By now, most organizations have extended their IT infrastructure to the cloud. And many are using multiple clouds. ESG, in a recent webinar presented by CloudGenix and Palo Alto Networks, shared findings from a survey of 600 senior IT decision makers showing that 76% of respondents had already deployed multi-cloud environments, and nearly as many – 67% – were already using SaaS-delivered business applications.
ESG also talked about the challenges of not only ensuring network performance in these complex multi-cloud environments, but also making sure that SaaS-delivered apps are always on, are always secure, and always perform how employees need them to – especially employees in remote office locations.
In a traditional network architecture, applications are housed in an on-premise data center. Remote office workers access those apps via MPLS VPN connections. Routers enable the underlying network between geographically diverse locations, and firewalls deployed at both the central data center and at each remote office create a security perimeter.
But this approach simply doesn’t work in the world of cloud. Here’s why:
Many organizations have adopted SD-WAN solutions to solve for these issues, but they too present their own challenges. Most solutions require multiple hardware products for SD-WAN and security, which once again means more complexity and more cost. Some solutions that have separate roadmaps for features related to network and security, making it near impossible for an organization to simultaneously meet both networking and security needs.
So how can organizations cost-effectively and securely meet the needs of remote branch offices? In reality, overcoming the challenges presented by centralized network architecture or legacy SD-WANs means re-imagining remote office IT infrastructure. It needs to be cloud-delivered rather than based on complex hardware or software stacks, and:
The CloudGenix Autonomous SD-WAN uses global intelligence to deliver performance and security SLAs for all applications over any WAN-type. By providing app-policies aligned to business intent, direct access to multi-cloud and dev-ops frameworks, it delivers significant productivity gains and cost-savings compared to gen-1 SD-WAN alternatives.
Our new joint solution with Palo Alto Networks – and validated by ESG in the Secure SD-WAN: 7 Best Practices from Palo Alto Networks and CloudGenix webinar – combines CloudGenix Autonomous WAN with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, enabling organizations to deploy best-of-breed secure SD-WAN that is pre-integrated, requires no additional hardware or software to provision at the remote office, and lays the foundation for a zero-trust security architecture.
The joint secure SD-WAN solution enables organizations to:
To hear experts at Palo Alto and ESG talk more about this solution, as well as explain the 7 best practices for a secure SD-WAN, check out the on-demand webinar Secure SD-WAN: 7 Best Practices from Palo Alto Networks and CloudGenix now.
For a more in-depth look at Secure SD-WAN with CloudGenix and Prisma Access, watch a demo here.
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