SASE Roundup: Versa, Prosimo Share Studies on Application Performance, Multi-Cloud
… a compass for the future. While SASE has served them well during lockdown, it will also prove a major asset as they contemplate the move back to the office and toward hybrid working,” Wood said.
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Performance
In addition to worrying about security, businesses worry about performance. The Versa study identified video conferencing and collaboration apps as by far the most troublesome when it comes to performance and reliability. More than one in three (36%) respondents identified video and collaboration as a problem area. Financial services particularly struggled with video conferencing and collaboration apps.
Prosimo head of marketing Mehul Patel gave the example of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) apps, whose optimization process requires 15 different components.
“You need to understand the context of the type of application to really make sure you’re applying the right optimization techniques and even the right transit connectivity,” Patel said.
Multicloud
Prosimo’s report argued that businesses will find improved user-to-application performance if they utilize multicloud transit. Prosimo reported a 55% per route improvement in network transit latency when users took a multicloud route, compared to direct methods. Multicloud even bested the use of single-cloud transit by 45%.
That high performance comes with a drawback: complexity. To that point, Partners will need to help customers with security as well as observability.
“The value is definitely in using multicloud to deliver a better application experience. But just be cautious that when you get there, there are some cobwebs that will be uncovered as you go down that channel,” Patel said. “The benefits outweigh the complexity, but it is complex.”
Patel said customers struggling with a lack of expertise, particularly in cloud connectivity; therefore, a partner who can offer expertise in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform can provide the godsend they need.
“As a partner, the value of you saying, ‘Hey, we have AWS expertise in networking,’ or ‘We have Azure expertise in X,’ is going to be something that enterprises want,” Patel said.
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