths. The one caution to consider is that when organizations are picking an SD-WAN provider, they should take time to understand the desired behavior requirements for customer-facing and critical applications. It’s important to have awareness of where they reside and their relative priority levels. This assessment will help allow businesses to best route each application, based on that prioritization and real-time service performance, as well as actual available bandwidth at any given time.
For each company, this is different. IT teams need to be keenly aware of:
- Where applications reside
- Where the users are located
- Who has access to what
- What the pervasive security rule is and where it is applied (Application level? Gateway level? HQ level?)
There is no one-size-fits-all. Your SD-WAN solution must allow the quickest access to cloud-based applications without sacrificing performance for security.
The Path Forward
The right SD-WAN solution will be sized for peak utilization as organizations return to a hybrid work environment and support super users in a home office, geographically distributed branch offices, mobile workers and third-party partners. For each business, the variables that play into this are going to be different, but the solution needs to be able to support all use cases.
The right SD-WAN solution also needs to provide easy expansion to all edges of the network. SD-WAN offers much more than just connecting branch offices to cloud services or the core network. SD-WAN can also run natively in every major public cloud environment, scale to support large data centers, sit in a home office and be deployed to most corners of the newly expanded network. It can then enable fast, optimized and secure connections from any user, no matter where they reside, to any application, no matter where it resides.
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